Gold Laced Wyandotte 4 weeks. Rooster???

[alibabba]

I don't know much...But this is different than the others...

Hoping an expert can take a look and let me know if this is a rooster.

I have a SLW that I adore. She is fat and fun, and sprints to come see me.


-I wanted to raise a GLW to add to the beautiful moving lawn decoration collection. I ordered 6....to raise and sell the rest as pullets.

This one started looking "different" a week ago. Feathers are a mess, tiny little shoulder feathers, in the picture I see wattles, big yellow legs..

I am excited! Or is it a pullet?





ETA. first pic has a for sure pullet...unless the I am really really really confused

 

[ragnarok100]

My GLW on the left gave me cause to wonder due to the large red comb. I didn't think she was going to be a "he" but that comb really threw me at first. I guess lesser quality hatchery stock can throw single combs vice rose combs every now and then. She turned out beautiful anyway but for awhile I thought I had a rooster.

 

[alibabba]

It's still looking different. Way better colors on the feathers it does have. Tail is still not so much, going on 6 weeks.

The behavior is different too.

1. Last in the coop every night.

2. First to come peck my bending over bottom...and investigate what I am doing. I can see why people go all gaga over their ""sweet friendly" roosters and then develop a problem.

With all of them..."I am a tree"....except that I will push you off, and not engage further. I'm not going to start bad habits, just in case I keep him or for the family who might want a pair.

Still could turn out to be a pullet, but I seriously doubt it. At least he's nice looking...I think.

Thanks for all of the input! Much appreciated.

 

[ashncarson]

Any update on your chick?

 

[alibabba]

Any update on your chick?

Yep, ill get a pic tomorrow, He is still acting like a boss. First to check me out, first to peck my bum, last in the coop. And....little bumps on sides of his comb. That's the giveaway right?

His tail is still a mess. But his coloring is better than all the girls. I don't want to breed Wyandottes, and I don't want to eat him, I am pretty desensitized to them because its a big group, but he stands out and I looked in his eyes, which are beautiful (big mistake).

Hope I can find a home for him. I have some straight runs coming this week. I will be tougher... I like soup. I like chicken soup alot.

 

[alibabba]

In the first picture his stance says boy. If he is , he is a beauty - I can see if you looked in his eyes you'd be sold on keeping him.

Thank you! So good, that GLW's you can tell by about 2 weeks for sure...and don't look at them if you're a soft heart and need to sell, rehome or eat them.


We have looked...and considered each other many times over these past weeks. That's how those bad boys get ya, with their soulful eyes....yet another thread. lol

( I don't spend as much time as I imagined I would with them, it's kids baseball season, argh) But he is always right up to me.

I'm new to chicks, so I guess this changes like human babies, but his eyes are green, and very soulful

 

[junebuggena]

Still not bright pink yet, so it might still be a girl.

 

[Michael OShay]

That's an awful large comb for 4 weeks (although it isn't bright red) and very think legs. I'm leaning toward cockerel, but would post its pic again in about 3 weeks.

 

[alibabba]

Thanks guys! It just looks so completely different than the others. These are hatchery.

If it came from a different bin or something, so different parents could that make such a visual difference in development? It will be easy to keep an eye on it over the next few weeks, it's so different.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Looks like a cockerel to me.