The New Rooster

I’ve never seen anything like this! I mentioned on here yesterday about the rooster I heard crowing. We got those chicks in the last half of April. The Marans were probably 6 weeks old when we got them so they’re now at least 6-1/2 months old. Some things I’ve read say they don’t start crowing til they’re 5 months old. The other three roosters in that group were crowing at least two months ago. The last of three roosters has been gone for 2 weeks. Remember . . I had wanted to keep one but he was too aggressive.

When I told Vince that I heard an immature crow from that group of chickens, he didn’t believe me. All day yesterday I didn’t hear any more crowing. This morning I didn’t hear any more crowing. I was thinking I had imagined hearing that crow or maybe Wilbur had a frog in his throat and just sounded funny.

This afternoon when I was out watering the chickens . . I heard it again! Yay! I’m not crazy . . let! I kinda thought it was the Marans that’s developing colors and sure enough . . I tracked down the wimpy crow and it’s him. Darn! I was so hoping he wasn’t a rooster.

I came in the house and googled it and found that when there’s an overly aggressive rooster in the coop, sometimes that will delay the maturity of a less aggressive rooster so the aggressive one doesn’t kill him. It makes me fell better about getting rid of the other rooster .. at least I wasn’t the only one who saw that he was too aggressive.

I’m hoping that the new rooster will stay docile and he and Wilbur can be buddies and I can keep the new one. I’m not going to name him til I decide if we’re keeping him.

At least (1) I did hear a crow and (2) I know why he was late developing his masculinity.