The Sussex thread!

[kada6305]

Thank you, that clarifies it.  Pretty boy - and obliging to not crow before 6:30... unlike my unruly bunch who start when the neighbor leaves for work around 5 am... and don't shut up almost all day.  Just takes one.. or even a hen.. and off they go again for an encore..

I hope it doesn't change once he's outside!! Lol!!

 

[phoenixrotts]

That is a really inventive name, love it!

Pretty boy too.

Thanks! He's quite proud of himself for coming up with it. He's pretty quiet most of the day, only crowing in the morning and a couple of times during the day. I have caught him grabbing my hens by the neck a few times though. If that continues and/or becomes an injury causing behavior "Joe" might end up in another part of the yard!

 

[Darkfeather]

I have a couple young birds I think are speckled Sussex. But one of them has yet to grow a tail!

I think the one without a tail (first two pictures) might be a roo and the other a pullet?

 

[RachaelS]

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I am so happy to hear I was wrong, I don't say that often

 

[Johnn]

I am so happy to hear I was wrong, I don't say that often

Haha, I think he is a boy so he will definitely be kept as my other cockerel is being culled on Thursday because he is really aggressive towards me and I have had enough!

 

[RachaelS]

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Good for you for doing that! It is hard, but not worth the stress.

 

[Johnn]

Good for you for doing that! It is hard, but not worth the stress.

It was a REALLY hard decision, the hardest I have had to make so far when keeping hens. But he has been attacking me since February, I think I have give him plenty of time to improve but he has just got nothing but worse.

 

[Johnn]

 

[NookNook01]

I'm So Excited....my SS is gettin So Pretty!!! She's showing off a bit.... Hanging out in the big girls Shack with my BO, Dark Brahma and Lil Cochin Roo'let.

 

[phoenixrotts]

So I had some suspicions about one of my chicks for a while, then I got over it. We picked up a rooster that someone was giving away about a week and a half ago now....and now my suspicions are back. Can anyone put them to rest once and for all? Is this a hen or a roo?? They're about 7 or 8 weeks old now.

Not sure if you can see the iridescent green in the back feathers.

And there's a couple of those suspicious looking iridescent green feathers in the tail as well.

And that comb is bigger than any of my other hens.

Those wattles are bigger than any of my other hens too.