18-Week-Old Chicken With Invisible Wattles: Breed? Gender?

[Backyard Dacks]

Hey everybody, attached are photos of Moe, an 18-week-old chicken. Is it normal for its wattles to be barely visible? Does that just mean it's a late-blooming hen? And can anybody identify the breed (I think it's a cross-breed; I wanted to know the breeds of its parents).
Thank you!

 

[britesidefarm]

Some hens don’t get the large wattles/comb until they are really close to laying. Some not at all! Yours looks like it could have either Australorp, or Minorca in her, but time will tell once she lays an egg!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Looks like a hen. Not sure of breed. Hard to tell, especially if she is a cross breed. Black is a dominant color, so one parent at least is likely black, perhaps an australorp? Wild guess at best!

 

[NuggetTheChicken]

I see a pea comb, black feathering and black feet. Could be a jersey giant mix

 

[The Happster]

She's a female.

Where did you get her?

 

[thepick4uchicks]

Hey everybody, attached are photos of Moe, an 18-week-old chicken. Is it normal for its wattles to be barely visible? Does that just mean it's a late-blooming hen? And can anybody identify the breed (I think it's a cross-breed; I wanted to know the breeds of its parents).
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I would guess an Australopithecus mixed with a Maran maybe but that is a very uneducated guess or maybe and Australorp and a Orpingtons but I don’t know all that stuff about breeding and cross breeding at all. The feet makes me think Orpington cause they look like mine but the bird itself is too small to be full blooded Orpington. It also has too small of a comb at 18 weeks for a female Orpington even. Mine are 16 weeks and not laying either because they don’t until around 24 weeks at times and theirs are way larger than yours in the photo. My birds are huge in comparison already both combs and in body as well as feet. They are some piglets.

 

[The Happster]

I would guess an Australopithecus mixed with a Maran maybe

Yes, I can see that would create an interesting mix.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

Yes, I can see that would create an interesting mix.

I do believe my hand is dead with carpal tunnel at 3:54 in the morning and a “type o” was apparently in order. Please accept my apologies. This time I have missed more than the date of the original post from like sometime in 2005! Lol! I really had a crossbreed there that was way beyond a very uneducated guess for a chicken!

 

[casportpony]

Is it normal for its wattles to be barely visible?

Yes, it's normal, I have some like that.

 

[JedJackson]

Possibly a Sumatra mix. Possibly an Easter egger or black Ameraucana crossed with something else.