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  1. CindyinSD

    Convince my family this is a cockerel!

    I'm a bit concerned for the ladies here... Brahmas are a very large breed. I had 2 breeding roos and around 25 hens plus several mamas brooding eggs/chicks, also another 5 cockerels not quite ready to start crowing. My poor hens looked (and still look) like someone plucked their backs and the...
  2. CindyinSD

    Convince my family this is a cockerel!

    What breed is your pullet?
  3. CindyinSD

    Convince my family this is a cockerel!

    Well then the jury's gonna be out for a couple more weeks. 😂 As R2 said (and I learned this from him), rose-comb breeds can have trouble with fertility, so ever so often, hatcheries will mix in a single-comb bird. The single comb is recessive, therefore while it can pop up now and then, it's...
  4. CindyinSD

    Convince my family this is a cockerel!

    At this stage you can't know it's male or female unless you know how to vent sex. The hatcheries are pretty good at sexing them. Tractor Supply is famous for miss-sexing chicks (or mixing them up in the bins). Unless you got them there, I'd lean toward the sex being accurate. They do...
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