Rooster or Hen?

  Okay, the chickens are sixteen and seventeen and a half weeks old.

   Something is changing with Queenie. Yes, her comb is still bigger and further ahead of the other chicken's combs, but that's not all.

  Now her tail feathers are starting to change, and her feathers are looking more feathery all of a sudden. 'She' is a black australorp, okay? But Black Australorps have black or very,very dark brown eyes. Queenie has orange eyes. Her eyes look way different than her sisters. Not to mention her comb appears to have more than five points to me. I'm beginning to wonder if there is something 'off' about her. So I have taken this picture.

  All three pictures above are of Queenie. A beautiful pullet? Hmmm....

  Now lets check out Queenie's sister.

  An excellent textbook example of a seventeen week old Black Australorp pullet (female, young hen), is she not?

  So either Queenie is going King Boy on us, or we have some other black breed or a mut on our hands.... hmmm. And you can also see that Queenie is going on a growth spurt. Queenie is getting larger faster than the other hens now. Very suspicious... no crowing as of yet, or any attempts to mate either.

  Update: Queenie is not a pullet! The very week we got this suspicious, Queenie started to mount the other hens. Aughhhhh!!!!! A rooster! And then right after this discovery we began to hear.... crowing.... oh no!!!!

  And let me tell you, he is clumsy with the ladies, and annoying right now. lol! We don't know if he will stay and be their guard rooster or if he will go the way of the pot.