Thanks everyone for your thoughts! This is my first time raising chickens. He was always lighter in color than the rest of the rocks and I was so excited at the time how different " she" was and wondered why "she" was so much prettier than the rest.. it didn't even dawn on me that it could be a rooster because I was told that they were all sexed and were all girls. The chicks I was told were all vaccinated too for Mereks but that too was not so. I have Mereks in my flock and have lost several birds to that. It has been a very rough start to my chicken raising. Despite educating myself and investing in all of the state of the art chicken fencing, shed, cleaning protocol I am still learning a lot! Thank goodness for this great website!
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