Oh dear, do I have a rooster?

[bwalden]

Def. a roo! i've got some welsummers about that same size and the ones I know are roos comb's look just like yours.

Sorry!

ok, pictures aren't great as neither wanted to stop running around but here they both are.

 

[HEChicken]

I agree with the others - you have a little roo. Now that you are legally zoned to have them, I hope your DH will come around. Your concerns about returning him are valid - your hen is too small to go out with the big chickens, but too big to put in with another day-old chick if that is all you can replace him with. And yes, she will be very lonely if she is raised without a companion. Perhaps if you only have the one rooster, the crowing won't be as bad. The other things - throwing themselves at the window etc. - I've never had one behave like that so perhaps it was something about the place you were at then or those particular roos.

 

[ChaoticCritters]

Well.... I called the hubby and he was snickering at me. His suggestion was to keep our lil Roo until they both are bigger and if the hen integrates with the existing flock well and he's a PIA, then we will find him a new home then unless the feed store has some other option for me, I'll call and see what they have to say. If it's bring him back and get a tiny chick or my $3 back, he'll just stay and hopefully he'll be a kind, QUIET rooster!

My only guess is that raising our previous Roosters in the house until they were 5mo old wasn't a good idea. A well-meaning Kindergarten teacher sent my kid home with 2 fuzzy chicks in a box without asking me if it was ok, so I had no coop, no yard, no nothing for them.... just 2 chicks and a cardboard box! They ended up living in a bird cage and then in a big rabbit cage in the house until I finally conned my brother into building me a coop. Those Roosters, despite my kids taking them outside daily, were convinced they were house chickens and beyond mad that they now had to live outside.

 

[Sphinx]

OH yeah, definitely a boy.


I'm totally cracking up at your house chickens. That is so funny!

I can't believe your kid's teacher sent him home with chicks without talking to you first. The audacity!!

I'm hatching several sets of chicks at my kids' schools, and one of the things I had to agree to was that I'd take home any chicks (unless I wanted to offer them up to the class, which I'd rather not).

 

[gryeyes]

I'm one of those folks who thinks a flock is not complete without a rooster.

1) eye candy for the yard.
2) hen and rooster interaction (not the mounting bit) is a hoot to watch. They will groom each other, snuggle together, he will swagger around and be so proud of himself. The Rooster Wing-dance of Love is so cute & wonderful to watch!
3) a good rooster will alert his gals of danger
4) a gentleman roo will call his ladies over for goodies he's found for them
5) IF you want free chicks, you can hatch your own fertile eggs.
6) everybody needs to be informed of the sun's rising. Every day. And any other event important to a rooster.

 

[chickenmaniac]

it does look like he might be a rooster