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TanyaN

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Hi everyone

So I've finally got myself some backyard hens, since having to move from my farm..... thought I'd done an ok job of picking young pullets.... till there was a poor attempt at crowing this morning
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So can you help put my mind at ease
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First my two light Sussex, yellow & pinky, 13 weeks old
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Then there's Spot, 7 months, any ideas on breed?
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and then mumma chooks two 3week? olds
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Thanks in advance
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Yes, more a crow than a cackle, the one hen that does lay (not pictured) cackled quite a bit shortly afterwards
 
It is hard to see spot... do you have a closer picture of him/her? From a distance she looks like a hen.
Sometimes dominant hens can crow but this is rare and usually only occurs in large flocks.
The second 'Light Sussex' has yellow legs which isn't correct for a sussex, but at least she is a hen. The 3 week old in the first image is a cockerel and I think the one in the second photo is a pullet, but they are far too young to crow.
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Hopefully the 'crowing' won't persist.
 
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Thanks Cuckoo Orpington, had a feeling that it was one of each with the babies.
No 'crowing' this morning.
I did think it was weird the light Sussex having yellow legs, must be something else in there.
Any ideas on spots breed, my only laying hen is the same as spot, dark legs, dark undertones on face, got them from two different people. Here's the 12 month old girl
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TanyaN said:


Thanks Cuckoo Orpington, had a feeling that it was one of each with the babies.
No 'crowing' this morning.
I did think it was weird the light Sussex having yellow legs, must be something else in there.
Any ideas on spots breed, my only laying hen is the same as spot, dark legs, dark undertones on face, got them from two different people. Here's the 12 month old girl
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Spot has the shape of a hamburg or a leghorn but she has gray legs (whereas leghorns are yellow). Does she have a rose comb? Sometimes Splash Hamburgs can have markings like this but she doesn't have large earlobes like a hamburg. I think she and the 12 month hen are crossbreeds, pretty ones too. It is likely that they are a leghorn x black sex link. This sort of cross is rather common as it produces good layers that aren't plain brown or black. The crowing was probably a hen sneezing/coughing - chooks do this when they get grain up their nose and it almost sound like a first crow.
 
Not Leghorn or Sexlink crosses. Neither of those have feathered legs, which are pretty obvious on Spot (can't tell if the other has them). Silkie cross maybe? The dark skin and feathered legs would fit the bill for them. Any extra toes? They kind of look like Tetra Tints, other than the skin and feathered legs.
 
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Missed the legs
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Does spot have a walnut comb?

This is a silkie x hamburg (as an example), all my silkie crosses have had feathered feet except this cross, though she has five toes and a walnut comb. This girl has black skin, but sometimes pullets take a long time to get red on the comb. You won't ever be able to tell for sure what sort of cross Spot is though, but howfunkyisurchicken's opinion makes more sense.

 
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Thanks again all, so all going well only the one too I have to worry about later
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Spots comb is quite hard to see, will check it out tonight
 
TanyaN said:
Hi everyone

So I've finally got myself some backyard hens, since having to move from my farm..... thought I'd done an ok job of picking young pullets.... till there was a poor attempt at crowing this morning
1f640.png

So can you help put my mind at ease
1f60a.png


First my two light Sussex, yellow & pinky, 13 weeks old



Then there's Spot, 7 months, any ideas on breed?


and then mumma chooks two 3week? olds




Thanks in advance
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I would not have believed it had it not happened to me.....Hens will CROW! I had an Orpington hen (positive) that crowed. When I asked around & even read it here, some dominate hens will crow :(
 

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