What Gender is This?

[adgedge]

Can anyone tell me which gender this Barred Rock chicken is? It is about 4 months old.

 

[samswrld1]

Looks like a rooster

 

[ohju1ia]

My 15 week old barred rocks just started developing waffles and their faces are barely red. I don't know much about the "saddle" feathers, that the roo should have at this age, but I don't see them.
Lol so basically I'm useless. It could be either

 

[ohju1ia]

I wish they were developing waffles. I meant waddles.

 

[ohju1ia]

Here's a link to a threadhttps://www.backyardchickens.com/t/393183/barred-rock-roo-hen-differences

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

That's a cockerel. See the long, skinny feathers starting to come in and curve down in front of his tail? Those are saddle feathers.

I wish they were developing waffles. I meant waddles.

I think mine should make my waffles. That would be awesome!

 

[juliechick]

I wish they were developing waffles. I meant waddles.

The correct term is wattles. But waffles would be nice.

The bird looks like a hen to me. Are you sure of the age?

 

[Fred's Hens]

Can anyone tell me which gender this Barred Rock chicken is? It is about 4 months old.

Part of the difficulty you may have had in sexing this bird is that it isn't a Barred Rock. It is a barred mix of some kind and may even have Dominique or Barred Rock blood, but the barring isn't crisp, the tail has a white splotch and shows some Mediterranean influence, the legs on a BR should be bright yellow at this age, while the bird shown in the photo has white/pink legs. The wings are not indicative of a BR. Sexing BRs is pretty straight forward but they need to be much closer bred to the standard for the feature identification to be reliable. If the bird is a pleasure to you, that is all that matters.

 

[adgedge]

Thank you for your observations. We wondered about the color of it's legs. That makes sense.

So perhaps we will just have to wait and see?

 

[bornnraised]

looks like a rooster