OK, thanks all for confirming when I pretty much knew but didn't particularly want to be true. Hope we can find the dude a new home, as I don't relish the idea of culling just because he's a he.
I'm pretty sure our 4 month old Silver Ameraucana is a rooster, but I want to make sure. Sally/Sal is bigger than our hens, does some moderate herding, likes to climb on top of our watering thing and look like an oh-so-handsome weather vane, has a more developed crest than the two hens who are...
I live in Seattle with my wife on a burgeoning urban farm that includes three chickens, Betty, Peggy and Joan. Betty is adventuresome, albeit afflicted with some paralysis (see my thread under diseases and emergencies), Peggy is sweet and soft-spoken, Joan, well, let's just say Joan lives up to...
My Buff Orpington (Betty) has been experiencing leg paralysis for a little under a month. She eats and drinks well, looks fine, has energy (perhaps diminished somewhat from having to limp around), isn't losing weight. She had some gasping issues for a while but that seems to have dissipated...