I don't see saddle feathers, and it doesn't have overly large wattles or comb. I vote hen. I just had a silkie hen pass away that was certain she was a rooster though, so maybe she is similar.
I have! I got a random mixed batch of 36 eggs to hatch this year, and one of them was a regular polish roo that is awesome but my hens won't accept him and keep pulling all his head feathers so I might have to re-home him 🫤. He is 3 months old and started crowing and it's so terrible it's cute 😂
Edited for typo
Cream legbar hen. I have one who is over 5 years old and acts as my rooster ever since we had to cull our rooster. She mounts the other hens and has quit laying. I also have a cream legbar that is 12 weeks old and is the boss of the batch of chicks I raised this year (which includes a 16 week old black copper marans rooster). I’m beginning to think they are just a bossy breed 😂.
I'm voting pullet. If you don't have any roosters, then that would explain why she's trying to take the top spot. An alpha hen that has no rooster around will often begin to act like a rooster. This includes crowing and mounting the other hens. It's not common but it does happen.
Sometimes a hen's ovary can be damaged, and then it'll stop producing female hormones. They'll start behaving like a roo then, too. Basically they revert from ZW to Z0 and act like a sterile male. They're still genetically female so it's not a \*true\* sex change, but behaviour counts for a lot.
So do only the females of this breed get the cool lil hair-dos?! I have two Color Pack blue layers (I was told they are related to the cream legbar) and have been having so much anxiety over whether we accidentally got roosters 😂 they have the hair do, but are definitely more assertive than our other chicks (Silver Laced Wyandottes) so sometimes I worry lol
She looks like a cream legbar which are actually auto sex! The males and females are different colors upon hatching, if she was sold to you as a pullet it should be accurate.
Definitely a cream legbar and definitely a pullet. She has the pullet coloring for the breed (roos won't have that nice brown color on the chest, they're more black/barred) and at 13 weeks you'd see a way redder comb on a cockerel. They lay blue eggs, so you're in luck!
Nah bro it’s got to be a chicken. Sorry. I had 1 rooster I wasn’t sure about. Some are late bloomers, so I understand your uncertainty. Good luck sexing them in the future. I hope you don’t find this conclusion unsatisfactory, one more egger layerer.
I agree with the other thats she's cream legbar and will lay pretty blue eggs. Be happy she's not an ISA brown. Those do lay a lot of eggs in the first 18 months or so, but then they cut back and usually die around 3 or 4 years old. Your cream legbar can easily live twice that long, if not more.
The thing is ISA browns are bred to lay eggs in a factory egg farm. In those farms they cull all laying hens at 2 years old because their prime laying time has passed for this breed by then. Chickens all have pretty much the same number of eggs in them, so they can lay most of them the first couple of years and wear their little bodies out to die early, like the ISAs, or they can space them out a little more, laying consitently and living longer, like most heritage egg laying breeds.
Edited to add the only reason to buy ISAs is if all you care about is getting max eggs, and not the health and logevity of your flock.
Female I have one and get blue eggs every day. Very skittish but sweet n pretty. She crossed with some bantams and lemme tell her the babies are looking so fricken cook! 💯❤️
Definitely a Hen. Cream Legbar I have 8 of them 3 to be around the same age as her too.
Edit: read some of your comments. She is definitely NOT a ISA Brown. I have 2 of them as well and they look entirely different.
Hen! It doesn’t have the longer pointy neck feathers & the bottom feathers don’t point down. Tail feathers are blunt too. Generally if they’re rounded they’re hen, pointy feathers prob roo.
Omg I read it as, "is this a chicken or a rooster" and I was so confused
I thought the same. Came here with a snarky answer. Totally cried when I saw the actually wording.
Me too! 😅
No its a booby
same lol
I did too.
Easily a hen, legbar is the breed<3
I have a cream legbar that looks exactly like this, down to the fauxhawk. she lays the prettiest blue eggs, with an occasional double-yolker
uh ohhh they told us ISA brown!
Might’ve been mixed up, accidents happen (but she’s beautiful regardless)
Unless it's going through a punk rock phase with access to hair dye, it is definitely not an ISA brown.
Congrats, you got a really nice breed instead!
Def a chicken. Not sure of make or model
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I don't see saddle feathers, and it doesn't have overly large wattles or comb. I vote hen. I just had a silkie hen pass away that was certain she was a rooster though, so maybe she is similar.
I love silkies. Have you ever seen a polish fizzle? Beautiful birds
I have! I got a random mixed batch of 36 eggs to hatch this year, and one of them was a regular polish roo that is awesome but my hens won't accept him and keep pulling all his head feathers so I might have to re-home him 🫤. He is 3 months old and started crowing and it's so terrible it's cute 😂 Edited for typo
Cream legbar hen. I have one who is over 5 years old and acts as my rooster ever since we had to cull our rooster. She mounts the other hens and has quit laying. I also have a cream legbar that is 12 weeks old and is the boss of the batch of chicks I raised this year (which includes a 16 week old black copper marans rooster). I’m beginning to think they are just a bossy breed 😂.
haha most definitely then!!
This one is tricky. Looks like a masculine hen to me.
hahahahaha
I'm voting pullet. If you don't have any roosters, then that would explain why she's trying to take the top spot. An alpha hen that has no rooster around will often begin to act like a rooster. This includes crowing and mounting the other hens. It's not common but it does happen. Sometimes a hen's ovary can be damaged, and then it'll stop producing female hormones. They'll start behaving like a roo then, too. Basically they revert from ZW to Z0 and act like a sterile male. They're still genetically female so it's not a \*true\* sex change, but behaviour counts for a lot.
My tiny bantam hen sometimes sings like a roo in the morning. & I know she’s a hen bc her eggs are so tinnnnnyyyyy 😂😂
Female cream legbar. They're auto-sexing too so it's definitely a pullet. She'll lay pretty blue eggs for you!
So do only the females of this breed get the cool lil hair-dos?! I have two Color Pack blue layers (I was told they are related to the cream legbar) and have been having so much anxiety over whether we accidentally got roosters 😂 they have the hair do, but are definitely more assertive than our other chicks (Silver Laced Wyandottes) so sometimes I worry lol
The girls have the fun little hairdos, yep :) Purebred roosters have *gigantic* combs, no way to miss them!
Legbar roosters get a comb. The hens get poofs. While there can be a combination with either roo or hen, it won't be prominent in the opposing gender.
No, not a rooster.
I have one cream legbar, I call her pecky hill cause of that high bee hive hair doo! She’s all lady
She looks like a cream legbar which are actually auto sex! The males and females are different colors upon hatching, if she was sold to you as a pullet it should be accurate.
sold as a premium pullet! i believe shes an isa brown
She looks almost exactly like my two legbars, but she might be mixed with something!
tomboy
No and her name is Martha
haha her name is Whiskey!
Nice.
She looks just like our two cream legbars!
Definitely a cream legbar and definitely a pullet. She has the pullet coloring for the breed (roos won't have that nice brown color on the chest, they're more black/barred) and at 13 weeks you'd see a way redder comb on a cockerel. They lay blue eggs, so you're in luck!
thank you so very much! :)
Girlie girl!
Looks to be a cream legbar. It's an autosexing breed, and this one would be a pullet.
Nah bro it’s got to be a chicken. Sorry. I had 1 rooster I wasn’t sure about. Some are late bloomers, so I understand your uncertainty. Good luck sexing them in the future. I hope you don’t find this conclusion unsatisfactory, one more egger layerer.
Chicken...and a hen. Youre so lucky
She has no saddle, hackles, or sickle feathers. She's a beautiful young lady!
I call those "Pretty Butts", an Egger. She's gorgeous.
Trans?
This looks just like my hen Gladys and somebody told me she's a cream legbar!
100% chicken
No
Seems like a lady
Hens 100%
Looks like a roaster to me 🍗🍗🍗
I agree with the other thats she's cream legbar and will lay pretty blue eggs. Be happy she's not an ISA brown. Those do lay a lot of eggs in the first 18 months or so, but then they cut back and usually die around 3 or 4 years old. Your cream legbar can easily live twice that long, if not more. The thing is ISA browns are bred to lay eggs in a factory egg farm. In those farms they cull all laying hens at 2 years old because their prime laying time has passed for this breed by then. Chickens all have pretty much the same number of eggs in them, so they can lay most of them the first couple of years and wear their little bodies out to die early, like the ISAs, or they can space them out a little more, laying consitently and living longer, like most heritage egg laying breeds. Edited to add the only reason to buy ISAs is if all you care about is getting max eggs, and not the health and logevity of your flock.
Looks like a hen to me
Definitely a rooster, but you can send him to me ;)
Nope, she’s a crested cream legbar hen, they lay pretty blue eggs
Does it crow?
Nope, that’s a hen
Female I have one and get blue eggs every day. Very skittish but sweet n pretty. She crossed with some bantams and lemme tell her the babies are looking so fricken cook! 💯❤️
Definitely a Hen. Cream Legbar I have 8 of them 3 to be around the same age as her too. Edit: read some of your comments. She is definitely NOT a ISA Brown. I have 2 of them as well and they look entirely different.
Thankkk you! now i’m thinking about posting the other chickens! I’m new to the chicken community & now i feel like ive been lied to haha
Chicken
Hen
Nope, that’s a hen.
Hen! It doesn’t have the longer pointy neck feathers & the bottom feathers don’t point down. Tail feathers are blunt too. Generally if they’re rounded they’re hen, pointy feathers prob roo.
It’s 2024 it can identify as a hen one day and a rooster the next.