This is our "free rare chick" from our McMurray order earlier this summer. It's a White Crested Black Polish. My husband started calling him/her "Rock Star" and the name has stuck.
Quite fetching, yes?
Gotta love the "do"
Another view. Any guesses as to gender?
He's got waddles already - rooster?
Too bad he was too young to make it into the "do contest" a while back - a clear contender.
I think you're right about him being a roo. We have some white crested black Polish from a late spring hatch and I would say that none of them have wattles like that (yet) so maybe mine are girls! Woo hoo! They are so amusing to watch. Lovely pics!
HE rocks! I love the do. wish I didn't have so many roos so I could get one!
mine is about 5 months old & his/her waddles are much bigger than that.. but no comb. Do Polish chickens not get a comb? never crows either.. the boys treat this one just like the other girls so i am still nto sure what Matilda is. I love it when it rains.. she/he gets that punk rock do.. only her feathers are longer & more in her face than this one. I love this one's "hair"
This one is definitely a rooster, I have raised many of them, and Porkpal is right on and so is Claire.
Hi grey: if the hair is in the eyes you most defintely have a hen. And they are so funny, as the generally walk into things like a blind man.
Poor little girls!
she walks into my legs all the time then looks up, throwing her hair back with this look of " how dare you be in MY way" She flies into things too. She has yet to lay an egg. but her hair is kinda long.. & falls down all the way around her head. Like a bowl. except when it rains.. then the humidity takes over & it spikes.
Maybe someone could knit or crochet them headbands to keep the feathers out of their eyes....lol!!!
I was guessing it was probably a rooster, but I'm glad to get some confirmation. This batch of chicks are only about 3 months old, so seeing those wattles made me wonder.
When my daughters were gifted the first WCBP, I wanted to name it Phyllis (like Phyllis Diller-seriously, find a picture!!). I lost and the bird was named Mack. At about 4 months, Mack began to crow. Our dear friends gifted us a second WCBP who is much smaller. That one lays eggs and we do call her Phyllis! LOL I did notice the head feathers on the mail are more like feathers and on the female they are more like down but that could just be the case for our two. The roo also seems to see better than the hen.
Two years ago at the county fair, we were looking at all the birds and I fell in love with one but still don't have any. It was a Buff Laced Polish. http://www.mypetchicken.com/images/ChickenPix/medium/Studio_BffLcdPlshHn_5488_M.jpg
I'm trying to get the kids interested in 4H and showing birds and there are not a lot of fancy or different breeds at our local fair. I did see the biggest most beautiful Barred Rock Roo. He was huge!
Which way is that Polish hen facing?
We have a polish roo, they are a funny looking breed. We had a hen as well but she died over a year ago, we also had another polish roo that we couldn't keep. Too many roos. I find that the polish breed seems very skiddish. Does yours seem that way?
I'd be skittish too if I couldn't see what was going on around me!
mind does.. he's everywhere ( i know now that it is a roo) He jumps at teh slightest sound.. i touch him & you'd think i was killing him. but if i catch him & pick him up he likes to snuggle. I think its just because he can't see where he's going.
Our Polish can see just fine, his plume of feathers stands up higher. The hen we had had a big ole boufant looking plume and she couldn't see past that thing, we would trim it sometimes so she could see better. Our roo also likes petting when you catch him but he is a booger to catch. I think it must be the polish breed. We have 2 little hens that are mixed with him, one is mixed with an Australorp hen and the other a silkie and they both have the temperment or skiddishness of the polish roo.
Ours doesn't seem that skittish so far. He kept trying to get in all the camera shots. :) He was only beaten out in that regard by one of the Speckled Sussex.