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  1. CaelHawthorn

    my rooster might not be a rooster?

    I hear what you're saying, but like. we have had viable eggs from him mating with the hens. Isn't that, like, the most surefire sign of being a rooster, or at least not a hen? It's getting a little bit frustrating to defend the fact that he's not solidly a hen to every new person that replies...
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    my rooster might not be a rooster?

    That's what we thought too! We could find nothing online about roosters going broody, but we've seen him sitting on eggs, and when we lift up the nestbox roof, he shrills and puffs up his feathers and chuffs like a broody hen, which is definitely not typical rooster behavior
  3. CaelHawthorn

    my rooster might not be a rooster?

    We've seen him mating with the girls, so he's at least not completely a hen lol
  4. CaelHawthorn

    hi im new here

    just made a post on it now actually lol, the short version is that he's the most hen-ish rooster that I've ever encountered
  5. CaelHawthorn

    my rooster might not be a rooster?

    I have a one and a half year old black copper maran rooster, and we've been pretty sure he's a rooster (he's got a rooster tail, and mates with the girls. We got a bloody-insided egg a week or two ago that must've sat under a broody hen for a day two long), but he's...very strange. He's the...
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    hi im new here

    Hello! I'm a autistic teenager with a special interest in chickens, as well as a flock of currently thirteen birds that we've had for six years (as in, six years of having chickens. Only two of our original flock remain.) And I'm here because I like talking about chickens, and because stuff here...
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