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  1. lildinkem

    An old Farmer told me this about why I got so many roos this year.....

    I think it has to do with the age of the animal in question. In bumper crop years ALL numbers of everything goes up. MAYBE nature's way to assure that a given species does not wipe out there food sources, a genetic button gets flipped and a certain age of a given animal they put out a higher...
  2. lildinkem

    An old Farmer told me this about why I got so many roos this year.....

    There was a show I seen on NGTV which covered a story of the rats invasion every 50 years in some country in Asia cause of the bamboo flowers. And the journalist checked this folk lore to records that date back to hundreds of years. And it is true, there is a cycle that has rats over populate...
  3. lildinkem

    An old Farmer told me this about why I got so many roos this year.....

    Anything is possilible. I know I am not at all having a ton of cockerels hatching out. I actually want cockerels in some of my varieties of chickens, and am getting way too many pullets. But, I am just starting out in chickens. And my birds ALL are a year old or younger. MAYBE, in the...
  4. lildinkem

    An old Farmer told me this about why I got so many roos this year.....

    Then how come one of our BYCers wrote me saying he hatched out 13 cockerels out of 14 eggs? My west coast friend, that has 400 plus chicks is having near 70% or higher cockerels. That has nuttin to do with prey.
  5. lildinkem

    An old Farmer told me this about why I got so many roos this year.....

    Hey there might be something to this. I have one friend who has alot of Orps, and she has like 70 cockerels outta 100 in one pen, and 65 or so in another pen which has a hundred. I had 2 different people write me here saying the same thing. One guy Jim H said he bought 15 BO's and all but 2...
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