Hens turning into ROOs ***Pic Added***

[Hollywood Chickens]

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wow really thats kinda of neat but why?

im not sure why but it happens alot

I have only hens and one of my hens is dominant but she still lays, I have never had mature roosters and I haven't yet had a Rooish hen.

OP I had an EE "Hen" crow at 25 weeks!! as his sister started laying their first eggs. It's kind of funny because he looked just like yours.

 

[Barry1963]

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wow really thats kinda of neat but why?

im not sure why but it happens alot

I have a black sex link that started crowing recently. Crows in the morning then goes and lays...lol. She's gender confused but we love her.

 

[Lovable Chicks]

OH MY...DH said hens would/could crow and I doubted him. MR Dolly is defiantly a Roo cus right after crowing he mated with my hen Shadow. Showed me all at once he was a boy NOT a hen. LOL

 

[bragabit]

Not only to hens sometimes crow...but I have a hen that has grown SPURS

 

[rooster lover 119]

i've actually heard from a chicken expert that actually if there is no roo or if there was one but now its gone. hens can actually go through a sex change. i didn't truly understand her but she said that something goes on in their body chemicaly that changes them completly! she said sometimes hens that go through this can even mate with other hens!!!??? weird right?

 

[Lovable Chicks]

i've actually heard from a chicken expert that actually if there is no roo or if there was one but now its gone. hens can actually go through a sex change. i didn't truly understand her but she said that something goes on in their body chemicaly that changes them completly! she said sometimes hens that go through this can even mate with other hens!!!??? weird right?

OMG...I never heard of such a thing. Will have to tell Hubby this.​

 

[FireTigeris]

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Well kinda- they start producing the male hormones they would never be fertail as males but would display all other male characteristics ...

Birds the male has ZZ the female has ZW so in a rooish hen the hormones are overriding her W chromosomes sometimes but not always causing a stop in egg production.