This seems like a silly question, but is this a rooster?

[21hens-incharge]

me too!

Could be a while. The bird resides down under.
get the coffee goin it's gonna be a long night.

 

[Embalmergirl]

If it does happen, it will be a fabulous egg.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I don't even get this excited for my pullets to lay.

(Cannot find the nail biting emoticon)

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I recently saw a show about chickens where this woman shared a story of her hen turned roo. Had the body of a hen but crowed and tried to mate with other hens.
She had testing done and found the bird to be genetically female but lacking in some female hormones. The woman rescues egg factory hens and the best guess they can make is at some point the hen was injured. Damaging her ovaries. So... with the loss of some of her female hormones the male hormones kicked in. Her comb and waddles swelled and she started to act like a he. Stopped laying eggs and couldn't reproduce.
But a hen can become a rooster.

Hopefully not the case here. You just have a bad ass crowing hen!

 

[blythe1987]

Sorry to disappoint guys but no egg yet! It's 8am here but the other 2 ladies seem to lay quite late in the day. I've only found their eggs after lunch time. So the waiting game continues.

Although since I've only had them since Tuesday she may just be taking time to settle in before wowing us with her feminine egg laying abilities.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I will root for an egg from that very interesting bird for you.

I am still amazed how clear her crow was. Truly a marvel.

 

[Embalmergirl]

I'm patient. I can wait. I'm also waiting for my Easter Egger Frances to lay her first egg. She's 5 months old.

 

[andreanar]

I'm patient. I can wait. I'm also waiting for my Easter Egger Frances to lay her first egg. She's 5 months old.

Pshh Im IMpatient! Still waiting on eggs from my 6 month olds! Dang lazy girls

 

[debid]

Because it's a mixed breed and we don't know exactly what is in there, I'm going to guess that it's a male that inherited hen feathering.

This would make him genetically male and he sports a rooster comb but he'll never have the rooster feathers to make him look the part. You should see him act the part, though. Crowing, dancing, mating...

BTW, the seller might not have known. His mother could have passed him the hen feathering trait (which is dominant) without that trait being visible in her since females look like females with or without it.

 

[blythe1987]

Because it's a mixed breed and we don't know exactly what is in there, I'm going to guess that it's a male that inherited hen feathering.

This would make him genetically male and he sports a rooster comb but he'll never have the rooster feathers to make him look the part. You should see him act the part, though. Crowing, dancing, mating...

Yeah, I'm not going to accept hen-status until I see that egg. There was no crowing that I saw this morning and I haven't seen any other obviously rooster behaviour but we have the comb, spurs and some crowing so there's a lot that points to rooster. I'm not sure how long I should wait for laying though.