Rooster or Just a Mean Girl?

[MarkJr]

I just sent the video to the farm where I got the chick as a pullet. He said it could be a hen showing the others who's boss. How likely is that to be the case?

0% chance.

He not a hen/pullet.

 

[MarkJr]

Introducing a single chicken to flock brings a whole new set of learning experiences

 

[EmmaRainboe]

My question is how could the farm not tell that he was obviously mating and is a very obvious cockerel and is brushing it off as showing dominance?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Anyone familiar with chickens should be able to see it was a him via video.
Maybe it was a small screen? Poor eyesight? Etc. Hard telling.
Sexing them young can be hit and miss.

Good point. I just find it hard to believe that someone who gives away/sells chickens in general can't tell that's a cockerel.... even after he was mating. But yeah, it could have been a number of different things.

 

[LaFleche]

I’ll try to recall what they said. They said every living thing has a natural ph force or something. So he held the large steel nail attached to a string above the chick’s head if it goes in a circle, it’s a male. If it swings back and forth, it’s female. Or vice versa. But that’s the gist of it.

That would be just wishful thinking with an accuracy by chance of 50%, just the same as if you would not do anything "magical" to determine the sex.

The nail hanging by a string will be moving one way or the other driven by the movement of the person holding it.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I’ll try to recall what they said. They said every living thing has a natural ph force or something. So he held the large steel nail attached to a string above the chick’s head if it goes in a circle, it’s a male. If it swings back and forth, it’s female. Or vice versa. But that’s the gist of it.

Sounds like an old wives tale. Like that thing where if you hang a chick from the neck and it's legs are straight it's a boy and if it pulls it's legs up it's a girl.

 

[ThatTeowonna]

I think that is the hard part... no chocolate eggs.
Thoughts:
#1 buy chocolate eggs from the grocery store around easter time, then you can actually eat the entire eggs plus it is actually chocolate!!
#2 paint some eggs a chocolate color
#3 possibly think of hatching eggs in the future to see what a mixed breed would lay... be prepared to sell the chickens/roos
#4 maybe try to get more black copper marans next year if you don't have a limit on how many chickens you can have

I think you will be happy to know that my little black rooster and I are getting along much better. I had to start looking at him as a rooster and how he can impact my flock rather than the destroyer of my chocolate eggs dreams. He’s calming down more and hasn’t pecked me recently. He’s still a little aggressive to the new chicks, but overall I think everyone is settling in with each other. Things are much better for us all and I think I will keep him. Thanks for the encouragement. Happy Thanksgiving

 

[rayrose]

That's a Roo

 

[ThatTeowonna]

It's a cockerel!
Looks like your nephew got his wish!!
He will help protect those ladies.

Your remember that! lol... Not just that. He told me two weeks ago that was a rooster. I didn't believe him. No wonder I haven't gotten those chocolate eggs yet.

 

[CluckerFamily]

I'm getting closer and closer to accepting that my Black Copper Marans hen is a roo and there will be no chocolate eggs coming anytime soon...

I think that is the hard part... no chocolate eggs.
Thoughts:
#1 buy chocolate eggs from the grocery store around easter time, then you can actually eat the entire eggs plus it is actually chocolate!!
#2 paint some eggs a chocolate color
#3 possibly think of hatching eggs in the future to see what a mixed breed would lay... be prepared to sell the chickens/roos
#4 maybe try to get more black copper marans next year if you don't have a limit on how many chickens you can have