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We have a couple of those fake eggs from the feed store in our nesting box. The girls just started laying, but I'm hoping that they'll have bad experiences trying to peck the plastic ones. I read about that somewhere... and if it's on the internet, it must be true....

Those both look rather rooster-ish to me. I also have a barred rock rooster whose picture was on this forum a few months ago. He's a boy, alright... crowing like mad and schtupping the girls every chance he gets. I do agree that the males tend to be lighter. Al Jolson looks just like your...

Well, he was all black when we got him. The boyfriend and I were mulling over possibilities and I asked, "Who was that guy that used to do blackface and sing Mammee?" "Al Jolson?" And it stuck. We also have two RIR named Olive and Little Jerry Seinfeld and two ameraucanas named Mary-Kate and...

This is our barred rock, Al Jolson. I'm watch Al's growth and thinking we may have a roo on our hands. What do you think? S/he is about six or seven weeks old. By the way, I must say how impressed I am with the site. I've been reading posts for quite a while and y'all have helped us with...

We're in Tucson... far Northwest side near Catalina. Thanks to everyone for the posts about keeping the ladies cool when it gets up to 150!! We have five eight week-old chickens. A barred rock, two Rhode Island reds and two Ameraucanas (?).

I've been reading all of your posts and I love how everyone is so helpful. We have five eight week-old chickens and we're insanely overprotective. We're in Arizona and it was over 100 degrees this weekend and we actually put a swamp cooler blowing into the coop for them. Nuts, eh? Anyway...