Oh No – she can Crow!!
Well I guess Auntie Lil will have to be called Uncle Lil….she started crowing….eeek! Everybody told me that she was a he, since he towers over all the other chickens and bosses them around. So we have a Rooster. Rats. We ordered all hens and they gave us a free one, guess which one!
I still will call him a “hen-ster” and hopefully “he” will learn to behave! You do not need a rooster for the hens to lay eggs by the way. They will lay eggs anyway. You only need a rooster if you want the eggs to be feritized and to hatch chickens.
1Weasel
wrote on 6 July 2010 at 6:58
I think Auntie Lil might be a transgender hen. Sometimes when there’s no rooster one hen will take on that roll. Leave it to you to have one. Whatever it is the plumage is magnificent!
2Rusty
wrote on 6 July 2010 at 8:41
Okay, so now you can start another (chick) business. Or maybe you could just make him a cute outfit and and give him a microphone and he could be a hen impersonator.
3Melani
wrote on 6 July 2010 at 11:43
With beautiful feathers like that he could be a
drag queen…Just get him a tiara!
4Cathy Skarshaug
wrote on 15 July 2010 at 17:31
Nothing like a gender bender in the hen house to keep the girls feathers arranged & to make them laugh.