a He or a She? Rhode Island Red

[jefra]

OK. Don't know if this is a he or a she. It's the bolder of the two birds that i got as peeps last spring. I assumed they were sisters, but I just don't know anymore.

and for contrast, this is the sister...

thanks!

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Looks just like my two girls!

 

[cheapcheap_jeepjeep]

They look like my girls too and my reds have a good size comb and wattles too.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

I would add that the one at the top is closer to laying than the one on the bottom. Notice how her comb is brighter red than the one on the bottom? I'd be watching for her to be visiting the nest box soon!

 

[jefra]

ahhh - very interesting cause when i went to pick that first one up today she did the whole low back, wings splayed, submissive thing that my silkie did when she was laying. So good to know. She's always making some kind of low long clucking noise - not quite a growl but much noisier than the others who contentedly just quietly cluck. Would they mature at different rates?

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Yup...RIR pullets....I've found that each bird matures differently...

Tuff

 

[aran]

sorry to be contradictory to everyone else but i reckon that top bird is a roo...our RIR roo looks a heck of lot like that!

 

[Rooster01]

I think both of them are hens.

 

[lostinthewoods]

i would say they're both hens.

my RIR roo looks nothing like that....he has a much bigger/brighter comb and wattles.

They look very nice btw!

 

[kaiazoe]

I Have 2 RIR hens and they both look like the top one!