Cockerel?

[dgriffi3]

I think this is a silkie bantam, but I am not certain. (Husband took the kids to get chicks and didn’t remember to note the breeds. ‍)

My son picked out two that looked nearly identical, from the same breed. Only one of the two now has this (comb, I think! I’m sorry, I’m really still learning. )

Is this a cockerel? Thanks!

 

[TwoChicksChix]

I’d go with a cockerel. I’m silkies, only buffs tend to get this mulberry color and mostly only the roosters do.

 

[cstephens1987]

Cockerel

 

[dgriffi3]

Forgot to include: about 7 weeks old.

Thanks! Man, my son is going to be bummed. I would love a rooster, but our neighbors have been clear that they don’t.

 

[TwoChicksChix]

You can always try and get a no crow collar. They don’t stop the crow completely but definitely stifle it quite a bit. I have a friend who isn’t supposed to own chickens at all with over 7 roosters. Nobody’s made a comment yet.

 

[cstephens1987]

Large ear lobes, red and large comb, head streamers. All cockerel signs to me

 

[Frazzemrat1]

definitely a cockerel...
I'd hesitate to use a collar on them. They work for their purpose, but I've heard many stories of them being applied incorrectly and the rooster strangling and dying.

 

[dgriffi3]

Thanks! I hadn’t heard of a collar. We are also in a no-chicken area. I thought they were permitted as of a few years ago, but it turns out we are just outside of city limits. (So downtown hens are fine, but not suburban. Infuriating.) It isn’t enforced unless a neighbor complains, and my neighbors are fine with hens—just not roosters. I am going to see if one of my country friends can give him a home so that my son can at least visit.

 

[cstephens1987]

Thanks! I hadn’t heard of a collar. We are also in a no-chicken area. I thought they were permitted as of a few years ago, but it turns out we are just outside of city limits. (So downtown hens are fine, but not suburban. Infuriating.) It isn’t enforced unless a neighbor complains, and my neighbors are fine with hens—just not roosters. I am going to see if one of my country friends can give him a home so that my son can at least visit.

That's really odd. Why would the county care about it but only outside of City limits. I've never heard of anything like that.

 

[dgriffi3]

The people inside city limits fought for the right to keep chickens. I thought that fight would apply to all of us, but I was wrong. They are ok in the rural areas and, thanks to the fight, in the cities. They are only not allowed in the suburbs—a fact I didn’t know before and should have researched more carefully, I guess. We were really careful to buy a home in a neighborhood without an HOA, too. I actually thought we were being reasonably diligent!