rooster just laid full size egg

[painterpeach]

i bought a pair of gold seabrights a few weeks ago. thought i had a hen and a rooster. well! i just wittnesed this pea combed wattle swinging handsome rooster shoot a full size egg out of his err her vent! i have a wittness so i know im not completly crazy! annyone else have this problem and or blessing?

 

[Desert Rooster]

If it is a rooster that layed and egg, WHAT EVER YOU DO, DON'T HATCH IT!!!!!!!

 

[newchick13]

I have heard that seabrights are hard to sex based on the feathers....so the only real difference is size of the bird?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I get a lot more $$ for my rooster eggs than hen eggs. People just seem the like em better.

 

[nurse_turtle]

If that bird is truly a rooster, it may be intersexed. If he laid an egg, he must have oviducts and other female reproductive organ structures. If that rooster laid that egg, I wouldn't ever expect any fertilized eggs from the true hen.

 

[chickenpredatorkiller]

If it is a rooster that layed and egg, WHAT EVER YOU DO, DON'T HATCH IT!!!!!!!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I don't know too much about seabrights, but I would assume it would have sickle and hackle feathers just like any other breed of rooster. I think you have two ladys there, one is just older. If that were a boy, it would have long, stringy feathers just before the tail. Either that's a hen, or the most hen feathered rooster I've ever seen. If you had an egg laying rooster, you would certainly have something special there. Good luck!

Edited to add: well, I retract my previous statement. I just read that sebright roos are supposed to be hen feathered. So they shouldn't have the stringy feathers just before the tail. I still think you have two hens though and that your suspected rooster is a laying age hen.

 

[nurse_turtle]

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Research sebrights. They are feathered differently.

 

[painterpeach]

my wife still thinks im crazy! lol! my dad was my witness though!

 

[Tracydr]

Look up sex change on the Feather Site web site. I was just reading about it the other day.