Crowing Hen??

[mindyksmith]

Last week my sister rescued this beautiful red chicken that had been attacked by a dog. It was full of maggots, but after a good cleaning and antibiotics, the chicken is doing well. My sister has been keeping it inside of a crate in the house, and this morning "she" crowed 3 times, very loudly. I have heard that hens can crow, but we're wondering if it is even a hen. Please help determine breed and gender!

 

[Griffinsong]

That looks to be an Easter Egger cockerel. Maybe already an adult roo with that comb. Looks a bit worse for wear, but a handsome boy nonetheless.
If you have hens to breed him to, he might possibly give his offspring the gene for blue/green eggs, since he has a pea comb, the traits are close together genetically, and often carry over together.

The comb looks far to the front, might have been damaged by the dog.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Sorry but that is 100% EE rooster due to the large comb and long and slender saddle and sickle feathers.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not sure the breed, maybe Easter egger but that's a rooster.
Long pointy hackles, pointy wing feathers and curved tail.

 

[mindyksmith]

Thanks y'all!

 

[PoultryQueen101]

Not sure the breed, maybe Easter egger but that's a rooster.
Long pointy hackles, pointy wing feathers and curved tail.

Looks like an ameraucana to me. (Are they basically the same? ) thats a pea comb?? Its huge! And weird looking. It almost looks like the wattle over turned.

Most people who have "EE's", the legs are green. His are slate, like an ameraucana.

 

[Griffinsong]

EEs are [usually] Ameraucana mixes[they can be araucana or legbar mixes, too, though]. The legs can be any color. Usually willow or slate, but yellow and white happen, too. Because the comb is this big, he is definitely not a purebred, that kind of comb happens when there is only one pea comb gene and it gets partially repressed by other genetics. Though this particular one is flipped far to the front so it may be damaged. He doesn't have wattles, because beards repress wattles. [think of d'uccles and bearded silkies with their tiny ones XD.]