I just discovered that two of my five 3 month old chickens are roosters so I need to make some choices..
I could:
A) get two new baby chicks and raise them tell they are old enough to join the remaining 3. Does anyone know how long I would need to raise the new chicks before I could introduce...
Wow, thanks for all the feedback. At least now I know. I will find them a good home. The question is where can I get 3 month old female replacements? My "flock" will be cut in half. Btw - love the sight. I am raising chickens in San Diego and I am loving it outside of this issue.
I have been raising 5 chicks with my 7 and 5 year old daughters for close to 3 months now and prior to that built a very fun chicken coop, but now that my chickens are older I am concerned that two of the 5 might be roosters. They are both bigger and look different then their sisters. All are...
Thank you.. took me a minute to realize that you have to upload the pictures to an album before you can post them or at least that is what i had to do. In any case, what do you think. Male or female?
I am the brand new owner of 5 chickens of which I am concerned two of them are males. The feed store found that to be very suprising as they felt the probability of having a male was about 10%. In any case I have attached a picture of each chicken (they are both about 3 months old) and would...