The crowing FEMALE sebright

[Chicken poppy]

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Oh how interesting! He has saddles, hackles, and sickles! Hes beautiful. No clue on how thats formed but definitely not a normal golden Sebright. I guess just a mix of some sort!

Hes stunning!

Even the color is totally different, i love it.

 

[Jess89]

Oh how interesting! He has saddles, hackles, and sickles! Hes beautiful. No clue on how thats formed but definitely not a normal golden Sebright. I guess just a mix of some sort!

Hes stunning!

Even the color is totally different, i love it.

That’s kind of what I’m thinking, that he may be mixed with something else. Thank you!

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

That’s kind of what I’m thinking, that he may be mixed with something else. Thank you!

He's beautiful but I doubt he's mixed with anything. Its hard to get a good Sebright. Especially getting the henny feathering on the roosters.

 

[Jess89]

He's beautiful but I doubt he's mixed with anything. Its hard to get a good Sebright. Especially getting the henny feathering on the roosters.

Oh ok! I’m not familiar with them. Thought he was a she and then he started crowing

 

[JacinLarkwell]

He's beautiful but I doubt he's mixed with anything. Its hard to get a good Sebright. Especially getting the henny feathering on the roosters.

Isn't it just a recessive mutation? Which would mean that if they have it, their offspring will all have it when bred to another bird with the gene

 

[Chookwagn]

He's beautiful but I doubt he's mixed with anything. Its hard to get a good Sebright. Especially getting the henny feathering on the roosters.

Any sebright that has hackles or saddles has been mixed somewhere in its breeding

 

[NatJ]

Isn't it just a recessive mutation? Which would mean that if they have it, their offspring will all have it when bred to another bird with the gene

http://kippenjungle.nl/sellers/page3.html
This page says henfeathering is dominant. That would mean a rooster could show hen feathering, and carry the recessive for normal feathering.

There is also the difficulty of selecting which hens have the genes-- you have to work out their genes by the appearance of their fathers and their sons. That calls for a lot of test mating, if you are trying to get them to all to breed true for the trait. (Just as bad as trying to select roosters for egg color!)

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

Isn't it just a recessive mutation? Which would mean that if they have it, their offspring will all have it when bred to another bird with the gene

Yes some I think. It depends on the other bird too. I bred a rooster with sickle feathers with a beautiful hen and got some pretty nice chicks. A few had faulty lacing but most of them turned out pretty good. Of course I just breed pet quality at the moment. But I'm working towards show quality.

 

[SueT]

BTW, BYC’s crowing rooster video contest lineup has a Sebright hen crowing...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...r-video-contest.1532895/page-10#post-25954085

 

[HennyTerri83]

I have a crowing silver Sebright (5 mo) that crows. I have had countless of people tell me its a female, so thats whats interesting.

Something i notice is that this one has had a huge crowing gap. Whenever i have had roosters (ive had quite a few.) once they start crowing, there are sometimes gaps between crowing again, but normally they just get so excited they continue to crow 24/7, and sometimes fizzle out a little bit on crowing.

This one had about a 3 week (or even more!) gap of crowing.

Like the Sebright crowed once or twice, then didn’t crow for 3 weeks or so, then started crowing again! So heres my question

Assuming its a female (like everyone says) will i be stuck with a crowing female?? I mean, thats the #1 reason i don’t want roosters in the first place! Because of crowing. Or, is this possibly a male? Because the waddle seems pretty developed. Will she/he eventually fizzle out of it?

Would a video of the crowing be useful? Its crackly sounding, like a broke kazoo. It also gets extremely high to do it, like when doing this, it got in the nesting box on the perch to be high, and they NEVER stay in the nesting box this late, ever.


Picture i took yesterday: View attachment 3182125Extremely energetic, spunky, and out of the two (Sebright, Trixie, Japanese, Dixie) Trixie seems to be slightly dominant, but they aren’t aggressive and i never have seen them make contact

I had a barred rock pullet who would absolutely SCREAM after she laid an egg. she would stand on the ramp from the coop to the run, and just LET EVERYONE KNOW about it! It was kind of a disruptive thing for my particular neighborhood, so we did regime her and her sister (but we rehomed them to a flock with two of their other hatch mates, so we were lucky there!) Good luck