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    Jumbo Egg Surprise

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/17089_dsc00155.jpg Hope the picture comes through if not you can read about it on the confused chook thread (opinions welcome on the confused bird - possibly the mother, "father" or it of it) It was a double yoker and despite it not sitting flush...
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    confused chook

    Thanks sunny chooks Its nice to read a credible article on that topic. Is there any way to be a %100 accuarate as to what gender the confused one is? So far on this thread I have had one vote for a rooster One vote for a hen & One vote for a rex reversal/hen with male characteristics...
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    confused chook

    I was too embarressed to ask that question but seeing its out there is it true that hens can crow? And if its a hen, does that tie in with some of the conjecture that exists where if there is no rooster in a flock that one of the girls can start to adopt some rooster like behaviour? What I...
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    confused chook

    The scond sussex is definately a hen, it spends a fair bit of time in the box and we do get the 5 eggs a day quite regularly from the 6 birds. We have no Ostrich but if you can, please notice the extra graining (thickness) around the middle of the egg. It was a double yoker and did not taste...
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    confused chook

    I'm not suggesting it was the confused one (and or a rooster) who layed this egg - but I can certainly understand a hen wanting to have a gender change if it pumped one of these big ones out Yes there is one banty egg but the others in the carton are from good size birds (Australorp, Rhode...
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    confused chook

    Picture of him(?) and a hen of the same breed
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    confused chook

    I am conceding that it is a late maturing rooster - but 3 months ago we couldn't pick it from the hen of the same breed. Only 3 weeks ago it started to try to learn to crow. It has no spurs or hackle feathers and its tail is not much different from the hen of the same breed. Its not...
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    confused chook

    Thanks much appreciated, I will email them to you - I had uploaded the photos onto the site and it had said they were successful , but then I could't get them into my post
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    confused chook

    I'm kind of new to the site is anyone able to post some instructions on this thread as to how I can upload a picture of the confused chook?
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    confused chook

    A year ago we got six one day old chicks which were a mixture of breeds and were all sexed female. They are our first and only birds and were raised as pets (Southern Hemisphere) We currently get between 3 and 5 eggs a day and only once have we got six, but in reality one of those could've...
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