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Hen or cockerel

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  • 25-03-2022 9:39am
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    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭


    We have a stray. Hen can stay, cockerel will go. Any farmers out there know the difference by looking at it?




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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Looks like a chicken to me 🤣... Sorry couldn't resist.

    If your in FB, maybe try backyard chickens Ireland and give a full body photo



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    I don't think there be eggs for breakfast...



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979




  • Registered Users Posts: 40 topofthewind


    Head looks exactly like the local hens here. I’d say it’s a hen.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    "finger lickin" tell the kids you got in Aldi...



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  • Registered Users Posts: 214 ✭✭farmerphil135


    Looks like an aul hybrid hen. Does it have spurs? Or cock feathers?



  • Registered Users Posts: 19,027 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    You can get banned from boards.ie for posting cock photos



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    No idea what any of those things are 🤣. I thought people could tell from the red leathery thing on its head. God I sound like such a city slicker. I’m not, both my parents are from farming backgrounds!



  • Registered Users Posts: 42 garlic bread




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭893bet


    Based on that image then you can have a Sunday dinner once rather than breakfast every morning.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 29,079 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I'd say it's a hen.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    More suitable for the pot than the oven.

    As a city slicker living in rural Ireland I have chickens( getting more tomorrow).

    I've even raised them for meat. I know a chicken doesn't come from Aldi 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Look up pictures of Rhode Island reds for comparisons between appearances of the hens and roosters of that breed.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Given that it is a Rhode Island Red hybrid it is probably a hen, they are sex linked so the breeder spots and removes the rooster at birth by feather colour. They aren't commonly bred but are the most common hen. Ie they are bred by a small few and hatched in very large numbers in incubators.


    Unless you have some one near by breeding them or had the conflux of events to throw out such a hen, unlikely.


    What are its legs like?



    Personally going by size and colour I would reckon a hen.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Here’s another image




  • Registered Users Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Hen.

    Size of it, the small foot spur, it's breed.


    A young hen at that, point of lay pullet, probably 15 weeks.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    I'd cut its wing feathers on one side if I was you.


    Some one thought just because she was behind a 12 foot wall that she was going to stay.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    I have the wing already cut 😉. Free eggs wohoo



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Stephen_Maturin


    An old trick is to stick the edge of a piece of card under some of the neck feathers - if the feather tips are more pointed/trianguluar that suggests a cockeral, the tips of hens feathers are said to be more rounded



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,133 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    It's a mature hybrid hen (not a Rhode Island) by the size of her comb and wattles and their colour. Her legs also look greyish in colour with noticeable scales in the picture with indicates she is mature. A pol would have yellow legs and less mature comb and wattles. She does look healthy and best of luck with her.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Deub


    At that size, a cockerel would be crowing.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Turns out she’s a hen. She’s popping out eggs that make Tesco large eggs look like peanuts



  • Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    Perhaps it is transitioning op



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    She can transition into an ostrich for all I care, as long as she stays laying eggs



  • Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭KieferFan69


    Please don’t kill her



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    why not? Talk about a renewable animal. Sunday dinner mmmm.



    im kidding. It’ll be a family pet after it’s finished laying 🙂



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Not really, it takes an hour & a half to boil an ostrich egg. Don't know if that is for a soft or hard boiled one



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