Green Queen 14 week - rooster or hen?!

[Jml387]

Hello, I purchased a set of all female chicks from Meyer hatchery this summer. Today they are 14 weeks old exactly and my green queen was crowing at dawn repeatedly! It startled me and now I’m suspicious she’s actually a rooster

I can’t find any online pictures of what a green queen rooster would look like BUT she’s by far my biggest chicken and the meanest she picks on all the other hens.

 

[nuthatched]

Not a green queen maybe a blr wyandotte cockerel

 

[WingItRanch]

The pictures are very blurry when you zoom in so I can't see the feather shapes but I can tell you right now that's a cockerel. The comb is very red for only 14 weeks. Pullets would still be pinkish until they get closer to laying eggs.

 

[fluffycrow]

Cockerel, definitely. Too blurry for me to make breed predictions. I will say that I think I can make out a beard, but that's about it, and I may be seeing something that isn't there

 

[Jml387]

Oh no now I’m really worried! I’ll post some closer pics when I get home, but now I’m curious why no one thinks it’s a green queen? Is it common for hatcheries to send the wrong breed? All my other breeds are accounted for so she has to be a green queen but I know they are a newer hybrid so maybe that’s the confusion?

 

[WingItRanch]

Oh no now I’m really worried! I’ll post some closer pics when I get home, but now I’m curious why no one thinks it’s a green queen? Is it common for hatcheries to send the wrong breed? All my other breeds are accounted for so she has to be a green queen but I know they are a newer hybrid so maybe that’s the confusion?

Green queens are mixes. Basically Easter Eggers. It's possible they will look different with each hatchery depending on what breeds they use for the mix. Once you get a better pic, we can try to tell the breed!

 

[Ecarroll]

Easter Egger cockerel is my guess

 

[Jml387]

Update on possible green queen rooster

 

[WingItRanch]

Oh yeah. That's a cockerel for sure. Might be a green queen.

 

[The Good Grumble]

The last pics show saddle feathers, the first are blurry. You have a cockerel.