Is this a rooster?

[SwampPrincessChick]

Ok

Wait, how thick are those legs? And do you see any pointed saddle feathers or sickles growing in? It might be a pullet going into lay if it does not have thick legs and pointed feathers, but that face is telling more cockerel than anything.

 

[John Burch]

Wait, how thick are those legs? And do you see any pointed saddle feathers or sickles growing in? It might be a pullet going into lay if it does not have thick legs and pointed feathers, but that face is telling more cockerel than anything.

The legs aren’t too thick. A little bit for saddle feathers but not too much. What do you mean by sickles

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

The legs aren’t too thick. A little bit for saddle feathers but not too much. What do you mean by sickles

Sickle feathers are the long, pointed, downward-curving feathers that are specific to male chickens. They resemble the farming tool called a sickle, hence the name.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

If you're able to take photos of the back and near tail from top and full side view that would help some be able to id those specific feathers

 

[John Burch]

Yeah well I just checked and we think it injured one of the other baby hens so we think it’s definitely a rooster. There was blood on the hens head and blood but not a wound on the roosters chest

 

[John Burch]

Thanks for all the suggestions

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So ... sickle feathers are in the saddle area?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Typos, ugh! Sorry.

 

[John Burch]

Typos, ugh! Sorry.

Yes

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

So ... sickle feathers are in the saddle area?

Sickle feathers hang over the tail feathers.