OH no... here we go again! Roo??!?

[sheila3935]

Ok now I am really confused. Your barred rock looks like my 3 month olds and everyone here keeps telling me roo. Only 2 have crowed I guess you would call it a crow more like a screech. but the other one looks like the roos only the tail feathers on the one that screech are pointed at the end and the other is rounded, Cant tell on the hackle or saddle feathers yet they all have gray shading on their legs. Here is some pictures. In all of these pictures they are darker than the picture shows. Guess my flash is too bright.

 

[bigchicken2]

It doesn't matter if they're roos. "Chicken lovers" love eggs and hate roos. True Chicken Lovers love hens, roos, and chicks, no matter what. "Chicken lovers" kill all their roos (or all except one and kill all his sons) True Chicken Lovers don't kill all their roos and are happy to get another roo. Don't huff and puff over accidental roos because then you're a "chicken lover" Look like roos to me.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

I think Frack is a pullet.

 

[ChooksChick]

Both pullets. I think so, anyway.

I have had many fabulous, loving roos, and together, and no fighting. It's fine if you give them a little bit of your time and hang out with them, holding them & petting them. Lovers, I tell you!

 

[spikennipper]

Quote:
Yes I see what you are saying and I do love all my chickens I have ever had, roos included, but I have also had to kill all my roos, reason being? my neighbours complained about the crowing...some people just don't have the option of being able to keep a roo I'm afraid, it doesn't mean they love them any less.

 

[ChooksChick]

Quote:
Yes I see what you are saying and I do love all my chickens I have ever had, roos included, but I have also had to kill all my roos, reason being? my neighbours complained about the crowing...some people just don't have the option of being able to keep a roo I'm afraid, it doesn't mean they love them any less.

I have a single roo at home, who crows ever so rarely- if it got to be too much for the neighbors, I'd have him turned into a capon so I could keep him. You may not have that option, but perhaps you can find some vet to do it?

 

[Lorije1]

yeah... it matters if they are roos... I don't own my land and the landowner was gracious enough to let me get hroses. And then chickens. Then the landowner was gracious enough to say I could keep the white roo. Now, I have to go bring up that I may have yet another rooster?



anyway..... here are a couple of side shots

 

[okiehen]

Marge is a rooster
Frack is a pullet
Stink is a pullet

 

[ChooksChick]

Absolutely stick by the assessment. Marge is a fella, but those are pullets w/o a doubt.

 

[Lorije1]

Frack sure confuses me.... those big bright red comb and wattles, fluffy butt, no fancy tail feathers. The white roo is a week or 2 younger than Frack, so if Frack was a roo, there would surely be fancy tail feathers by now?
I am going to just look forward to that first egg from her.