Watch out for that frizzle look...it sure can fool you. I guess because it makes them look like a dress with a while pettie coat underneath. My frizzled australorp roo had me fooled even when he started crowing. I was still in denial.
He will turn two years on May 1st, the day I found him running down the sidewalk in front of me as I walked home from work. Im guessing he was about 3-4 days old then.
Here are a few pics, doting mother as I am
The night I found him:
Ah Im waiting for babies from him too. The problem is, he likes me more than the hens. He mates with my shoes that I have laying around the house more than the hens. I have seen him mount my hens, but Im not sure it is effective. I have one little pullet that might be his and she has just started laying. He likes her and mates with her sometimes. She just started laying and Im hoping the two will make me some beautiful babies.
Here is her pic ; Honker is her name because she started sounding like a goose after the peep stage ended:
I can show you pic but since my "starter" hen was given to me by a woman who had wild chickens on her horse farm, Im sure. The other "hen" she gave me turned out to be a roo and he looks like an OEG, but perhaps more experienced eyes could tell for sure. Little Hen came from a union of my initial hen and this roo. Here are their pics:
My first hen, Mama Cass on the left and Little Hen, her daughter on the right. The baby is Honker
The possible OEG father of Little Hen
So maybe someone else has better ideas as to what my flock consists of!