Recent content by RorieRiveter

"Last season I dropped the temp. by 2 degrees & got 4 roosters & 14 hens." That's not a ratio I would complain about. It's better than 50/50.

Nuance is important here. It's all relative: pointy eggs versus less pointy eggs, smaller eggs versus larger eggs. There are no absolutes. Experience shows me that maintaining flexibility of thought and openness with curiosity brings new insights.

I have observed, over the course of several hatches in my Rcom egg shaped fully transparent rotating incubator, that medium eggs relative to larger eggs reliably produce more female chicks. In my first hatching the female to male ratio of hatched chicks was 50%. Eggs were randomly selected...

I've had Cuckoo Marans on 2 separate occasions, from different breeders, and in both cases these girls liked to stray from our yard by scaling a 4' fence, leave poopie in my neighbors' yards, and eat anything even vaguely resembling food, including rat poison from deep inside bait boxes. Their...

The herb epazote quells libido. Maybe get him a private chicken box and start his day with some fresh foraged epazote? It should be coming up just about everywhere anytime soon!

A rooster needs about a dozen hens to satisfy his needs. That's assuming all dozen hens are interested in mating. I keep a rooster to about 30 hens, some of whom are older and less interested. I find my roosters mellow a bit each year, so for the first two years I alternate them being in the hen...