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wamayhew78

In the Brooder
Aug 6, 2018
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Hello!

My name is Wendy, I am married, have two kids, currently 4 cats, 3 dogs, a parrot, and an aquarium worth of salt water tanks.

About a year ago, my husband and I moved into a new house with 1.75 acres. My husband supported my vegetable garden idea so strongly he did the machine work for me. In the last several years my family repeatedly tried to get me to have a small flock of chickens. Due to a very bad experience as a child, I refused for years. To the point I wouldn't even eat eggs. And like the salt water habit my husband has, he talked me into it.

I have 6 speckled Sussex, that I have raised since day old chicks. One of them, Big Mama as we call her, is much larger than the others. She actually crows leading my husband to believe I have a transgender hen, or a rooster in disguise. My flock is still somewhat young as no eggs yet, but I got the chicks back in late May, so hoping soon.

My daily job is driving a school bus, and during the winter I am an avid quilter. I discovered this site when my husband was researching a crowing hen, and decided to sign up. Maybe I can get a better understanding of what I have undertaken, since my kids show no interest in the flock (nor my vegetable garden).
 
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If the chicken crows, it is a rooster. Sexing at the hatchery is about 95% accurate so one slips through ever once in a while
 
I sincerely hope I don't have a rooster. I get up and leave for work, and at my old house I would wake up the rooster down the street. Those neighbors were not big fans of my job. So I hope I don't have to do that to my own flock. That would suck, as the rest of the family doesn't get up for another 2 hours after I leave.
 
With comb and wattles like that and crowing, you will likely need a new name!

The wattle should be smaller and flat for a pullet and not as much pink.

Hackle and saddle feathers come in later.

I can't see the other one well enough but the comb and wattles look fairly large too
 
Well dang. Need a bigger coop then. I would love to free range my birds but I have some really nasty predators around. Neighbor dogs like to menace my flock, same as the other neighbors cats. Also have two sets of nesting hawks, raccoons, coyotes, and whatever else passes through. Fully enclosed coop was my only option to keep my birds safe.
 
wamayhew78 said:
Well dang. Need a bigger coop then. I would love to free range my birds but I have some really nasty predators around. Neighbor dogs like to menace my flock, same as the other neighbors cats. Also have two sets of nesting hawks, raccoons, coyotes, and whatever else passes through. Fully enclosed coop was my only option to keep my birds safe.
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He should have a nice manly crow too. Some of the smaller breeds can have high pitched crows that can be heard for miles
 

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