Still new to this chicken thing. Thanks to the efforts of a fox and a very large gray rat snake, our flock had dwindled to three hens, two senior citizen barred rocks and a two year old black australorp. We purchased four hens from a lady who buys chicks and raises them, two rhode island reds and two ameraucana hens, the reds were 12 weeks old, ameraucanas were about 8 weeks old. She was pretty sure they were both hens, but this AM I heard crowing from the coop, no one would fess up, but I suspect one of the ameraucana “hens” is a he. The two have developed differently, one has a red comb, the other basically has no comb, one (with the comb) is developing upright tail feathers, the other has a smaller tail, more like the rest on the hens. So which one is the he?
