I raised 4 chicks this spring guaranteed to be pullets. Two were roosters. They started crowing before the combs were really large...sort of like an adolesent with a cracking voice.
I am new to this forum and recently returned to backyard chickens after many years of city living. My problem is a sudden influx of flies in the chicken pen. I seem to remember that there is some kind of lime that can be sprinkled on the dirt in the pen for fly control, but don't know which kind...