Those little floofs grow up fast, don't they? You're looking in on your crew, and that's when you see it. It seemed to appear overnight... It can't be! But it is. The dreaded pink comb. You've got a cockerel!
With hatcheries typically offering around 90% accuracy with vent sexing, and with how...
Hello! So we have 4 roosters, and not enough hens. So as much as it kills me, we're going to have to get rid of 2. They're both good roosters, one is a black Silkie, and is about 24 weeks old, and the other is about a year and a half, and is a Silver Duckwing OEGB. (Both are bantams).
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Hi all!
I’m new to chicken keeping and live in an urban area (East Bay, CA)
I love my little “pepper’ but we can’t keep roosters. He’s 5 months old all black silkie, snuggly and loves his ladies.
Please contact me if you’d like to bring him to your flock and make some silkie chicks or just...
I bought a few birds from a poultry store (they were hatchery bred) and unfortunately got a boy in a batch of girls and my local laws do not allow roosters. He is supposed to be a speckled sussex but I believe they gave us the wrong breed (my guess is Welsummer). He isn't mean, if anything he's...
I ordered ten 'female' Barred Rock chicks, lost two in transit. Of the 8 remaining, 6 are roosters. I had no idea I had anything to be concerned about until I called the hatchery today. The lady asked me if I was going to slaughter the roosters. Now I am trying to figure out what to do. I easily...