Can a hen crow??? Part 2 with new pics...

[CarriBrown]

Those saddle feathers gave it away.

 

[silkiechicken]

Yep, roo, the hackles and shiny sickles starting to show gave it away for me.

 

[Justino]

hackles and saddle feathers tell me a Roo

 

[Oz Chook]

Thanks everyone

I have some good news though, a work mate of hubby will take Lucy (now Lionel). He has about a dozen hens so he should be in his ellement! They are all ex-battery hens so they've never seen a boy before, that will be interesting! LOL We drop him over there this afternoon.

Chickngurl, you've won me on the Polish, I'm going to hunt around in Perth where I live and see if anyone has them here, they are too cool!

What's the minimum amount of chooks that would be happy living together (social structure and all that), I was told once that you have to have at least 3, fact or fiction?

 

[silkiechicken]

You can have as few as two for the birds to have company, but the large downfall of that is that if one dies, gets killed by a predator, or gets sick and needs to be taken in, you only have one lonely bird. Thus three is often a recommended number. I say the minimum is at least 12!!! j/k

 

[Oz Chook]

In my mind and your mind, 12 would be great. In my husband's mind, maybe not so great! hee hee

Now that I'm losing this one, I'll have only 2, so I might get 2 or 3 more. That way if one of them turns out to be a rooster as well, I'll be covered

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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YaY!!

I don't think the pictures show it very well but they have powder blue colored legs too.

I hope you can find some in the Land of Oz!

Mine haven't been very noisy and they like to follow me every where, but I think that's because they're wanting treats or food.