Of my 3 EE mutt babies I acquired recently, 2 have turned out to be cockerels. And boy oh boy, are they going to be GORGEOUS! Their mother is an Easter egger, and the father is an American game fowl. We want to keep one of the cockerels but will have to rehome the other (and the one we keep will have to be rehomed if he gets loud and upsets my neighbors). Anyone interested in a 5-week-old EE/gamebird mutt cockerel who is feathering in really uber-pretty?? There are a lot (and I mean a LOT) of chickens in my neighborhood (they are so not legal here, but everybody has 'em anyway), and many of my neighbors have roosters. I've been hearing them crow every day since long before I ever forayed into a chicken venture of my own. Part of me doesn't want to keep either of the 2 little roos, but the one we want to keep is going to be soooo beautiful when he grows up. We call him Alfalfa because he has a feather in the back of his head that has stood straight up since he first came to us--even as he has feathered in, he has a NEW feather that sticks up in the exact same place... it's too cute.
When we were at the state fair, I noticed the ameraucanas were really loud crowers. Since EE's are mutts of ameraucanas, I wonder if he's going to be too loud. My neighbors' roosters that crow don't really disturb anybody (in fact we all rather like it), so it's going to be interesting to see how he does.
