Wyandotte rooster or hen?

Wyandotte rooster or hen?

  • Roo

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Hen

    Votes: 6 85.7%

  • Total voters
    7

Fluckadoodledoooo

In the Brooder
Dec 3, 2019
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4BEC8F16-BA0F-469C-B7B0-5F6079B2C61E.jpeg Hello! I’m very new to raising chickens I have two ameracaunas and one Wyandotte that I got together the two others are very obviously hens but this one was so different in temperament (skittish, unfriendly and talkative) that we assumed it was a too. Because I have just recently bought a hen that we thought was a rooster because she crowed and didn’t lay only to be informed that it was a hen who had chosen to be a rooster I decided I wanted to check out Wyandotte hens and roosters to see if I was right in thinking it was a roo. Now I’m convinced it’s a Hen. This was the chicken at ten weeks and I’ll upload recent ones at twenty! Wondering if anyone else has any guesses? 25673E3B-9147-4862-855B-B8B054C28E51.jpeg
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No way she's a cockerel. She's definitely a pullet. Those are very female saddle feathers, not a single male characteristic to her.
Incidentally, she'll be a pullet until she's a year old. Likewise, males are cockerels until a year old when they're known as roosters.

To make her friendly, as suggested above, I'd break out the meal worms. I also use a special call when I feed treats to my chickens. They come running! And even the new members to the flock learn the behavior!
 

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