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A note if you choose to process the boys: we butchered our hand-raised, treat-spoiled dual purpose breed cockerels at 12 weeks and the meat was wonderfully flavorful and tender. Not a huge amount of meat at that age, but sooooo good!

Personalities can change between chick, teen, and adult stages. So if you’re looking to keep one watch closely for attitude changes. This year we hatched 20 chickens, 14 of which were cockerels. When trying to decide who to keep, we originally had the friendliest boy-chik marked. But once...