I had the SAME problem! My hen hatched 7 eggs in April, and I'm only now figuring out that 5 of the 7 are roosters! It was very ambiguous until they started trying to crow!
This is very disappointing because NOW I have to find homes for 5 roosters!
Any suggestions?
So.... I went to gather the eggs today and received the oddest gift! I can identify the egg on the left as one that I typically get from my American game hens & the one in the middle as from my Silky hen.... But the one on the right has me confused! I do have several pullets that were hatched...
These were the eggs a few weeks ago!
This is today... Baby #7 poking a beak through to say hello! Egg #8 has no cracks yet.
And this is one of the other 6 who are a couple of days old! O;-)
*edit* My son also just pointed out to me that it also has 5 toes... Also just like...
You were SO right!!..... I went to check after reading your post last night & she had 7 eggs under her.... This morning, I went to check again, and--sure enough--there were 8 eggs! I marked them all as you suggested. I think 8 chicks would be the most either the chicken or *I* could handle...
My hens all started laying over the last month. As of about a week ago, I was getting 4 eggs/day out of my 5 hens.... However, one of my hens decided to go broody about 3 days ago. And now all of the other hens seem to have just stopped laying! Even though we have 2 brooding boxes, all of the...