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    Ended Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Oh wow thank you! That means a lot! ❤️
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    Ended Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Thank you! Shes such a sweetie ❤️
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    What’s Considered to be too Aggressive Rooster Courtship?

    None of our hens are fearful of him at all. They all kinda bunch around him most of the time and preen with him, chill next to him, basically anywhere he goes they go. It’s pretty funny watching him randomly dart across the yard (I assume frolicking?) and they all waddle after him with their...
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    Ended Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Thank you! Shes such a sweetheart! She had a bad case of bumblefoot that she battled for almost a month after we got her and she molted hard during it but she recovered very well! Shes our fluffy butt princess now 😂
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    Ended Miss BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Name: Pip Age: 1 year, 9 months Color: Lavender Breed: Orpington
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    Ended Mister BYC Beauty Pageant—Official 2025 BYC Mini-Contest

    Name: Big Ben Age: 8 months Color: Lavender Breed: Orpington Edit: hubby and I agreed he needs a top hat, bow tie, and a monocle 😂
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    What’s Considered to be too Aggressive Rooster Courtship?

    We have 7 almost 2 year old hens (about a year and 9 months) and 2 7.5 year old pullets. Almost all our older hens are in different stages of molting so I understand the rejection at the moment. There’s a few that he’s pretty relentless with that he tries to mate with frequently, 1 that is...
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    What’s Considered to be too Aggressive Rooster Courtship?

    Our 8 month old roo has recently really picked up on courting our hens which I understand is his hormones raging and so far he’s been a pretty good gentleman. He hasn’t whooped up on our hens at all even when rejected (which 9 out of 10 times he is) he just takes it when they retaliate and he...
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    Rooster Courting Behavior

    Yeah I don’t let my kiddo out of my sight for that reason. 😬
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    Rooster Courting Behavior

    Good to know! I didn’t know that lol. It seems like most homesteading videos or guides on YouTube praise the “rooster dance” and I assumed it was a trait they needed. We’re very relieved to hear he seems to be a gentleman so far. Thanks for the reply!
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    Rooster Courting Behavior

    Thank you for the reply! That’s relieving that he seems to be a good boy so far lol. This is our first roo and we didn’t really know what to expect or look for. To us he seems to be a pretty sweet guy and he loves our 3 year old (the treat man lol) so we’d be heartbroken to have to get rid of him.
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    Rooster Courting Behavior

    Hi all. I’ve posted before about getting a few successfully fertilized eggs (finally!) from our flock and we finally witnessed our young roo doing the deed. He’s about 7.5 months old right now and has been part of the flock for about a month and the hens seem to have accepted him pretty well...
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    Fertilized?

    One of our 6 month old pullets laid her first egg today. Her and our roo are hardly ever apart but we have never seen him mate or even attempt to even while we’re not outside. We thought we’d check to see if he just likes to do it in private 😂. This is my second post like this lol. Just want to...
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    Fertilized or Not?

    He’s about 6 months we were told. He hasn’t crowed, danced around the hens, or attempted mounting, but he has chased the younger hens a little bit. They’re all mid molt (1.5 year olds) except for our 5 month old hens so I figured that was it. And we’ve only had him for a little over 2 weeks. Not...
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    Fertilized or Not?

    We haven’t seen our roo mating at all yet, not sure if the hens have accepted him but we cracked open this baby. Is it fertilized or not?
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