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The Great Chicken Identity Crisis: Hen, Rooster, or Fowl Play?

Welcome to the cluck-tastic conundrum of “Hen or Rooster?

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The Great Chicken Identity Crisis: Hen, Rooster, or Fowl Play?
Hen or Rooster? …. Or both?!
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Yesterday I posted about my ‘roosters’ head shaking behaviour, and I was told this is actually a hen, or it was intersex, or it was a rooster. I’ve taken some better pictures and I’d love to know your opinion It does not crow, I’ve had it for a week only and prior owner says it attempts to and then goes silent after the first 0.5 seconds of what sound like a crow… It’s extremely protective of the rest of the flock and acts like a rooster, walks around quite up right and dominate. I am told it is a Partridge…

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