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[DobieLover]

Today someone contacted my husband about 3 roosters that someone dumoed at their house and asked if we wanted to take them. I couldn't say no, because the roosters wouldn't last otherwise.

The 2 yellow/orange ones are BO I believe, but the brown one I am unsure.

Once again, victim to chicken math!View attachment 3868481

Your pullets are now going to be the victims of your chicken math.
If you keep that many males with that many females, the girls are going to be over bred very badly. If I were you, I would try to rehome most if not all of those boys except for the best one for the flock.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Your pullets are now going to be the victims of your chicken math.
If you keep that many males with that many females, the girls are going to be over bred very badly. If I were you, I would try to rehome most if not all of those boys except for the best one for the flock.

I am not planning on keeping them with the flock. I only am keeping 3 for my current 21 hens/pullets. The sons of my current chickens are meat birds. And these 3 will hopefully be rehomed.

I plan on keeping my main rooster, a Buckeye, and the 2 BO roosters I am currently raising. (Not the 2 I am going to help catch.)

My intentions are to rehome them, or keep the 2 BO roosters I am going to catch for my future BO breeding project. Either way, they will not be with my girls. It would be a bachelor flock until I have their breeding pen made.

 

[DobieLover]

BO breeding project.

Those boys are hatchery stock. Are you just looking to sell a purebred bird even if it's not of SOP quality?
This is more what a good quality buff Orpington rooster would look like.

They roosters and the hens have decidedly round shape.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Those boys are hatchery stock. Are you just looking to sell a purebred bird even if it's not of SOP quality?
This is more what a good quality buff Orpington rooster would look like.
View attachment 3868530
They roosters and the hens have decidedly round shape.

Can I breed a bird with SOP from hatchery quality with selective breeding? I have no experience with the pure breeding, so tips on how to find some SOP BOs would be appreciated! I want to have the best quality chickens to sell.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Sad news on the 3 roosters. The person messaged my husband and said that one of the roosters were ran over. I don't know which one though.

The good news is that one of them is captured and the other one is almost caught.

 

[Sally PB]

Yesterday I was in the garden, sweating and dripping. I had the hose in my hand, and dang it, my hat fell off and my head ended up in the pathway of the water and ... well. It felt great.

 

[Sally PB]

I know a woman who didn't know her boyfriend's last name until he wrote it on the marriage license. Then she laughed, because it was Cherry.

 

[DobieLover]

I was listening to a radio morning show earlier in the week. I don't know how they got on the topic, but they were talking about couples comparing how many partners they'd had.
Some guy claimed to have had over 200 where his girlfriend said she'd had about 12.
So that got me to thinking, "how many have I had?" I thought about it and the number was 6. Then I realized that the actual number was 7... I had forgotten to add my ex-husband to the list!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have had 5 in my life boyfriends DH is my last till we die!

 

[Sally PB]

The stars aligned on September 1, 1987, when I met my first boyfriend. I married him in May of 1989. One is enough for me.