My favorite pullet just crowed!

[Mag16]

I bought 10 pullets from a local feed store this past July. About a week ago, I noticed that my favorite pullet - Duchess - was starting to look a little different than the other girls. "Her" tail feathers were starting to stand up more than the others and her comb was getting really red. I had read on here where their combs would start getting redder when they were getting ready to lay so I was getting excited about my first egg coming soon.

Long story short, my son was helping me pour new feed into the feed barrel and Duchess CROWED! He looked at me and said, "I thought they were all girls!?" To which I replied, "So did I! They assured at the feed store that they were all pullets." "Duchess" crowed 3 more times. He sounds like my nephew whose voice is changing.

"Duchess" is now named Duke.

Since I am new to this do I need to separate him from my girls or can I just leave him in the coop?

Here he is when I first got him and thought he was a pullet

Here he today after finding his voice

That's Henrietta in the background - she wants to be a supermodel.

 

[M To The Maxx]

That is a roo.

 

[Happy Chooks]

You have a handsome rooster.

 

[wyliefarms]

Duke can stay in with the hens. You will have fertile eggs. The hens will get "beat up" by him.

We are seperating our roosters on Friday, we gain a pen with the meat chickens leaving. So that way the hens can grow their feathers back before it gets too cold.

Enjoy the crowing! Our meat chicken roosters just started to crow, and they do sound like a teenage boy!

 

[Kiwi Chicky]

He is a beatiful rooster What breed is he?

 

[flymamma]

Duke is just gorgeous ! What breed is he ? I feel your pain , I had a barred rock that was more mature looking then the rest .. so here I am waiting for weeks to here the egg song and what do I hear ? COCK A DOODLE DOOOO !

 

[snowydiamonds]

Not all roosters beat up hens! I have had a few too big for the hens or too rough but the ones I kept are all gentlemen w/their ladies and also good fathers or baby/chick sitters, allowing the chicks to warm up and sleep beneath them (the roo) instead of the hens And my neighbors enjoy hearing the crowing, its an unusual thing for us up here in the North A neighbor two doors down is from Georgia and she Thanks me for my crowing roosters! Says it reminds her of "home" every morning.

 

[Mag16]

He is a beautiful rooster What breed is he?

I don't know. I was told that he and 3 others were Ameraucanas when I bought them but after reading these forums, I think he is maybe an EE? His legs are green. He has a little bit of brown right in the middle of his back and 2 of his tail feathers have a blue tint to them.

He was in the same pen as these:

 

[speckledhen]

He's a handsome Easter Egger rooster.

 

[fordmommy]

Pretty boy.