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Hens & Cockerels???? My husband wants to butcher my hens.
The only way to know for sure is to keep waiting to see which ones start popping eggs out in a few weeks... cause I don't want to kill off chickens that are still cross-dressing.- Avoness
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Hens & Cockerels???? My husband wants to butcher my hens.
Don't tell my husband that he'll be angry cause these were supposed to be all pullets only. So someone sexed them wrong before we bought them... All bought from a bin "with pullets only". Our silver wyandotts were supposed to be hens only too and we know we have one male for certain.- Avoness
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Garden turned chicken pen/coop!
Unfortunately, they will be chicken dinner according to my husband... We are still struggling to sex them since only one has crowed and that is the one on the left from the two in the pic. The one on the right I think is a hen, since it clucks like a chicken and has started nesting. There is a...- Avoness
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- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Hens & Cockerels???? My husband wants to butcher my hens.
Okay so my bloody Rhode Island Reds are giving us head aches... We know for sure that I have at least 1 Rooster, because the bugger started crowing last week... which means the chopping block for him. (For those who cant bare the idea of butchering a perfectly good rooster, I'll give...- Avoness
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Garden turned chicken pen/coop!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Grew up raising in town chickens on and off for years. Currently my husband decided he wanted to raise chickens but they have become mine. We turned my huge fenced in garden into a chicken pen and my greenhouse into a chicken coop...- Avoness
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