Pullet or Cockrell?

[laurapotts1]

Hello! This is my first post so I hope I’m doing it correctly I’m raising my first chickens and bought 5 Golden Laced Wyandotte pullets but am hoping for 1 rooster.. I’m wondering what people think of these 2 chicks.. the darker one (red arrow) has more developed waddles that are turning red, and the one with more golden feathers (blue arrow) is much heavier than the others with huge legs and a more upright tail.. they’re both 5 weeks old. Any thoughts?

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Both look like pullets. Wyandottes pink up early a cockerel would be pretty noticeable at 5 weeks.

 

[SilverBirds]

I agree, both are pullets.

 

[laurapotts1]

Thanks! Good to know.. I have a friend that I may be able to get a rooster from once these guys are grown

 

[The Moonshiner]

That's a tough one for me.
I was thinking there's a chance blue arrow could be a cockerel but neither have the correct comb type so that's throwing me.

 

[Phantom-Brahma]

Both are pullets

 

[BDutch]

Standard Wyandotte’s should have rosecombs in my country. The Wyandottes my neighbour had were hard to distinguish because of the flat combs.

https://www.ourcoop.com/news/rural-...adaptable,better than some lightweight breeds.

Are you sure these are single comb Wyandottes? Or maybe a mix between Wyandotte's and something else.
Anyway I think the comb of the chick on the first photo is too red and too large to be girl.

 

[laurapotts1]

Standard Wyandotte’s should have rosecombs in my country. The Wyandottes my neighbour had were hard to distinguish because of the flat combs.

https://www.ourcoop.com/news/rural-lifestyle/a-guide-to-wyandotte-chickens#:~:text=Wyandotte chickens are highly adaptable,better than some lightweight breeds.

Are you sure these are single comb Wyandottes? Or maybe a mix between Wyandotte's and something else.
Anyway I think the comb of the chick on the first photo is too red and too large to be girl.

Yeah the first chick’s comb is much more red than the others.. three of the 5 do actually have rose combs, these are the only 2 chicks with combs like this. I’ve heard that can sometimes happen with this breed.. but I got them from a feed store so I guess it’s also possible they’re mixed

 

[BDutch]

I suppose your chicks are not pure-bred indeed.

Do you know anything about genetics?

Rose comb, a standard characteristic of several breeds and varieties of fowl, results from the action of a completely dominant autosomal gene, R.

Mixed with single combs the offspring of RR x single comb (ss) shows only rosecomb in offspring. But crossing a second generation you get on average 3 x rosecombs an 1 single comb chick.

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv...tional_overdominance_in_the_domestic_fowl.pdf

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Pullets.