Crazy Colored Chicken

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Nice try

That would be all the PQ and project culls.

 

[Puresilk]

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Tell you what...I will bet all my excess roosters against all of yours that it is a male. I'll even add shipping costs to the bet (paid by the loser).

I would actually consider taking you up on that, but it wouldnt be fair if I won. You wouldnt want my spare rooster, lol...

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

It's very pretty

I'm going with a roo though because of it's coloration. Roosters are the only ones with coloring like that, that I've seen.

 

[LarryPQ]

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Nice try

That would be all the PQ and project culls.

AND DEN? I bet those are still better than what I could find wandering around the neighborhood. Maybe a bajillion times better

 

[Puresilk]

Any tips yall can give me on sexing this young bird then? We have a lot of roosters here and I never even once entertained the idea it might be a cockerel, just because of its actions. I know roosters are the ones with all the bright colors, I just hadnt thought about that in regards to this chicken because of how it acts...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Tell you what...I will bet all my excess roosters against all of yours that it is a male. I'll even add shipping costs to the bet (paid by the loser).

No thank you, lol...just hope your wrong but even if you arent, I will keep it around cause I like the color....Ok, it was sold to me as a serama, and it seems to fit the type kind of, lol, but for the longer legs...I have a serama cockerel that is a month younger that is crowing and has started trying to cover hens and has started gettin squirrelly with the our roosters, this bird is over 5 months old, and has not shown the most minute tendencies of a rooster, and it is in a pen with roos and hens, it acts just like a pullet...

Pretty pleeeese?

I don't know how rapidly serama tend to develop. He looks large and not very typey for a serama. However... my youngest ever bird to ever crow and get "cocky" is Cocky Locky, who crowed at 2 weeks and was dancing at about a month

My oldest is Gage, who some knowledgeable people still (at 3 years old) say is a hen was well over a year (maybe 1.5? when I first heard him crow and saw him dance. I have his offspring, and no, he didn't lay an egg for me to be sure

(but the hens in his pen did

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[Puresilk]

It isnt a very typey bird, I paid $5 for this bird because of its color. I have a 4 month old cockerel that is crowing and doing everything a cockerel should do...wish I had a good way of sexing it now, yall got me worried.

 

[Puresilk]

I mean, a 1 year old rooster tryign to mount and breed this bird wouldnt be a good indication? The rooster I am speaking of does his duty daily with a couple other hens.

 

[LarryPQ]

I don't know anything about seramas, but even with my own project birds, I have found when it comes to the "weird lookin' " ones, my first instinct is generally right.

But those are my birds, go with your gut on yours. Eventually, he/she will crow or lay an egg. If she really is 5 months old you wont have to wait long.

(BTW- I have a CM hen who got gynourmo waddles and comb WAAAY before her brothers and 3 months before her sisters. I was so confused, she should have been sex-linked, but the waddles threw me off. SO--you could have one of those crazy-developing birds on your hands)

 

[LarryPQ]

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I still say this means nothing. I have a rooster that mounts DEAD THINGS.