Meep. Newbie here!!

[Kuki]

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I REALLY need to youtube this for you guys..he's sumthin else. Imagine Snoop Dog, but with a beak...and dancing to Kenny Chesney (big star in banana joes bar). Funny but true.

 

[consdrs]

Aren't black stars sexlinks? they can tell by the color they are at hatching. it should have been easily sexed. does your black star have white barring on its feathers? that would be a male. I have black stars. They started laying at 18 weeks and haven't looked back, egg a day.

 

[Kuki]

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What does white barring mean? One has a few white feathers on her chest and the rooster(?) has all black/some brown feathers and his tail swoops up bigtime....

 

[Southernbelle]

Can you post pictures of your little guy? That would really help!

Barring is a striped pattern, like a Barred Rock.

 

[babyboy1_mom]

A black sex link hen will be black with the redish brown feathers on the chest area. The roo will look more like a barred rock chicken.

barring means that the colors are somewhat striped black and white, like a barred rock.

Dorothy

 

[flakey chick]

Black stars are sexlinks so you really should have a girl. Also at 3 months I would have expected to hear some crowing. attempts.

 

[chick4chicks]

, Hi, congrats on getting some chickies. Would love to see the dancing one. Good luck. Hoping you have all pullets.

 

[consdrs]

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What does white barring mean? One has a few white feathers on her chest and the rooster(?) has all black/some brown feathers and his tail swoops up bigtime....

One of my pullets you would swear is a roo. The way she carries her self, tail carriage, and attitude. first one to lay an egg. one of my other black stars is so pretty!! lots of color on her head and chest lots of brown barring. quite the squawker when she lays. but if your girl or boy has white edges around their feathers like a Barred rock... mmmm boy. I agree should have been at least trying to crow at 12 weeks...

I wana see a dancing chicken.... boy or girl!! post pics!! video would be better, put it on youtube! never know, could be a star! (ha ha black star

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[BODOR's friend]

I ordered six babies from a place called My Pet Chicken--ordered all hens cause, like you, we just can't have roosters where we live. Of the six babies we ordered--one was maimed when she got here and two are roosters. One rooster was a substitution for a Cuckoo Meran--I was told the sub was a Barred Plymouth Rock. He's a Dominiques--very handsome but definitely not a Barred Plymouth Rock. All the farmers I know here-bouts say they order hundreds at a time and don't have problems like I've had with my six. My farmer friends have told me the percentage of roosters in a batch of sexed hen chicks is REALLY low but that percentage is only low if the people sexing the peeps are qualified. Apparently it's an art to sex a day old chick.

You have a very special rooster. One solution is to bring him in to sleep in a bin in the utility room or somewhere that crowing won't bother neighbors or you (of course I'd rather hear crowing than my neighbor's stupid dogs). Sounds nutz but I do it till I can fine homes for my boys. I'm new to chickens too and would love to know if there is any way to silence a rooster so he is a more acceptable neighbor? That would take care of both our problems. Aside: I think chickens like music. I play it at night for mine and while I haven't noticed them dancing, as long as that music is on, they are soooo laid back and contented. That is until the second rooster ( a bee-U-tiful Buff Orpington) started crowing (this week) my handsome Dominiques who has been crowing for weeks wouldn't crow as long as his music was playing. Testosterone is an eeeeevil thing! I wish you every luck with your chicken friends.