The crowing FEMALE sebright

Chicken poppy

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I have a crowing silver Sebright (5 mo) that crows. I have had countless of people tell me its a female, so thats whats interesting.

Something i notice is that this one has had a huge crowing gap. Whenever i have had roosters (ive had quite a few.) once they start crowing, there are sometimes gaps between crowing again, but normally they just get so excited they continue to crow 24/7, and sometimes fizzle out a little bit on crowing.

This one had about a 3 week (or even more!) gap of crowing.

Like the Sebright crowed once or twice, then didn’t crow for 3 weeks or so, then started crowing again! So heres my question

Assuming its a female (like everyone says) will i be stuck with a crowing female?? I mean, thats the #1 reason i don’t want roosters in the first place! Because of crowing. Or, is this possibly a male? Because the waddle seems pretty developed. Will she/he eventually fizzle out of it?

Would a video of the crowing be useful? Its crackly sounding, like a broke kazoo. It also gets extremely high to do it, like when doing this, it got in the nesting box on the perch to be high, and they NEVER stay in the nesting box this late, ever.


Picture i took yesterday:
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Extremely energetic, spunky, and out of the two (Sebright, Trixie, Japanese, Dixie) Trixie seems to be slightly dominant, but they aren’t aggressive and i never have seen them make contact
 

Jess89

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I have a crowing silver Sebright (5 mo) that crows. I have had countless of people tell me its a female, so thats whats interesting.

Something i notice is that this one has had a huge crowing gap. Whenever i have had roosters (ive had quite a few.) once they start crowing, there are sometimes gaps between crowing again, but normally they just get so excited they continue to crow 24/7, and sometimes fizzle out a little bit on crowing.

This one had about a 3 week (or even more!) gap of crowing.

Like the Sebright crowed once or twice, then didn’t crow for 3 weeks or so, then started crowing again! So heres my question

Assuming its a female (like everyone says) will i be stuck with a crowing female?? I mean, thats the #1 reason i don’t want roosters in the first place! Because of crowing. Or, is this possibly a male? Because the waddle seems pretty developed. Will she/he eventually fizzle out of it?

Would a video of the crowing be useful? Its crackly sounding, like a broke kazoo. It also gets extremely high to do it, like when doing this, it got in the nesting box on the perch to be high, and they NEVER stay in the nesting box this late, ever.


Picture i took yesterday: View attachment 3182125 Extremely energetic, spunky, and out of the two (Sebright, Trixie, Japanese, Dixie) Trixie seems to be slightly dominant, but they aren’t aggressive and i never have seen them make contact
So I have a Golden Sebright that I thought was a female also and then HE started crowing and and few weeks later his tail feathers started getting longer and asked on here about it also. But looks from the picture your pullet is a cockerel.
 

Chookwagn

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I have a crowing silver Sebright (5 mo) that crows. I have had countless of people tell me its a female, so thats whats interesting.

Something i notice is that this one has had a huge crowing gap. Whenever i have had roosters (ive had quite a few.) once they start crowing, there are sometimes gaps between crowing again, but normally they just get so excited they continue to crow 24/7, and sometimes fizzle out a little bit on crowing.

This one had about a 3 week (or even more!) gap of crowing.

Like the Sebright crowed once or twice, then didn’t crow for 3 weeks or so, then started crowing again! So heres my question

Assuming its a female (like everyone says) will i be stuck with a crowing female?? I mean, thats the #1 reason i don’t want roosters in the first place! Because of crowing. Or, is this possibly a male? Because the waddle seems pretty developed. Will she/he eventually fizzle out of it?

Would a video of the crowing be useful? Its crackly sounding, like a broke kazoo. It also gets extremely high to do it, like when doing this, it got in the nesting box on the perch to be high, and they NEVER stay in the nesting box this late, ever.


Picture i took yesterday: View attachment 3182125 Extremely energetic, spunky, and out of the two (Sebright, Trixie, Japanese, Dixie) Trixie seems to be slightly dominant, but they aren’t aggressive and i never have seen them make contact
You female is a male :D
 

NatJ

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Isn't it just a recessive mutation? Which would mean that if they have it, their offspring will all have it when bred to another bird with the gene
http://kippenjungle.nl/sellers/page3.html
This page says henfeathering is dominant. That would mean a rooster could show hen feathering, and carry the recessive for normal feathering.

There is also the difficulty of selecting which hens have the genes-- you have to work out their genes by the appearance of their fathers and their sons. That calls for a lot of test mating, if you are trying to get them to all to breed true for the trait. (Just as bad as trying to select roosters for egg color!)
 

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