Rooster Or Hen? Early Signs It's A Rooster 

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I tell me rooster everyday (4 months old ) we don’t do that crowing mess around here (keeping my fingers crossed he gets the message 😂😂)

@@lexx3423 lol your only way of having a rooster that doesn't crow is to not have a rooster tbh. I have a black minorca rooster and hes super talkative. I enjoy that though 😆

@@KingKoinPlays Roosters are illegal in the town I live in....I

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That happened to us last year at Tractor Supply. We bought Red Sex Links that can be sexed at hatch by color. Light colored are roosters, caramels are hens. Well, they were all caramel colored day old chicks. But at a week old I noticed when I put my hand in to change out their water or food all the chicks would scurry in fright except for one. That would run up to investigate what I was doing. I knew right then it was a rooster. I was right. From then on he got braver and would try to attack my hand every time I tried to change out water or food and that was only when they were just weeks old. They’re now a year old and he's the meanest dang rooster we've ever had!! He attacks us when we go in to feed them or gather eggs. We have to go in with an umbrella now to fend him off. Incubating eggs now and his butt is history. He's ginormous, strong and breaking down our 10 hens with his weight so we've separated him now. Can't wait to get rid of this evil rooster! We've had chickens for years and never had one so darn mean. Update: We did get rid of him. I tell ya, he won’t be attacking anyone else. I’ve never in all my life had a demonic rooster until we had him. He was just evil. We didn’t even want have any offspring from him because we’ve heard many people say that it can be something in their bloodline. It was so mean we had to put shoe strings on his feet and tie his feet together to help prevent him from jumping up and flogging us. He could still walk since we left enough room for him to move his feet freely and we cut off his freakin 3” daggers too! But he would still jump up so we still had to go in with an umbrella to gather eggs so we put him back in a separate pen until we got rid of his demonic butt! Sad because he was a stunningly beautiful rooster to see. He was huge and just absolutely gorgeous.

I just want the roos to live and I swear I saw some chickens down by the beach do you think I can contribute to that flock with my roos

@@hammermantbg Do not release any chickens or roosters into the wild. That's not kind. They're a domesticated animal and need human care to be healthy and happy.

Angela McLamb 😂 I’m sorry your comment just made me smile! I just got 13 chicks from tractor supply yesterday and I’m so scared I’m going to have like 4 roosters!

@@LoVe-po7xc can you believe i got 9 chickens from tractor supply and 3 where hens

Thanks for the tip!

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Amen, @dorcasmcleod9439 ...I unsubbed as soon as I heard that. No offense, but I would rather subscribe to people who have the truth.

Does the alpha ever mount others ? I’m just trying to make sure I’m not getting rid of an alpha hen

@@superhornyalienWhen I only had hens in my flock, one of my hen became "the rooster" to show the others that she was the boss. Now I have a rooster. But I never saw my (ex) alpha hen try to mount others. Question, do you only have hens?

Can you please post video of her

lol! Great name

My alpha hen crows as well. She warns of predators and crows when it’s her time to lay. She’s quite the character. Definitely the dominant, aggressive lady. She’s been a handful. But she’s a good leader!

Probably nothing. We have a lot of roosters but because they're all raised together, they don't really fight. They get into some skirmishes, but nobody gets hurt.

Wife's friend got 14 chics from bomgaars and all of them were roos.....

Me too

I had a rooster that crowed all night long until I turned off the light in the kitchen window. I guess he thought the sun was coming up!.😮

Was there anything actually said?

It depends on the neighborhood. I'd check with your city council.

@Riyaz Ahmad Bangee No, mine are Golden Comets. Also known as Red Sex Links. They lay really large brown eggs and lay even throughout the winter. We've never owned game birds. Never been fond of game birds or meat birds.

Oh no!! I ordered all pullets and have two chicks I’m not so sure about, who run right up to my hand and investigate. Definitely not as weary as the other chicks. I cannot have roosters where I live so I was hoping this wasn’t the case. But I also have a brood of meat chicks, so they may end up in that brooder :( sad! One is a beautiful Black Copper Maran chick and I was hoping it was female. I guess we shall see. All the others are supposed to be red sex link. And the one that may be a roo has a red tipped beak unlike the others. But a couple of the “female” red sex links I was sent are yellow. So I’m not so sure about this brood.

They can crow at any age, but mine usually start when they're 10 weeks old or so. That's a very general rule, though. I've had readers with chicks that try crowing at just a few days old.

I believe I’m in the same boat as you right now. I got 4 pretty sure 2 are male thinking 3 possibly. I don’t know what to do.

i had some awhile ago had to get rid of them due to city ordinances but i correctly guessed the hen/rooster ratio if they have straight legs that are taller then the rest =Roo the others with the slightly curved and lower to the ground=hen there was one rooster surprise but that was the barred rock because theyre all black. and couldnt tell with that breed but rhose island red u can do above sexing.

Really hard to say without seeing a photo!

@@pamperedchickenmama says the chick who talked for 10 minutes without a single picture........ Pot meet kettle

What breeds are they and how old are they? Depending on the breed females have combs too. If you brought pullets and almost all of them are like that i would think it may be a breed thing rather than you got all roosters

Glad it was helpful!

Remove the hens add the pullets a week later add the hens this way they are not dominant at first

Are they drawing blood or just pecking at them? If it's not safe for the pullets, then I would integrate more slowly. But if the hens are just pecking at the pullets, they're trying to sort out who's the boss. It stops after a few days.

According to your info imma struggle telling if mine are roosters lol. Mine are rhode Island reds mixed with black minorca. I guess I'll have to wait and see lol

Glad it was helpful!

Did the video help?

Living The Good Life With Backyard Chickens it helped a lot thank you

How’s the chick?

[milk n’ cookies] good

A Chick Named Stacy that’s good, what’s their name?