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Post by lavandulagirl on Jun 17, 2011 11:06:55 GMT -5
  It's a 4 month old EE. Comb and legs larger than the other birds this age. No crow. |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jun 17, 2011 11:07:33 GMT -5
I'm personally leaning towards male, but there's no crow...
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 17, 2011 13:10:45 GMT -5
I think it's a birdie. ;o)
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Post by steev on Jun 17, 2011 14:38:14 GMT -5
You're absolutely right; it's no crow; an albino crow would have pink eyes. Got to be a rooster, the strong, silent type.
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Post by seedywen on Jun 17, 2011 15:38:14 GMT -5
Perhaps, all will be revealed in another month:)
Dang it though! I'm growing a little tired of having to raise my RIR for months before finding for sure...to be sure...who's a rooster and whose not! Anyone raising backyard breeding sex-link chicks?
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jun 17, 2011 16:12:08 GMT -5
I have a couple sex links, but am not breeding them. (Mine are both female). My understanding, from breeders I know, is that they are not good for broodiness. Of course, if you plan it right, you could have someone else brood the eggs. A breed known for being mamas.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jun 28, 2011 19:12:57 GMT -5
Maybe it's a hermaphrodite (they're rare but they do exist) or has a pituitary tumor (that can somtimes cause an otherwise female chicken to develop male characteristics.
Knowing what I do about mythology, this would actually be a little worrying. After all, if a rooster lays and egg on a dung pile, and a toad comes along and sits on it until it hatches you get a Basilisk. If your entire farm turns into a barren desert overnight, or you see something that looks like a cross between a rooster and a dragon, that is killing everything it looks at (literally it looks at it and it drops dead) now you know why, and it's time to break out the weasels, mirrors, and real roosters ;D
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Post by steev on Jun 28, 2011 19:43:03 GMT -5
Basilisk is good with tomatoes and mozzarella.
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Post by michaeljohnson on Jul 1, 2011 10:31:54 GMT -5
The biggest Cockerel I have ever seen -which I once bought for christmas dinner when it was on sale at a market butchers weighed in at a massive 14lbs fully dressed at that ??- must have been like a ruddy Ostrich before they killed it  - very tasty too. |
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Post by gakaren on Jul 4, 2011 22:52:04 GMT -5
Back about 30 yrs. ago....  I raised some buff orps and had all the roosters butchered. They weighed in between 10-15 lbs.! They were the most moist, tender birds I'd ever had. I had to give a bunch of them away as I didn't have room in my freezers...my son used one freezer for his trapping animals.  |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 17, 2011 9:22:02 GMT -5
This bird has spent the last week testing his crow. Yvette has officially been renamed Gaz (don't ask me... the 13 year old picked it.)
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- very tasty too.
I raised some buff orps and had all the roosters butchered. They weighed in between 10-15 lbs.! They were the most moist, tender birds I'd ever had. I had to give a bunch of them away as I didn't have room in my freezers...my son used one freezer for his trapping animals. 