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[AuntNomi]

Hmmmm......Really? Just any of my hens that lay brown eggs could produce an easter egger chick? What would my white egg layers have if I hatched the eggs? You have pictures of the rooster? I might try sweet talking the Hubby!! Where are you located?

 

[AuntNomi]

Oh he is Beautiful!

 

[AuntNomi]

Oh and I also see where you are. lol I get confused on here still sorry about the questions already answered. That's kinda far from here!

 

[Red Banks]

Hmmmm......Really? Just any of my hens that lay brown eggs could produce an easter egger chick? What would my white egg layers have if I hatched the eggs? You have pictures of the rooster? I might try sweet talking the Hubby!! Where are you located?

I posted the picture first. Near Tallahassee.

 

[Red Banks]

Oh and I also see where you are. lol I get confused on here still sorry about the questions already answered. That's kinda far from here!

Yes....it is too far just for a rooster!

 

[cmom]

Quote: I can relate. I hatched out around 200 chicks for myself and around 100 for a friend, a little over half turned out to be males of course. I have a feed store down the road from me that I get my feed from. The store has pens out back of it and I have taken many birds especially cockerels there and bartered for feed. Works out pretty good. Not long ago I had some of my project birds to re-home because I needed space for this years hatch. I took 22 project females from a Sex-Link project so I could not breed them because they were a mix and wouldn't breed true and 23 cockerels (not all at once). I do raise mostly heritage Rhode Island Whites and Rhode Island Reds. They are my current avatar. Good luck re-homing your boys, I feel for you..

 

[cmom]

All you Floridians make me crazy!!! Only because I grew up in Florida and now Im in the Arizona High Desert. Miss Florida!!!!!

You could always move back... Where did you grow up? Just Curious.

 

[Red Banks]

I can relate. I hatched out around 200 chicks for myself and around 100 for a friend, a little over half turned out to be males of course. I have a feed store down the road from me that I get my feed from. The store has pens out back of it and I have taken many birds especially cockerels there and bartered for feed. Works out pretty good. Not long ago I had some of my project birds to re-home because I needed space for this years hatch. I took 22 project females from a Sex-Link project so I could not breed them because they were a mix and wouldn't breed true and 23 cockerels (not all at once). I do raise mostly heritage Rhode Island Whites and Rhode Island Reds. They are my current avatar. Good luck re-homing your boys, I feel for you..

I can't imagine that many roosters!

Your RIR are beautiful!

 

[cmom]

Well I sure wish I could take one! I'd love to have one but my husband is not wanting me to get a rooster as we have one already! Good luck!

This is years ago, I wanted some males but my husband did not. I invested in a styrofoam incubator and thought it would be fun to hatch and it was. Now I had quite a few males. DH did have his favorite and when I went to sell some of the males he wanted to keep his special one which was OK by me as the cockerel was a fine bird and would work well with the breeding program I had in mind at the time. For each of my breeds I have one male and a spare just in case something would happen to one of them. One of my favorites, one morning when I went out to his coop, he was dead inside the coop with no indications of why he died during the night. I looked him over very good and felt nothing and didn't see anything. He was fine the evening before when I was out giving the birds their treats and collecting the eggs. Sometimes you just never know.

 

[cmom]

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It's taken a lot of years with selective breeding. Actually my avatar is some of my quite young males in their bachelor pen and coop.