How to Tell the Difference Between a Pullet & Cockerel

How to Tell the Difference Between a Pullet & Cockerel
Listen to the disturbances it makes. A pullet will make some clucking disturbances and squawks, but it doesn't crow. A cockerel will crow.

gaze at the following . Both the cockerel and pullet have short circular tail plumage, but the cockerel has saddle plumage. Saddle feathers start growing at the base near the follow feathers, and some proceed after the extent of the follow plumage attaching up into the air.

 

Look at the comb and waddle. These will both be larger on a cockerel. The comb is skin on peak of the head, and it will stand straight up on a cockerel and will flop down to the edge on a pullet. The waddle is the skin underneath the pecker that examines alike to a beard.

outlook the tinting on the body and the wings. A cockerel has much more tinting in multicolored types and has colorful wings and swaddles. The pullet will be mostly one color without much detail or will have neutral tinting.

glimpse if the bird is laying an egg. Only a pullet is adept to lay an egg, and it can start doing so at five months of age. Both a pullet and cockerel will come to their sexy maturity round this age.