Final Verdict??

[RavenEh]

Well...she started crowing last week. So I guess that answers any lingering questions about whether she's Harriet or Harry! That makes out of my six original chicks....5 were roosters!

 

[Michael OShay]

Well...she started crowing last week. So I guess that answers any lingering questions about whether she's Harriet or Harry! That makes out of my six original chicks....5 were roosters!

I'm sorry about the overload of roosters, but thanks for the update. Sometimes you get a bird that no one is certain of until it either crows or lays an egg. )

 

[nchls school]

Well...she started crowing last week. So I guess that answers any lingering questions about whether she's Harriet or Harry! That makes out of my six original chicks....5 were roosters!

With mine it was either Hannah or Harry and Hannah crowed so she was he and the name changed to Harry but then Harry laid an egg (still crowed) and the name was changed back to Hannah and Hannah kept crowing for another two years all the time laying eggs and being broody and hatching any fertile egg given to her and that went on for two years and then the crowing stopped and now she is eight and brooding again. Good luck!

 

[RavenEh]

Well...I rehomed "Harriet" about a 3 weeks ago because she was crowing and acting like a rooster. The guy I gave her to had chickens all his life and he confirmed she was, most likely, a Harry.

Imagine my surprise when I got an email this morning letting me know Harry laid 3 eggs since Friday! BLUE eggs to be exact! He actually witnessed her in the nesting box, and making a ruckus, and after she left there was a little, blue egg for him. All his other hens are brown egg layers, so he had no doubt this was her egg.

What are the odds of that??? @nchls school I should have listened to you!! I'm still waiting on my EE who is older than Harriet to lay her first egg, so I have to admit it was a bit irritating, LOL.

Ah well, Harriet is happy at her new home and is ruling the roost as the queen bee, despite the fact that she is a couple years younger than all the other hens (AND the new kid on the block). I'm glad she's happy there and the farmer I gave her to said in all his years, he's never been so fooled as he was by Harriet.

Is there ANY logic with chickens?

 

[nchls school]

Well...I rehomed "Harriet" about a 3 weeks ago because she was crowing and acting like a rooster. The guy I gave her to had chickens all his life and he confirmed she was, most likely, a Harry.

Imagine my surprise when I got an email this morning letting me know Harry laid 3 eggs since Friday! BLUE eggs to be exact! He actually witnessed her in the nesting box, and making a ruckus, and after she left there was a little, blue egg for him. All his other hens are brown egg layers, so he had no doubt this was her egg.

What are the odds of that??? @nchls school I should have listened to you!! I'm still waiting on my EE who is older than Harriet to lay her first egg, so I have to admit it was a bit irritating, LOL.

Ah well, Harriet is happy at her new home and is ruling the roost as the queen bee, despite the fact that she is a couple years younger than all the other hens (AND the new kid on the block). I'm glad she's happy there and the farmer I gave her to said in all his years, he's never been so fooled as he was by Harriet.

Is there ANY logic with chickens?

No logic at all it seems at times. I TOLD YOU SO!!!

 

[jane s chickens]

I have a dark red EE hen with ribbon comb. I intended to cross her with BR roo this year but a neighborhood dog killed my roo. I think the chicks from this cross would have looked like your hen--