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Yetta is off to his new home in the country where he will free range and have his own flock someday. Our cousin with a much bigger mixed flock verified it's a roo. Beautiful bird, at least we can visit him now and again. (Bandaid best taken off fast, sniff sniff.)🥺

It's quite possible it was the post office, for sure -- they have been having their troubles recently. But I probably should have gone with a closer hatchery just to cut down on the potential problems. Unfortunately none of our local friends had chicks up at the right time...

I should have asked my cousin. She took one look at the pictures and said "that's a roo". He'll have a good home, but I will miss him like crazy.

We're going to have to rename him Yentl!

Yes, was kind of a mistake. A friend recommended them and half the chicks were DOA and another two died within 12 hours. The post office may have contributed but my interactions with the hatchery were not optimal. Got the second brood elsewhere and they've been a delight and 100% healthy.

FWIW fortunately our cousin can take him. Will have a good home and be a free ranger. So that is some solace.

Ugh, thank you. I'll let the rest of the jury weigh in but I was afraid of that. S/he's been so incredibly mellow, it is a bit of a shock. No cockerel behavior to speak of at any point in brooding them up.

Note: the rooster across the street is allowed because the neighbors there have a farmable-sized parcel, according to the town bylaws, while we, with the actual original farmstead in the area, are a third of an acre shy of having the minimum acreage and were ineligible to be grandfathered in as...

Meet beautiful Yetta, our Blue-laced Red Wyandotte. She was a bonus chick in our first spring brood. She's about 21 weeks now...and she started crowing two weeks ago. And we are not allowed to have roosters in our town (the law says roosters, not crowing fowl, fortunately). Now, in reading...