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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    My planned purchase of a RIR rooster fell through at the last minute, so I got this guy and my kids decided on Freddie as a name. I didn’t see it happen but the young ladies appear to have tuned him up a little.
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    Are there any reasons not to butcher laying hens?

    Some people prefer retired hens for old school chicken noodle soup, something about the yellow fat they develop apparently is the secret sauce that makes it great. I'm not a chef but my aunt believes in it and anyone who's eaten at her table won't try to tell her anything about food.
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    Just a little update - my flock is 16 weeks old today, and it turns out my attempts at wing sexing when they were a couple of days old was a complete failure:confused:. I thought I was raising 6 cockerels and 23 pullets but actually ended up with 14 roosters and 15 hens. But yesterday I gave 13...
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    Favorite Hen That Lays Your Fav Color is?

    We hatched these at home from our commercial brown hybrid hens X Wheaten Ameraucana rooster so we'll see. It would be wonderful if they started that early.
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    Favorite Hen That Lays Your Fav Color is?

    Haven't had much variety yet as I'm just getting my feet wet but on the rare occasions that our Orpingtons decide to lay they have the most beautifully shaped, light brown, perfect eggs. Not large, but flawless in shape and complexion. My coop is full of 10 week old EEs so anxiously awaiting...
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    The right gun placement to quickly kill a rooster?

    Have your shooter use a shotgun from 10 yards or so away and aim carefully for the head, that is your greatest margin for error and as close to a guarantee of instant death as you can get. People have the notion from movies that a shotgun sprays a cone of death at very close distances but it’s...
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    It would mean either renovating my coop or boarding him in my parents’ coop but they have a rooster as well and I don’t want to deal with that drama without good reason. I’ll probably wait till August when I can get a breeder from the hatchery, unless I can find one locally before that
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    What is my roo?

    I'm very new at this but I'll say there's a lot of Columbian Rock in him
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    Thank you Ridgerunner, that's very helpful and an interesting read. So this Wyandotte rooster with my BPR hens would make black sex-linked chicks, but probably somewhat less prolific laying potential than if I used a RIR? The thing is my community is quite isolated from major centers where the...
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    I’d like to try and get Black Stars out of my barred rocks by crossing with a RIR rooster, that’s why I’m looking for one. It’s not urgent yet, I can find a rooster in the summer.
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    Golden Comet vs ISA Brown

    When I had 4 of them we got 4 eggs a day for at least a month straight before one finally missed a day. Very nice, large brown eggs. Black Stars are supposed to do about as well and they look prettier IMO so my goal is to hatch out some of those if I can find a Rhode Island Red rooster to cross...
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    Hello! New member :)

    Hello and welcome from a fellow newcomer!
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    The ultimate mixbreed,hybrid,and others thread

    The barred rocks are just that, not crossed with anything, but the rest of these are the offspring of a Wheaten Ameraucana rooster and Red Star hens (aka ISA browns, Golden Comets? I don't know if all of those are interchangeable. Regardless, a commercial brown hybrid). I don't know the actual...
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    Thanks that's what I was looking for.
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    Any problem adding a mature rooster to my flock of 8 wk olds?

    I’m asking about both of the roosters that are centered in the photos, not the barred rocks; this person has both of them available. The comb on the first one has me a little confused. Haven’t seen them in person yet so I don’t know weights and the owner can’t tell me what breeds they are...
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