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.
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!
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.
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.