Please help! Hen or rooster????

[chickenbarn-gal]

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Would you say "Its" a Rooster Or Hen????? Please help me,
At first I thought she was a hen... But now its crowing every morning along with my other Real rooster!!!!!
Can a hen Crow????

 

[MrChicken207]

She looks like a hen to me. small comb, no pointing on the hackles, short tail.

 

[lilchick]

Looks like a rooster.. See the poofy feathers in front of his tail? They are darker shade of buff and getting pointy. A hen will get a nice small tail while the roo will be slower and get in a few long feathers at a time...
And hens can crow but it is older ones who have a hormone inbalance of sorts.

 

[mangled]

I would say rooster as well. That one tail feather coming up and the saddle feathers are a darker shade of buff.

Blessings-
Em

 

[klf73]

it's a cockeral, sickle saddle feathers are visible....

 

[cubalaya]

i see a knob on the leg, rooster

 

[chickenbarn-gal]

Okay thanks So much for your help!!

So the question is now, I have another rooster He is the head rooster. I don't think it would be too good if I keep the two rooster together! Right now they are not fighting, or anything like that, but I still don't want two roosters, two different ones crowing in the morning/noon/night, and I REALLY don't want them fighting!!!!

So I think I'm going to eat our little "Surprise rooster"... But do you think he should get a little bigger? Or now because his meat is tender? He is about 5 months old....

What do you think??