Or you could do like me, where you order both females and males of a breed, knowing the cockerels will go nicely in your freezer about the time the pullets start to lay. I have found by doing this that the nursery NEVER sends me cockerels by mistake, as happens if I order pullets only. Very...
Oh wait, that's just FEMALES! I can also order MALES, wheee! Funny thing about that. When I order some of each, they never make mistakes as to gender! Like often happens when you order straight run. No, like ALWAYS happens when you order SR!!! So I can order ten pullets and, oh, say six or seven...
I can get more in the spring. Six cockerels ready to process. Also eight older hens for the freezer when the pullets start laying. Which will leave me with let's see (hmm, 12 pullets plus three 2-yo's, um, that's 15), yeah a flock of fifteen layers, so I'll need to order ten more come spring...
Yes. Started out with 8 I think. Now have 30 (6 going in freezer though) and want like 12 more which I can't. Shouldn't. Better don't! Gaaaah! :barnie:he