Breed identity on a funky looking chicken

[ForFlocksSake]

Our local library has chickens out front and just recently added this one. I am in love and must have one. It had a spunky little personality and Albert Einstein hair. Not the best photo but best I can do. can anyone identify this? And if you know the breed can you tell me how they are to keep? Is this a hen or a rooster?

 

[Es_In_Miami]

I'd say Houdan.

 

[TheWasp]

Aww! A houdan! She's a girl alright, I'll put a female and a male comparison for you.
I have a couple of these, they're very noisy and demanding for me.
Female

Male

 

[Es_In_Miami]

I'd say Houdan.

 

[Es_In_Miami]

They are very bosy chatty birds. LOL

 

[Es_In_Miami]

Skittles, my mottled houdan, on the far right. She's a handful!

 

[ForFlocksSake]

OH Shoot. From all these responses im wondering if maybe it's not the right bird for a neighborhood? Even just 1?

 

[TheWasp]

OH Shoot. From all these responses im wondering if maybe it's not the right bird for a neighborhood? Even just 1?

They're good egg layers for me, and they're somewhat nice. As long as you befriend her, you should be fine for the most part.

 

[TheWasp]

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Skittles, my mottled houdan, on the far right. She's a handful!

Such a white houdan! any more pics?

 

[ForFlocksSake]

It’s taking everything in me not to order Houdans right now. Cackle has them and they’re unsexed and 3 minimum. I can’t have any roosters (already have 1 possible 2 cockerels that need to be handled when they’re larger) and I think it’s too hot here to be brooding chicks in my garage.

Also we don’t really have room for more. And I’m a first timer. And they aren’t even laying yet.

Talk me out of it. Someone knock some sense into me.