9-week-old pullet started crowing...

[Buzzy]

When a raccoon got my roo the dominant hen started crowing; when I got another rooster she stopped.

 

[basicliving]

My dominant rooster, Duke, resigned a few weeks ago - and the beta stepped up. Duke is still around, just no longer in charge - his favorite girl (alpha hen) started crowing when he stepped down - and I have a total of 4 roosters!! (Two are still cockerels, but they crow).

 

[sarafrog]

Well, it ended up being a cockerel (99% sure) and I re-homed him with someone who has about 40 hens and only 1 rooster so he will be happy to help service all of those hens. I wonder eggs from white-egg-layers bred with a Maran will look like?

At any rate, out of 4 straight run chicks, I ended up with only 1 pullet...she's a gorgeous blue Jersey, though.

I now have 2 Ameracauna chicks, about 4 weeks old, from a sexed batch at my local feed store to make up for the 3 cockerels I had to get rid of. No more straight run chicks for me!

 

[saddina]

Half of my "sexed" chicks were roos.