Help identify if a roo or hen - barred rock.?

[Feathers12]

We aren’t sure if this 8 week old is a pullet or roo. It is crowing but doesn’t have wattles or much of a comb yet ? Please help!

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

I agree, probably a cockerel

 

[MysteryChicken]

We aren’t sure if this 8 week old is a pullet or roo. It is crowing but doesn’t have wattles or much of a comb yet ? Please help!

Cuckoo Easter Egger, or Olive Egger not Barred Rock.
Most likely a cockerel.

 

[SilverBirds]

Cuckoo Easter Egger, or Olive Egger not Barred Rock.
Most likely a cockerel.

Agreed.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Agreed not a barred rock.
Looks suspiciously like a cockerel and if it's crowing it's surely a cockerel.

 

[Feathers12]

Thank you all for your replies.

 

[LaceyJune]

Can't really tell for sure without the tail, but the comb and wattles tell me pullet. My bantam hen even crowd once she got close to laying, but if it does turn out to be a pullet she is just displaying her place in the flock (this usually is shown when they hit machurity) And I do agree with the other fellow BYC memebers on your chicken's breed mishap, it looks either olive or possible Easter egger, just in a barred color variety. How old is this chicken? And how did the crow sound?

 

[Feathers12]

It is a mix of Plymouth Rock and ? Possibly Easter egger. The crowing sounded to us like a rooster crow. But we thought the same thing , that it looks more like a pullet but sounds like a rooster.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It is a mix of Plymouth Rock and ? Possibly Easter egger. The crowing sounded to us like a rooster crow. But we thought the same thing , that it looks more like a pullet but sounds like a rooster.

I agree with this. The barring says pullet to me but the crowing is odd. Can you upload a vid of the crow to YouTube and post the link to it here? Thanks!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Barring is carried on the Z chromosome. The barring on male barred rocks us lighter because they are double barred (ZZ, they inherited a barred gene from both the hen and the rooster). Females are single barred because they can only carry one copy for barring (ZW).

If a double barred rooster is bred to a non-barred hen, then ALL of the chicks, male or female, will be single barred.

Since this chick has muffs and a pea comb, which barred rocks do not have, it cannot possibly be a barred rock. Without knowing the phenotype of both parents we can't use the darkness of the barring to help determine gender.

The wattles are going to be smaller than a barred rock because the genes associated with the muffs and pea comb result in smaller wattles.

The comb isn't super red, but if this bird is crowing at 8 weeks I'm gonna say it's probably a cockerel.