I think this is the other Roo that's going to get to hang around:
His tail is a little beat up (and has some smut in the white), and his eyes are the wrong color - but he was a good breeding lesson for me - if I'd culled early, he would have been the first bird to go - was the ugliest chick...
They're about what I expected from the breed - a bit on the wild/flighty/skittish side - not real friendly, but not standoffish. When the feeders are empty - they come and get me - but they're not really 'sit on your lap' birds. They seem to get along fine with our ducks and geese - no real...
Thanks Phoreda,I don't - that one is from 11/8, and he was born on 6/8 - so it's time to go out there and take some more - it's tough with the early sunsets though - light is terrible when I get off work.
He's a hatchery bird from Cackle - they imported a bunch of roos from Switzerland a...
The second one is definitely a hen. My birds are from Cackle, and any of them with polishy looking crests were hens. My hens also all seem to be significantly darker than the roos - mostly in the back.
Might be a hen, not 100% sure. I just looked at some pics of mine at 9 weeks, and there's a lot of variation in the roos -
I believe this is the rooster in my avatar:
But this is another one at the same time:
The hens were like this:
and this:
(My hens are terrible - ended up with...