Do pullets ever have curled tail tips?

[Chickassan]

My Kiwi had a feather like that until she lost it in a hen and run accident.
Youv'e got a lovely lady.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

She finally lost the weird curve and looks like a pullet! lol, I can finally stop suspecting her of roostery. lol
I'm curious to see what color eggs she will lay since I have no idea what the EE hen crossed with!

 

[FowlWitch]

Just want to say I have an EE who had sickle feathers as a chick (but not as pronounced as you hen's) that is definitely a hen She still has gently curled feathers around her tail. I'll try to post a pic tomorrow

 

[Frazzemrat1]

I hate to say, but those looked like regular tail feathers to me. Most of my hens had curved tail feathers when they were pullets, especially before the first molt. Once the other juvenile tail feathers start to fall out, it can make it look suddenly like a male tail... But as young as the pullet was at that time, if it had been male, it wouldn't have sickle feathers anyway, as that's an adult male trait.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I hate to say, but those looked like regular tail feathers to me. Most of my hens had curved tail feathers when they were pullets, especially before the first molt. Once the other juvenile tail feathers start to fall out, it can make it look suddenly like a male tail... But as young as the pullet was at that time, if it had been male, it wouldn't have sickle feathers anyway, as that's an adult male trait.

I'm sure you're right considering she's definitely a pullet, lol. In my personal experience raising chicks I had never seen that in any of my pullets though so I felt it was worth asking and now I know!
I've always taken a ton of pictures of my chickens as they grow to hopefully help me catch little differences in different breeds to determine gender. This was just a new one for me!

 

[FowlWitch]

Just want to say I have an EE who had sickle feathers as a chick (but not as pronounced as you hen's) that is definitely a hen She still has gently curled feathers around her tail. I'll try to post a pic tomorrow

This is her

 

[Victoriaelizibeth]

She finally lost the weird curve and looks like a pullet! lol, I can finally stop suspecting her of roostery. lol
I'm curious to see what color eggs she will lay since I have no idea what the EE hen crossed with!

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Wow she has beautiful coloring!!!

 

[juliacauthen]

I've got a pullet just like her! She is a Black Australorp and has very prominent sickle tail feathers, there aren't very many but they are very sickle-shaped. I'll go take a picture of her. She is 16 weeks and also tries to crow a little but has no thin, sickle-shaped saddle feathers. I am desperately hoping that means she's a she!

 

[Laprince89]

I have to make one last post on here...lol! The sickle feathers have started to grow even more the past few days...she's now almost 12 weeks old. I still don't trust this chicken not to turn into a rooster no matter what everyone here keeps telling me! These sickle feathers are screaming rooster and it's killing me! She's next to two pullets that I'm NOT questioning. lolView attachment 1788776 View attachment 1788777 View attachment 1788775 View attachment 1788774

Did she end up a roo? I have a chicken doing the same thing to me.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Did she end up a roo? I have a chicken doing the same thing to me.

She was a super sweet little hen and I've had two other Easter Eggers do this to me since, both were hens!