You are not in anyway sounding annoying. You sound like someone who wants to learn. If you don't want chicks you just never put them under a hen or in an incubator. Doesn't matter if you refrigerate or not. I don't refrigerate my eggs but I know some people do. No you will not be killing any...
If you don't want chicks you don't incubate them, whether in an incubator or having a broody mom sit on them. You can pick up eggs daily....and if your eggs are all being fertilized by a rooster...you can put them in your house (don't refrigerate, though I've heard some have). When you have a...
Wait a minute....wait a minute!! I found a Delaware rooster that looks EXACTLY like my rooster. Finally a picture of a rooster with a solid color tail! Woohoo!!! Delaware it is, lol. Thanks again for all your help and helping me attain more knowledge. I have learned a new breed, Austra...
Well after looking at both breeds, the Austra seems to have a white tail and the Delaware seems to have a "morse code" (sorry, I don't know the term for it but it's how i think it looks) tail. Mine is a solid color tail. So now I'm wondering if its a mutt......:confused::barnie
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! None of my friends have any and I've never even heard of Austra white. Finally a name to go with the rooster, lol. Now to go look at picks and see what hens look like. :hugs
You won't need to separate from hens to not have chicks. As long as you pick up eggs daily and don't let a broody hen sit on them....you won't have chicks. You can always eat eggs of hens whether there are roosters or not. You just will have chicks if the eggs hae been fertilized by a rooster...
Amber whites and Amber stars were my first real chickens. (The first ones I ever had were Cornish X....TSC told me they were Rock Cornish hens). There is a difference but I couldn't tell you anything that I knew except that the Amber stars had the softest feathers I have ever felt on a...
Oh.My.Lands.....I WISH I had your problem!! My ratio is 90% roos and 10% hens. Out of the last two batches of 7 chicks (each time)...6 were cockerels. Ugh...