WHAT GENDER?

[Robin'sBrood]

Well, I eat fertile eggs everyday and haven't become pregnant with a chick yet!

Seriously, as long as a chicken doesn't sit on those fertile eggs and get them growing, you'd never know they are fertile. Keep Tweet, you'll love him even more when he's all grown up and protecting your, excuse me, HIS girls.

 

[kjsgems]

Thank you again for the help! I have to say that I am very close to keeping Tweet. He is my favorite took the girls outside while working on the coop (husband working) me sitting with the chicks! Sitting there watching them Tweet kept coming up to me letting me pick him up. I really have learned a lot from this site what a great place!

 

[pinkfeather]

Aww, Tweet The Sweet (that just sounded like a good name for him, lol

) sounds like a very good rooster. Really though, if your selling him because you're worried about fertile eggs, then don't. I'm sure you won't even tell they're fertile unless you incubate them.

 

[Judy]

Actually, it's not even that easy to tell a fertile from a nonfertile egg. Has to do with a tiny white spot on the yolk and whether it is a dot or a dot with a ring around it, sort of. Called a bullseye if you are curious and want to do a search. Certainly you will never know the difference by flavor.

There is nothing wrong with having a flock of hens only. But I personally feel that a good rooster is a good idea, for those who can keep one; just more a normal way of life for them. When there is no roo, one hen will usually take the role of the roo to a point, be the leader, etc. Again, nothing wrong with this, just somehow not the same to me, and I'm glad I can keep roos here. And as mentioned, they are usually great protectors, will lay down their life to protect their hens. Besides, they are gorgeous!

 

[Judy]

BTW, I have an EE who looks just like Rosie. I have been assuming it is a he, because the comb has three distinct rows of bumps, instead of one row down the middle. So glad to hear someone say Rosie is colored like a hen; maybe mine is too! Although I would not have minded an EE roo. I think with EE's you never really know for sure til they crow or lay an egg. And on top of that, they say hens can sometimes crow....

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

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Out of my Birchen Ameraucana Project I keep getting roosters of that exact colour...... so that is not a "pullet-only" colour. And since you can see the pink comb already in the pic I am still betting roo on rosie.

 

[klf73]

I agree, there is no pullet coloring for EE's. I am also betting Rosie is a roo, that comb is very red from what I can see of it...

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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It's not always roos that have a 3 row pea comb - one of my 3 EE pullets had a wide, 3-row comb and is now laying eggs. It's not the white & grey colors that makes me think Rosie is a pullet (some EE roos are that color)- it's the color pattern on her feathers.