hen turned into a rooster?!

[ambrosegirl84]

Hi! I have a one year old blue cochin. I bought it as a baby chick from the "pullet tank," and it seemed like the average hen, only bigger, and she'd consistently poop in the nesting box!

I noticed this spring she had developed red feathers along her wings and became somewhat a pariah in the flock. I have never witnessed any sort of copulaction between this and the other chickens, I have never witnessed it lay an egg or crow. But dang, it has started to look like a rooster just this spring! Was I so blind that I didon't see it was the wrong gender last summer, or could have it had some weird hormonal change?

 

[BantamLover21]

Looks like a rooster to me.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

He has festhered legs which are a characteristic of Asian breeds, which are very slow to mature. So yes he is a rooster because he has a different color wing patch and he has pointed tail and saddle feathers.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Looks like a rooster to me.

 

[Michael OShay]

Definitely a rooster. Sorry. (

 

[drewskimac]

Cockadoodledoo.

 

[Lauraks76]

It's said that there are some rare situations in which a hen will have a "sex reversal" somehow it stops using the left ovary and starts producing androgen through the right ovateste giving it male characteristics. Some say it could also inseminate a hen. I thought it happened with my Elsie whom we now call Eddie. He/she is are only cock and are eggs are fertilized!?!? Or maybe he was just a roo to begin with.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

It's said that there are some rare situations in which a hen will have a "sex reversal" somehow it stops using the left ovary and starts producing androgen through the right ovateste giving it male characteristics. Some say it could also inseminate a hen. I thought it happened with my Elsie whom we now call Eddie. He/she is are only cock and are eggs are fertilized!?!? Or maybe he was just a roo to begin with.

If the hen has a infection in her ovary, she will not be able to fertilize eggs. It just affects her appearance and sometimes causes her to crow. On behalf of the thread starters bird it is extremely unlikely this happened because there are many times missexed cockerels in the pullet bins, also to grow male feathers on a female bird they must go through a molt which this bird is too young to have molted.