The EE braggers thread!!!

[FVRM]

Yes SHE is laying.

that's impossible. only males have those colors females are always dull colored to avoid predators. are you sure? if it's a girl, we might have found the most vivid colored female in all the chicken world.

 

[jerryse]

Yes SHE is laying.

Well look at the vent ( exit ramp) a laying hen will have a large moist pliable vent a rooster or pullet not laying will have a small tight opening . I suspect you have other chickens that are laying .

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Yes SHE is laying.

Well, get in touch with Guinness, because "she" has a full set of saddle and hackle feathers and the comb and coloring of a rooster.............

 

[Crickett30]

I will check the vent tomorrow but if I recall roosters crow AND mate with hens & DO NOT lay eggs. But what do I know I'm just a newbie!

 

[Hinotori]

Some roosters take a while to crow and mate. I've had them take 8 months or more depending on breed. If there is another dominant male, they may never mate or crow.

I had a silkie that had the biggest comb and her head looked like a rooster. She had female body and laid about a handful of eggs a year witnessed in the act of pushing it out of the cloaca twice. Never broody. She also crowed with the rooster in the mornings. Telling me to get them scratch. She had a huge deformed ovary.

 

[FVRM]

I will check the vent tomorrow but if I recall roosters crow AND mate with hens & DO NOT lay eggs. But what do I know I'm just a newbie!

don't take these posts in a bad way, everyone here is very passionate when it comes to chickens

lol

 

[FVRM]

Some roosters take a while to crow and mate. I've had them take 8 months or more depending on breed. If there is another dominant male, they may never mate or crow.

I had a silkie that had the biggest comb and her head looked like a rooster. She had female body and laid about a handful of eggs a year witnessed in the act of pushing it out of the cloaca twice. Never broody. She also crowed with the rooster in the mornings. Telling me to get them scratch. She had a huge deformed ovary.

yes i've heard about these defects. it happens in humans also. I know about a woman who had both ovaries and testes.

 

[jerryse]

I will check the vent tomorrow but if I recall roosters crow AND mate with hens & DO NOT lay eggs. But what do I know I'm just a newbie!

How embarrassing for me . After 50+ years around and raising chickens I find I do not know a hen from a rooster . I think I will go hide under my chair .

 

[Crickett30]

Also a while back she had vent gleet. Correct me if I'm wrong but roosters don't get this....right?

 

[Hinotori]

Also a while back she had vent gleet. Correct me if I'm wrong but roosters don't get this....right?

Roosters can get it.