Hen Turning into Roo?!??!

[Dharmachick]

I have had all hens, and my lead hen goes broody every year, and lays prolifically, but she also has inch long spurs.

 

[MissChick@dee]

My lead hen, a Barred Rock, crows in the morning, but it is a very delicate, soft gurgle crow. She only does it *right* at the moment when the sun is coming through the trees, and only once or twice. It's adorable. She still lays eggs just fine.

Is she named after a singer?
That’s just too cute.

 

[rosemarysugar]

Is she named after a singer?
That’s just too cute.

Do you know anybody who could help this poor lady she has an egg bound hen here is the link!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/egg-bound-prolapse-help-please.1279325/

 

[Killer Tomato]

Is she named after a singer?
That’s just too cute.

She is named "Depends" after the adult diaper! When she was a chick, it looked like she was wearing a big diaper (Barred Rocks have those fluffy, white butts as chicks), thus the name.

No, she was not named by a sweet little child, but by two semi-normal, functioning adults. We also have a Fishstick, Butters, and Shortbus. We are running out of normal names.

 

[MissChick@dee]

She is named "Depends" after the adult diaper! When she was a chick, it looked like she was wearing a big diaper (Barred Rocks have those fluffy, white butts as chicks), thus the name.

No, she was not named by a sweet little child, but by two semi-normal, functioning adults. We also have a Fishstick, Butters, and Shortbus. We are running out of normal names.

 

[New2Chicks97]

She is named "Depends" after the adult diaper! When she was a chick, it looked like she was wearing a big diaper (Barred Rocks have those fluffy, white butts as chicks), thus the name.

No, she was not named by a sweet little child, but by two semi-normal, functioning adults. We also have a Fishstick, Butters, and Shortbus. We are running out of normal names.

LOL! Gotta love unique names .

We have Lucky, Unlucky, BBQ, Pecky, Rose, Road Runner, Beaky, Sugar, Thing 1, Thing 2, Spookaloo, Knight, Convict, Chicken Hawk, Hudson and Our rooster who I call Buddy and my Daughter calls HeiHei.

We have no interesting transgender girls though. Just boring old molting grouchy girls who look like bedraggled raggamuffins.

 

[Killer Tomato]

When our beautiful Easter Egger (Liz Taylor) molted last year, we called her Nick Molty for a few months! She's the most molty hen we have -- everyone else continues laying, but she gets so moody, and stops completely.

I'm sure the neighbors think all my chickens are named, "Hey! That's not yours!" or "Ouch! That's my leg!"

 

[Abriana]

Sometimes if there is no rooster a hen will take over that role.

 

[Kessel23]

Here are some pictures of my hen if anyone wants to see them. This can happen in a flock with roosters too btw, as you can tell from these pictures-

she is next to the tree behind the log. I noticed that she also stands kinda weird. It is hard to notice in these pictures though because it is cold out and everyone is trying to stay warm.

Here you can see a spur. They are thin and pointed more downwards than rooster spurs. This hen definitely had issues with hormone production, she did not lay until she was a year old and she was much slower growing than the other leghorn hens. Her comb would also slowly develop in bursts and then stop, it is still doing this now even though it has been ages since she first laid.

The original picture was taken on April 16th, when she was just over a year old-

Her spurs and comb grow in bursts and it is noticeable, the comb will stand up overnight and then be flopped again the next morning. She also has trouble with egg production and will go weeks without laying and then suddenly lay multiple eggs in one day. I think she was born deformed because I have been having problems with her since the first week of her life and it is a miracle that she has lived this long.

 

[ShellyBlanco]

I have a 1.5 year old RIR chicken who as a chick we thought was a roo ,but at about 23 weeks old he/she started laying. So we where like HE is actually SHE and that was that. When he/she was 14months old he/she stopped laying and only lays a fairy egg about once a month. Then I found out about gender changing chickens. At this time I noticed how he/she doesn't look like a hen and before he/she started molting had green/blue kind of long tail feathers, fiery orange hackle feathers, and a bigger comb than my rir hen. I went outside and looked at she/he and the spurs have slightly grown since she/he has last layed.
Could he turned into a hen (and that's why production was so bad) then now is turning back into a roo?

That's a hen with a hormone imbalance. Is she the top hen? Do you have a roo so that she can let go of the lead role and settle in as a hen?