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    Keep hatching out all roos

    The eggs are off my own birds. My hatching last year was 6 roos and 1 hen, my current rooster is one of those roosters that hatched out. I hatched some out almost 5 weeks ago and they all had the distinct white spot, white legs, 2 different length wing feathers, and currently are developing...
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    Keep hatching out all roos

    I'm on my 3rd incubation in my nurture right 360, my 1st hatching turned out 6 roos & 1 hen, my 2nd hatching turned out all 12 nothing but roos, and my 3rd batch is hatching now and so far I have 14 that appear to be all roos(I'm hatching barred rocks so fairly easy to tell). I have it set to...
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    1st try at incubating

    My flock is about a year and a half old now, my kids have been hounding me to hatch some chicks, so I decided to try and hatch some chicks to add to my flock. I went with a nurture right 360 incubator after considerable reading. The incubation went OK, but the humidity ran pretty high in it. I'm...
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    Just wanted to give an update. My 7 girls are now laying 5-7 eggs a day. My cockerel is now about 7 months old and IMO has turned out to be a very pretty boy. He has so many layers and depth to his coloration ranging from the white and black hackles to his blue/green tail feathers and is on...
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    And it's official, he went from nothing but a few squeeks and squawks to full on crowing this morning. There coop is outside my 7 year olds window and it startled him awake at 6 am when he let out his 1st crows. He had never heard a rooster crow before, and out of the blue he crows like he has...
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    He's now roughly 4 months and I'm gonna say he is a cockerel. He is still pretty dark in color, but has a good size comb & wattles, spurs have started developing, legs are considerably larger than the hens that are 2 weeks older than him, much longer tail feathers that stand up compared to the...
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    As he's getting older, he does appear to be getting slightly lighter in color, so I'm still hopeful that he is indeed a cockerel. I just got done today finishing a 4'x16' chicken run that I built to attach to the end of there existing coop, so even the birds get a Christmas present this year.
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    I thought it was a cockerel, but I wasn't sure after reading about them being sex linked, and his coloration being so similar to the pullets. He definately has the attitude of a rooster already as he comes out in front of the pullets whenever I open the door. He will be staying as he has already...
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    New guy in central Florida, trying to see if I have 7 or 8 pullets.

    New here, haven't had chickens in many years, but my kids decided to do 4-H, so we picked up 5 Barred Rock pullets, what is supposed to be a BR cockerel, and when I was there they had 1 GLW that caught my eye as well as a SLW. My question is, is he actually a cockerel, or a pullet? It's roughly...
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