confused chook

[the1much]

some "get there" before others,, i MAY be wrong,,but i doubt it lol,, but ya,, i'd say he's a late blooming roo,,,,,,and what do you mean by "making any improper advances to the 5 girls" lol,,, id say he's improper by making them wait!!

the others will chime in with their knowledge,, but i think he's gonna be a BIG boy.

 

[confused chook]

Picture of him(?) and a hen of the same breed

 

[confused chook]

I'm not suggesting it was the confused one (and or a rooster) who layed this egg - but I can certainly understand a hen wanting to have a gender change if it pumped one of these big ones out

Yes there is one banty egg but the others in the carton are from good size birds (Australorp, Rhode Island, Sussex etc)

 

[ebonykawai]

That's a hen.

 

[conny63malies]

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[the1much]

you sure you dont have an ostrich???

 

[BubbaJo]

Wow... that's gotta be a double-yolker!

Looks a lot like my double-yolker, too.

 

[confused chook]

The scond sussex is definately a hen, it spends a fair bit of time in the box and we do get the 5 eggs a day quite regularly from the 6 birds.

We have no Ostrich but if you can, please notice the extra graining (thickness) around the middle of the egg.

It was a double yoker and did not taste any different

About a month later which was a few weeks ago, we had a second monster size egg, but it was marginally smaller than the first one.

Does everyone agree that the confused one pictured a few posts ago is a rooster?

 

[ebonykawai]

There are no roosters in your pictures. They are hens. Some hens have larger combs and wattles than the others, and some hens crow.

 

[confused chook]

I was too embarressed to ask that question but seeing its out there is it true that hens can crow?

And if its a hen, does that tie in with some of the conjecture that exists where if there is no rooster in a flock that one of the girls can start to adopt some rooster like behaviour?

What I find hard to understand is that it is now over 12 months of age but it appears to be changing in appearnance and behaviour so quickly.

Even since I started this thread a couple of days ago its behaviour and dominance is getting more pronounced.

Since we started to be able to differntiate it from the hen sussex (which was only about 3 months ago), we have not noticed it about in the laying boxs.

Don't know which bird is laying the monster size eggs of which we have had only two.

What makes those who think its a hen, think that?