roosters

[CB3fish]

I have 5 Rhode Island reds, about 4 months old. I ordered 5 pullets. But one is very large, that chicken has no spurs or signs of any but it is a big chicken with big feet!! It is going to be very big. I am wondering if that chicken is really a rooster? When do roosters begin to grow spurs?

 

[Percheron chick]

At 4 months a cockerel would have very distinctive feathering. The body shape and stance will be more upright and the redness and development of the comb and waddle will happen long before spurs.

 

[CB3fish]

Well I am really thankful. This chicken stands up very straight, is much bigger than the other chickens, has enormous feet, has a bigger tail and more colors. It also has a large bone structure and already it is very strong! Soooooooooo, it might be a rooster and if it is, I will have to get that collar that someone invented to keep the crowing down; because I live in a county which allows backyard chickens, but no roosters! I did not want a rooster and ordered 5 pullets. What does one do when that chick turns out to be male rather than female? This is now 4 months later and a baby chick will not do. I would like to keep this chicken having raised it from a baby. Well we will see as time goes on.
When will this bird if a rooster begin to crow?

 

[BantamLover21]

If you post a photo of your masculine chicken, we should be able to sex it.

 

[Percheron chick]

Everything you see that are different are signs it's a rooster.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

If you aren't allowed a rooster where you live, you should probably just consider finding him a new home....

Either way, best of luck with him

 

[Egghead_Jr]

The three birds in your avatar are sex links. Is it one of them? If it's a sex link like them and red with white leakage then it's a pullet just like they are. Sex links are mixed breeds bred specifically from two breeds to give 100% sexed by color at hatch offspring.

 

[Frindizzle]

Please post pictures so we can figure out the gender.

 

[CB3fish]

I will take a picture tomorrow and post it. But it has a larger comb and does have small wattles which the other hens do not have. I did not know to look at the wattles. But I see them now. Thanks.

 

[CB3fish]

Wow, NO it is not one of them. It is from a hatching in August this year. But will you explain more about what you wrote. I was given those chickens and identified them as Rhode Island reds, which I understand is a cross bred chicken. What does using SEX mean in this situation?