Hens Crowing Like Roosters - Need help!!

[Peep lePleaser]

Yep that comb is pretty large and way too bright for a 9wk old girl to have. And see the fancier feathers around the neck? And I agree also with whoever pointed out the tail feathers. I would bet my whole flock that you have a boy there. Sorry!

 

[Codyandme1]

if you still dont want to draw the line to weather its a rooster or not then watch it to see if its laying eggs that should definately tell you weather its a rooster or not hehehehe

 

[featherz]

That's a boy. Big three row comb at nine weeks and I can already see some shiny feathers sprinkled around. Plus the crowing = boy. Yes, there are hens that crow, but 9/10 times when someone on here says my XX-week old chicken is crowing, it turns out it's a boy.

 

[speckledhen]

There is absolutely NO question that you have a cockerel in that picture, sorry. At 9 weeks, no Easter Egger pullets have a huge red honking comb like that. So, you have a crowing boy on your hands.

 

[southerndesert]

100% boy and a handsome guy he is....

 

[duckinnut]

Congratulations! Its a boy! For all the reasons the other posters have said.

 

[roni0907]

I am learning SOOOO much on this Website! Thank you very much for all your opinions - us newbies seem to have so many questions, but I have to say I am really enjoying learning about all this

This brings me to my next question - Is anyone looking for a cute little EE Rooster to add to their flock??? My hubby likes him and all the noise he makes, and I wouldn't mind it if we didn't live in town! Free to good home

I just don't want him to end up on the dinner table. LOL

 

[Cowgirl71]

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[chickens_in_the_ghetto]

Yeah, that's definitely a cockerel, I'd agree.
We had what looked like a flock of ten young ladies, until we bought our big pretty boy Aku, and then one of our largest, more aggressive "Hens" (I felt that the bird was just taking the "rooster role," because it really looked like a hen to me-- no spurs, pretty nicely red face but not particularly goodsized wattles, no mounting, and no hackly feathers or droopy tail feathers, and no crowing at all, and this was after five mos.) suddenly "morphed" into a cockerel. It was like the prescence of Aku made him "Grow up fast." Within a week he was starting to make hoarse, drawn-out crowish noises in the morning, picking fights, etc. Anyone ever heard of this happening?

He made really good chicken'n dumplings though, I mean really good.

 

[roni0907]

So, when he started crowing at 4:30am this morning, I decided he had to go! I took him down to the local feed store where I bought him (they will resell him to a good home) and the first words out of the guy's mouth is "I think you have a hen there."

How can the man at the feed store be so wrong about his gender - you have all seen the pics....he is all boy, and he CROWS all morning!

Oh well, I hope he finds a new home that is going to be good to him, and make him the star of the dinner table

Thanks for all your help everyone!