A very confused Chicken...thoughts please

[sweeterdeeter42]

Just to add to the not crowing part, I got a rooster who crowed and crowed and crowed when I had him in the house after his bath (lice) when I first brought him home, but since he has been out in the chicken coop he hasnt crowed once. And I got him so I could hear him crowing out there. He is a little over 1 year and is the only rooster with 5 ladies. He does his wing dance sometimes, but no crowing. Sometimes they just choose to be quiet. lol.

 

[CayuseRanch]

No crowing and no egg yet. He/she is seperated and all the others his age are laying, I am really leaning towards Roo, but a quiet one.

 

[BHep]

I say classic EE rooster and a young one, under 6 months old. He is just feathering in. My EE roosters did not crow until about 5-6 months old.

 

[fshinggrl]

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Good to hear an update. Add me to the crow list! I think it is a rooster. A very pretty EE one at that!

 

[greenSearcher]

Add me to the crow list, Thighs and Drumsticks look just like him, and they have been oversexed teenagers for weeks! They keep the head roo busy guarding his ladies and as it is the poor girls are barebacked. I have to get up one morning and just do it! They are going to get tough if I dilly dally around much longer. Enjoy your quiet boy.

 

[captainmom]

I think roo also. Your situation is similar to what happened to me this spring. Had my last year ee's all culled for just one roo, and then with the storms we have been having a friend lost her only roo early last week so I gave her mine. Fast forward 5 days, and the one "pullet" with the same type coloring as yours started to crow and cover the hens. I always suspected it was a roo but no saddle feathers/crow/roo behavior till he was the only boy on the block. I swear those saddle feathers sprouted overnight!!! Those ee's can be so tricky!!!! He is a handsome boy by the way!

 

[babyrnlc]

I say roo too!

Sure wish I had a roo that doesnt crow. I almost said I wish you were In Oklahoma I would offer to take him off your hands and then I saw you were!

Course my luck the day he arrived he would find his crow!

He is very pretty!

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

I didn't read every post but I stumbled upon this thread searching for something else...

but has anyone mentioned the possibility that the good ovary went bad and the hen had a "sex change"
This is rare but look it up. A hen only uses one ovary. I forget which and when it malfunctions, she starts to look like a boy, grows boy's feathers and all. I forget what its called. I read an article in Backyard Poultry Magazine.
Of course she wouldn't REALLY turn into a boy, she would just look like one.

 

[Lovesdisney]

interesting!