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[Chaoticchickens]

def a rooster

 

[FatherRoo]

I'm going with what my live stock vet said. I even watched her stick a video camera up my hen's vent just to double check her gender. That rooster, is most definately a hen. And i'm not sitting outside in winter just to get a video of her laying an egg. That'd be akward for not only me, but the hen's too. I already.lost five of them. One of them three days ago on christmas day.

 

[keesmom]

I still think that is a bantam game rooster of some sort.

But say your vet tech is correct and it's a hormonally imbalanced hen. That can happen when the hen's working ovary (usually the left) is damaged by infection or other cause. When that happens the inactive ovary begins to function, but for some reason it usually produces testosterone instead of estrogen. That causes females to develop male plumage and other sex characteristics though then hen will never become fully male (can't alter those sex chromosomes). As a result hens will stop laying and may begin crowing. So even if your vet is right I don't see how you can get eggs from a testosterone producing bird.

Why have you lost so many birds? Predators?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I still think that is a bantam game rooster of some sort.

But say your vet tech is correct and it's a hormonally imbalanced hen. That can happen when the hen's working ovary (usually the left) is damaged by infection or other cause. When that happens the inactive ovary begins to function, but for some reason it usually produces testosterone instead of estrogen. That causes females to develop male plumage and other sex characteristics though then hen will never become fully male (can't alter those sex chromosomes). As a result hens will stop laying and may begin crowing. So even if your vet is right I don't see how you can get eggs from a testosterone producing bird.

Why have you lost so many birds? Predators?

I also think it a game bantam rooster. I don't see how it could still be laying eggs. It doesn't add up. Just like you said, how can a bird producing testosterone be laying eggs. Maybe I am missing something. I also was wondering why the OP has been losing birds.

OP- sorry to hear you lost some, especially one Christmas day.

 

[FatherRoo]

Well, she's not laying full eggs, I think. I'm not sure. My other girls are only five months yet we often find broken egg shells but no damp areas from yolk or anything. And I know its not a run about chicken, cause are coop is locked with no way for anything to get in.

And I know. It was worse because, not only was in on christmas day, but the chicken was missing its head and nec l8, plus hidden under a tire for a car. The hole on the tire was to small to fit the bird threw without breaking the legs and tear off the wings. So it cpuldn't be a predator, especually with how clean the cut and break was. And this wasn't the first time either. Last year during summer, we had eight birds, all of them killed, necks snapped, piled in.one corner, and 2 taken away. Then last month, a skunk came in, and scared four of them to death cause it couldn't get in. makes me super mad. So now I got a dog that is use to barn animals, like a sheep dog but only used to protect barn animals living back there with them.

 

[sourland]

Henny feathered game bantam rooster regardless of what your vet says.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Henny feathered game bantam rooster regardless of what your vet says.

I agree.