cluck or cock-a-doodle?

[starkist72]

someone starting crowing yesterday. my husband heard it, and i thought he was crazy... but i heard it this morning i can't keep a rooster in my neighborhood, so whoever it is needs to go the farm where i sent the rest of the hatch.

early on i suspected my rhode island red because it has a vertical tail and seemed to be getting waddles, it's 10 weeks but it was the last to hatch and the runt and is still behind the others a little




this black easter egger has no comb and no waddles, i assume it's a hen. (just over 10 weeks)



and lastly my white frizzled easter egger. the oldest of the hatch, just over 10 weeks. (ps. if you tell me it's this one i'm going to cry... but i have an idea what you're going to tell me)

 

[iwiw60]

Well, it could very well be your EE, but I have a slight suspicion on your RIR.....you just might have to get up extra early and go out there to really see which one it is...best of luck!!

 

[starkist72]

Well, it could very well be your EE, but I have a slight suspicion on your RIR.....you just might have to get up extra early and go out there to really see which one it is...best of luck!!

i could kiss you! i'm so in love with that silly little easter egger!

 

[starkist72]

of course, i could have two roosters... that would be awful! i guess i'm sitting in a lawn chair with my coffee to watch the sun rise tomorrow.

 

[iwiw60]

i could kiss you! i'm so in love with that silly little easter egger!

 

[Cyan Night]

Sorry, I'm guessing it's your frizzled EE :/

 

[iwiw60]

of course, i could have two roosters... that would be awful! i guess i'm sitting in a lawn chair with my coffee to watch the sun rise tomorrow.

Take your laptop if you have one to pass the time!!

 

[starkist72]

argh! it's the white frizzled easter egger.

i posted a question in genetics this morning, but i don't know if that was the right place to post about this guy.

my kids are going to be very upset that we have to get rid of "whitie" and i'm trying to figure out how to approach this. i'm wondering if i should just send him to the farm where i sent the rest of the hatch and call it a day, or if i should try to bring him to a friend who may be able to keep him long enough to get hatching eggs and try to hatch a few offspring.

it might be fun to hatch some offspring, but it's a lot of work too. i'm wondering what the chance of passing on some of his features might be. he came from a blue egg, he's white, frizzled and has green legs.

 

[starkist72]

oh, and i'm still watching the rhode island red with my fingers crossed. if it's a boy i'm going to have to make a tough choice, we'd only have the black one left. keeping one chicken isn't fair to a flock bird, but state law says i can't buy less that 6 pullets at a time (and my children hatched these birds, i was hoping to keep the coop full of "our own")

i'll either have to give up the black one, find a pullet or two, or quickly start incubating. that coop was too much work to let it sit empty!