Are they really ALL roosters???

[acbunker]

So sorry that you had to learn the hard way not to believe in old wives tales! The only way to sex little chicks is by colour or feather growth (and this applies to a select number of breeds or hybrids only). Apart from that, they can be vent sexed (only a few experts know how to do that!) So what are you going to do with all these boys?

I'll try to sell or re-home, but I already have 6 purebred Wheaten Ameraucana roos (not EE) that I've been trying to re-home for 2 months and no one has come forward.

If I can't find them homes, they'll be dinner... Oh well... :-(

My meat pen already has the 6 Ameraucana roos, plus 3 crossed beak roos. Now I'll add the 11 roos. The neighbors are probably not too happy right now! Good thing I live out in the country.



Roos anyone? Looking for good homes!!!!

 

[acbunker]

By the way, these are not the only roos I have. I'm so lucky that out of 9 Russian Orloffs I hatched a few months ago, 7 are roos. And out of 4 that I hatched 2 months ago, at least 2 are roos as well.

I'm keeping 2 RO roos, 1 blue splash Wheaten Ameraucana roo, and 1 blue copper marans roo.

So I'm piteously literally all "roostere" out!!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

By the way, these are not the only roos I have. I'm so lucky that out of 9 Russian Orloffs I hatched a few months ago, 7 are roos. And out of 4 that I hatched 2 months ago, at least 2 are roos as well.

I'm keeping 2 RO roos, 1 blue splash Wheaten Ameraucana roo, and 1 blue copper marans roo.

So I'm piteously literally all "roostere" out!!

Isn't it the worst? I bought 13 EE straight-run chicks this spring. Out of 13, I had 10 roosters. And the three pullets were eaten by predators. So out of 13 babies, I ended up with ZERO hens.