To make a short story longer, it turned out we had not 1 but 2 roosters! One of our barred rocks developed his saddle feathers and his comb and waddle became almost fully engorged right after we got rid of Rosie. He started crowing about a week later.
Fortunately, we had named him Josephine which shortens nicely to Jo. Needless to say, we have had a rougher time finding another home for this rooster but as of today, I am please to announce that he, too has found a new home. I'll post some more details later but of the 6 chicks we started with, 1 died and 2 were roosters which gave us a very high 40% rooster rate (of those that lived). Our neighbors will be very pleased that the crowing has ended.
2 of our remaining hens have been laying eggs for the last 3 weeks. We are usually getting 2 per day. I found a soft shell egg today in their pen that I am hoping is the 3rd hen working out the kinks.
