Chickens in puberty

The chickens look grown up but they're not. They have all of their feathers but the hens are not old enough to lay eggs yet. How can you tell if a chicken is in puberty? You should hear the roosters try to crow. It starts out fine but halfway through they sound like someone is trying to ring their neck. I wanted to try to get a recording of their attempts but they were kind of shy when I was taking their pictures and apparently didn't want to show off if front of me.
They have been some mornings, when I'm leaving for work, already trying to crow. I leave at about 5am. It's only barely starting to get light out. But now the sun is rising later so maybe they are crowing at the yard light. This one here is a bantam rooster. He was the first one to try and start crowing. He's not quite there yet but give him a little time and he will have it perfected. We refer to him as Boss Hog. He likes to boss the other chickens and turkeys around.This is two of the three turkeys. We are still not sure what they are. Right now it looks like we might have one tom and two hens. Have not decided on names for them yet.This is the other rooster. Not sure what we will name him yet. But as you can see Boss wanted to make sure he was in this shot too.This here is one of our two turkines. This chicken does not have feathers on their neck. This one here, the oldest one, has named Reba. The other one is either Dolly or Kelly. I'm not sure what she has settled on.

Thought of the day:
"Your feelings are your feelings; don't let anyone try to tell you otherwise."



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