Rooster in the henhouse?

[Dria]

Latest batch of chicks has given me a surprise! I think my buff brahma might be a rooster. They just turned four months this week. Tried to get as many angles on the pictures as I could. What do you think?

 

[HuffleClaw]

Pretty cockerel!

 

[Biddybot]

I see...curly sickle feathers.

He's cute! Can you keep him? I'd want to name him Taxi for that 'you talkin' to me?' pose he has in that one picture.

 

[Dria]

I thought so! He is pretty. We can keep him as long as he isn't terribly loud (so far he hasn't shown any signs of crowing or wanting to crow, he's actually the most quiet chicken I have!). My husband has... objections to being woken up at dawn by loud birds.

 

[sourland]

No thinking - he's a cockerel, and a gorgeous one to boot.

 

[DobieLover]

My two cockerels started crowing at 19 and 20 weeks. Your boy is just around the corner from announcing his gender to the world.

 

[Dria]

My two cockerels started crowing at 19 and 20 weeks. Your boy is just around the corner from announcing his gender to the world.

Well hopefully he'll do it quietly or he might end up as soup!

 

[Biddybot]

Tell your husband that he'll find a rooster crow a lot less objectionable than a real crow perched outside his bedroom window, mustering his buddies with about a zillion caws at daybreak.

Also, your guy's going to be a big fellow. He should have a very nice, melodious crow once he gets in some practice and gets past the initial stage of sounding like a calf being strangled.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

You have a gorgeous Buff Brahma cockerel!

 

[9SpiceyChickens]

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