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**UPDATE with pics (pg. 4)!!** Rhode Island Red, Hen or Roo? PICS!

post #1 of 48
8/19/10 at 7:52pm
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**Update pg. 4**

What do ya'll think? Is my Rhode Island Red a roo or a hen? I'm thinking it's a male from what I've been reading, but I'm hoping not. This has been the sweetest of all my chickens. He/she always comes up to me and just has a sweet temperment. And we can't have roosters where I live, so he'd have to go! sad

Thanks in advance!

(Just a note here, in the third pic, that feather is not sticking out of his...*ahem*... bottom, as it appears. It's just a feather on the ground lol)

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54143_021.jpg

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54143_025.jpg

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54143_023.jpg

Also forgot to add, he/she is 15 weeks or so.


Edited by foxyloxy - 9/10/10 at 9:43pm
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post #2 of 48
8/19/10 at 7:54pm

How old is he/she lol?

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post #3 of 48
8/19/10 at 7:59pm

Roo...is my guess whats the age?

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post #4 of 48
8/19/10 at 7:59pm

I am really wanting to say roo due to the size and color of the comb and wattles. hmm

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post #5 of 48
8/19/10 at 7:59pm
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Sorry about that, forgot to put the age. He/she is about 15 weeks.

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post #6 of 48
8/19/10 at 8:14pm

Cock-a-doodle ROO!!!!!!

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post #7 of 48
8/19/10 at 8:22pm

i'm going to disagree and say hen hide....i don't see saddle feathers or roo tail feathers and should be crowing as well....all my RIR roos had all these characteristics at this age..my hen had red comb and wattles at this age as well.

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post #8 of 48
8/19/10 at 8:27pm
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Yeah, there's no crowing or roo behavior going on, that's another reason I'm baffled here!

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post #9 of 48
8/19/10 at 8:31pm

HEN! POL hen
100% no saddle feathers at all

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post #10 of 48
8/19/10 at 9:00pm
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Sorry... POL hen? Not sure what you mean there..

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