Is my sons favorite chicken a roo?!

[featherhead007]

I replied earlier, but I moved to a small neighborhood of 10 houses. I have four acres, but there is still an HOA. It’s pretty rural, especially coming from the suburbs.

I would just keep your bird (as long as you can.) Wait for someone else to attempt enforcing the HOA rules.

 

[Trisseh]

My Legbar pullet has a similar sized comb at 6 weeks. And the beginnings of wattles. I’m 100% sure she’s a pullet (Autosexing from a breeder that has very good autosexing characteristics in her line) so I wouldn’t jump the gun just yet. The single combed breeds that wind up with large combs seem to develop a bigger comb faster, ime. If it continues to grow and becomes pinker/red quickly, I would lean more toward cockerel.

 

[The Happster]

Legbar are very fast combing.

 

[JadeFarms]

Have you heard of a no crow collar? It would be sorta like having a hen but possibly with a super low crow.

 

[Tall Holly]

Have you heard of a no crow collar? It would be sorta like having a hen but possibly with a super low crow.

i have! I’ve read mixed reports on them. Have you used one?

 

[Tall Holly]

If legs are an indicator on this breed here they are!

 

[Birds of a Feather]

The chicken appears to be too young to be 100% certain.

 

[Tall Holly]

The chicken appears to be too young to be 100% certain.

Patience is not a virtue of mine.

 

[The Happster]

Nonono.


It's like having a half strangled cockerel.
Not a fan of crow collars. It's better to re-home somewhere that bird can be a normal cockerel.

 

[birdlover2]

No-crow collars are cruel and can hurt the rooster, I've heard they limit air-flow. Plus, crowing is apart of a rooster's nature. Like others on here have said, if you live on four acres and have no enemys, just wait and see if anybody DOES complain. It could be nobody ever notices or cares. Or they figure if you have it then you're allowed to have it. And as far as rooster's crowing being obnoxious or annoying, somebody just drove by blaring loud obnoxious music, and that's allowed! Trucks and cars go by all the time, being just as loud as a rooster, and that's allowed! Even dogs barking is tolerated more. But a rooster just saying "I exist and these are my hens" is not allowed. So I really wouldn't feel bad. Try keeping him, you didn't move out to the country for nothing!