Whiting True Green - Is it a Hen or Roo??

[Rac-Mac]

A little time has passed...was it a roo or pullet?
I ordered WTB & WTG- am very interested because I have one that is questionable as well. I’m at 13 weeks. Should I know by now?

 

[Stormie80]

If I can count, and that is questionable these days, the WTG is a very fancy girl at 14 weeks old! I think the females can be very questionable looking compared to chickens of other breeds since the Whiting's were originally bred for the fly fishing industry. My WTB also had the similarly shaped and type feathers, but her comb was never very big and in partridge coloring, not the WTG's copper red. She does have a heavy full volume of gorgeous hackle feathers and along with a beard. They are both very beautiful!

 

[Stormie80]

Well, Ginger is still a very fancy looking chicken, and she lays a pretty green egg! She has a huge comb and wattles too, but she was my first hen to lay at 19 weeks! My husband continued to ask me if she was a rooster right up until she laid that first egg this week!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Woohoo eggs!!!

 

[cstephens1987]

I'm leaning cockerel on the true green and the Wyandotte.... FYI.

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking

 

[cstephens1987]

View attachment 1832065 Well, Ginger is still a very fancy looking chicken, and she lays a pretty green egg! She has a huge comb and wattles too, but she was my first hen to lay at 19 weeks! My husband continued to ask me if she was a rooster right up until she laid that first egg this week!

Wow, that's crazy. I would've thought male on those first pics for sure

 

[Stormie80]

LOL both Ginger and Silver are pretty bossy!! Maybe why they were so red early on. I expect Silver to start laying any day now. I have a blue cochin hen and rooster who are both equally pink/red at 8 weeks, definatley a boy and girl, the 3rd hen is only pink and more timid such that the other two will boss her around.