We got Rudie (Rudy the Ruby Red Rooster originally, but we changed it to Rudie in crossing fingers for a girl) from a feedstore "Assorted Bantams" bin, straight comb, yellow legs, dark red feathers, I am assuming bantam RIR/Rhode Island as other options seemed too exotic for WilCo to stock. Currently Rudie, his sister and brother are about 4 weeks old, sister being a blue OEGB and brother being a black bantam cochin who will need to find a new home unfortunately.
Rudie has always been a little spicy, however nothing out of range of sassy girls we've had in the past. Physically, Rudie is giving me mixed signals. He's got a tiny yellow comb (the two OEGB cockerels we already got rid of got wattles and combs much quicker, they were even crowing! Even our bantam cochin cockerel has much more comb & wattle) his legs are slightly thicker than the OEGB girls, but she's a much smaller bird overall so it feels like an unfair comparison. The biggest thing is Rudie is naked. This bird just does not have feathers. He's been feathering slower than the cochin which was surprising!
Here's a comparison of Rudie vs his cochin brother's comb/wattles (Rudie has no wattles currently), but also compared to his OEGB sister and black cochin brother (they've all had the same nutrition so we are perplexed by this naked ostrich baby). Mainly looking for sex/gender ID, no matter his breed as long as he's a lady he can stay in our dorky mixed backyard flock Thanks in advance!
Rudie has always been a little spicy, however nothing out of range of sassy girls we've had in the past. Physically, Rudie is giving me mixed signals. He's got a tiny yellow comb (the two OEGB cockerels we already got rid of got wattles and combs much quicker, they were even crowing! Even our bantam cochin cockerel has much more comb & wattle) his legs are slightly thicker than the OEGB girls, but she's a much smaller bird overall so it feels like an unfair comparison. The biggest thing is Rudie is naked. This bird just does not have feathers. He's been feathering slower than the cochin which was surprising!
Here's a comparison of Rudie vs his cochin brother's comb/wattles (Rudie has no wattles currently), but also compared to his OEGB sister and black cochin brother (they've all had the same nutrition so we are perplexed by this naked ostrich baby). Mainly looking for sex/gender ID, no matter his breed as long as he's a lady he can stay in our dorky mixed backyard flock Thanks in advance!