[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Hen or rooster? Update Pg. 2 (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/6/2007 2:02:11 PM EDT
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Someone gave me this chicken. I have no idea what breed it is. It's young, but I don't know how young. I'm trying to decide whether to keep it or name it Stew. Be thoughtful and answer carefully, ARFCOM. A life hangs in the balance.  |
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Looks like a buff orpington hen and a rhode island red on the right. The guinnea hen on the left is the loudest, dumbest and most annoying bird there is. My FIL's chicks just stopped laying because the weather got cold here. ETA: FIL has all 3 pf those as well as some dominics and turkeys. If the one in the middle was a Rooster, he would be significantly larger with a HUGE comb. His hens lay everyday (until last week.) They don't need a rooster to lay, but they won't be fertile unless there is one to fertilize the eggs. If she doesn't lay right now it is because of the weather.......don't give up on her, wait until the spring  Good luck |
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I have had a few that I thought were hens turn out to be roosters, and the reverse is true. What I can't figure out is why this one always growls at me. Need to turn up the volume to hear it.....RR free. |
Don't look a thing like any of my purebred Buff Orpingtons. Might be a Buff Orp/Light Brahma cross. |
Gotcha...just a quick glance a t the color was my first hint, but I agree with you now that i look closer |
Gonna say no on the Ameraucana too, no beard/muffs and wrong color legs/skin. |
| Looks like it's got some ARACANA (sp?) in it. Check 3rd pic down. I say hen. Nice birds, blue eggs. I like mine. |
To sex by feathers you have to look at the very small one's on the wings. You cannot see them in the pic. My wife say's alot of stuff too. |
She has a crush on me. Follows me around like a dog, and will even fly up and perch on my arm. (Wife calls her my "Guinea Falcon".)
Wish you hadn't said that. 
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I don't know how many you have and don't know how 1 acts alone, but get 10 of them together.............OH MY LORD  Serious ABNOXIOUSNESS (if that's a word )
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Chickens don't have vaginae or penises. And I'd say it's a pullet. She's lacking the sickles of a male, and the saddle feathers aren't distinctly sharp enough to make me think it's a cockerel. The hackles also look rounded. Either way, you should just wait a couple weeks for it to get a little older and have more distinct sex characteristics. (Though the rounded feathers isn't a dead give away. Seabrites for example are all feathered the same. Crowing isn't necessarily a 100% male thing either. I've had two hens that crowed.) I did have a Rooster fight, and win, against a fox that got into the yard. He was beat up pretty badly, but he won. |
[Austin Powers] "That's a MAN, man." [/Austin Powers] |
As do all chickens. Gotta give 'em credit for laying waste to annoying insect and rodent populations. Those fuckers will eat anything that moves. ETA: Thats a hen.. A pretty one at that. 
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That's true, but can you think of a better time to have posted it? |
ahaha!!!! The wife is excited to know she was right. And i'm glad I caught seeing this. |
well, she just saw this and did this  and then this  |
WTF! WTF! WTF!
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That right there is one of them I am legend chickens |