Hen or Roo?

callen0912

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Jan 31, 2015
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Any care to take a guess? I'm thinking roo.
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I would have to disagree with your suspicions. She has no saddle feathers. In fact, what should be saddle feathers are actually nice round, full feathers. Also, from what I can tell in the picture, she has round tail feathers too. Nothing about this makes me suspect Roo. =D
 
Well this makes me feel better! I had read somewhere that if you look at the neck feathers and if their more pointy than rounded on the ends then it's normally a roo. Is that not so accurate information? I have 2 others like this. They came from TSC and were labelled as RIR's.
 
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I would have to disagree with your suspicions. She has no saddle feathers. In fact, what should be saddle feathers are actually nice round, full feathers. Also, from what I can tell in the picture, she has round tail feathers too. Nothing about this makes me suspect Roo. =D

For clarity's sake - both males and females have saddle feathers. The term simply refers to the feathers located on the saddle area of the bird. The difference is in the structure of those feathers with males having long, pointy, shiny saddle feathers that hang down and females having rounded saddle feathers that look like the feathers on the rest of her body both in structure and how they sit on the body.
 
Well this makes me feel better! I had read somewhere that if you look at the neck feathers and if their more pointy than rounded on the ends then it's normally a roo. Is that not so accurate information? I have 2 others like this. They came from TSC and were labelled as RIR's.
That is true - the feathers in that area are "hackle" feathers and, just as with saddle feathers, there are differences in structure between male and female mature birds. Here are some illustrations that might help you.


 
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That is true - the feathers in that area are "hackle" feathers and, just as with saddle feathers, there are differences in structure between male and female mature birds. Here are some illustrations that might help you.
This helps a lot. I'm guessing that the bottom picture is of a hen, correct?
 

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