Wheaten ameraucana 2 week cockerel

[jjjennejjj]

This chick is only 2 weeks old, but is there ANY way it's a pullet? I would guess 100% roo, but I don't know why people say to wait. Do birds that exhibit male qualities morph to female qualities later?

 

[nuthatched]

Two early to say yet.

 

[GoosesGeeses]

You have to wait a few weeks, at very least if you had another same age same breed to compare it to, sometimes you can tell because males have smaller feathers, because they grow slower

 

[Yardmom]

Sometimes chicks have physical features visible to the eye that show they are male. More often than not they don't. This chick does not have any visual signs such as a red and large comb compared to others of the breed.
Feathering differences can be genetic. There is no way to follow the genetic line unless you have several generations related to this bird.

 

[debid]

That one is looking dark and I would expect it's a male.

I still won't say it's 100% yet. It isn't splotchy, after all. By the time the chest feathers arrive, though, it's abundantly clear on these dimorphic patterns.