Black star? Hen or roo?

[tanyam82]

From everything we've read, this should be a Black Star hen but....'she's' been mounting the hens the last few days pretty aggressively. No cock-a-doodling yet but he/she is still fairly young (4-5 months). We can't have roosters in our area, so we hope to know sooner rather than later so we aren't breaking any ordinances. Can anyone tell from the pictures? Thanks in advance!

 

[LRH97]

Looks to me like you have an Easter Egger roo.

 

[BantamLover21]

Easter Egger rooster.

 

[Chickychik]

Sorry to butt in but my chicken has some of the same coloring and I was thinking she was a black star hen. Am I correct?

 

[LRH97]

Sorry to butt in but my chicken has some of the same coloring and I was thinking she was a black star hen. Am I correct?

Yours does look like a Black Star. From what I can tell yours lack the ear muffs and beard, and looks to have a single comb.

 

[Chickychik]

Thanks, I wouldn't mind if she had been an EE but I don't want her to turn out to be a Roo! Actually I wouldn't mind one Roo but the hubby is not too keen on that idea! Neither are the neighbors!

 

[chick peeps]

it does look like a rooster but do you think you could post a picture of the tail and back?

 

[Chickychik]

. This was a week/week and a half ago. She is still young so it might be hard to tell yet.

 

[chick peeps]

um, yeah I can't really tell since the tail is down, but in the second picture the tail and back feathers looked like rooster feathers

 

[Chickychik]

Oh boy, a surprise for the husband! lol He knows less about chickens than I do so he won't know until he hears crowing! Haha. Besides he's becoming attached to them, by the time he figures it out he won't want to get rid of it either!