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May 20, 2012 13:54:44   #
dtcracer
 
This little rooster was hatched in an incubater and hand raised. He thinks he is part of the family!







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May 20, 2012 14:14:31   #
Juleann
 
Looks like a Seabright.

We love our chickens and have had many personable, delightful seabrights. We just lost our lone hen of that variety -- she had always been helpful with yard work.

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May 20, 2012 16:24:07   #
dtcracer
 
Juleann wrote:
Looks like a Seabright.

We love our chickens and have had many personable, delightful seabrights. We just lost our lone hen of that variety -- she had always been helpful with yard work.


He's actually a Rhode Island Red/Black Austrolorp mix. Turned out a pretty cool looking chicken, though!

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May 21, 2012 01:06:06   #
photo guy Loc: Chippewa Falls, WI
 
Neat.

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May 21, 2012 05:51:55   #
Juleann
 
Isn't it possible he's a hen? Or has he been crowing?

No comb to speak of . . . which is how we start to decide between the girls & the boys.

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May 21, 2012 10:05:23   #
dtcracer
 
Juleann wrote:
Isn't it possible he's a hen? Or has he been crowing?

No comb to speak of . . . which is how we start to decide between the girls & the boys.


He is still young. He was hatched in March, and is only half grown. It takes a rooster a while to grow out his comb, and start crowing. You can tell the difference between a young rooster and a young hen by their wing feathers. A rooster has longer feathers toward the end of the wing, while a hens feathers are even in length.

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May 21, 2012 10:51:10   #
Brad Loc: Middletown, Pennsylvania
 
So, you owners of Pet Chickens, can you potty train a chicken or do you just keep them outside?

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May 21, 2012 14:36:51   #
dtcracer
 
Brad wrote:
So, you owners of Pet Chickens, can you potty train a chicken or do you just keep them outside?


He is kept outside :lol: :lol:

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May 21, 2012 20:25:59   #
cameranut Loc: North Carolina
 
dtcracer wrote:
This little rooster was hatched in an incubater and hand raised. He thinks he is part of the family!


I once babysat a hen for a friend of mine. She was going on a trip & asked if I could keep her while she was gone. The hen was a white hen that fell off a Holly Farm truck bound to the chicken slaughter plant. Somehow they put a hen on the truck with the roosters. I kept the hen & taught her to jump on my shoulder, then I would give her a bite to eat. Some time later her parents asked me why that chicken kept trying to come into their kitchen. It was hard to keep a straight face when I told them I had no idea. We were always rescuing something. I rescued a rooster from the same kind of truck & it would flog me every chance it got. Ungrateful thing. Still love chickens though.

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May 21, 2012 21:05:11   #
MaryElizabeth Loc: Mitchell, Ontario, Canada
 
but isn't he part of the family.... Have you tried to tell him he isn't...lol!! :lol:

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