- Mar 5, 2011
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Thank you BYC - you have helped me raise my first four beautiful chicks to the ripe old age of 1.5 weeks! I am the proud daddy of an Easter Egger, a Welsummer, a Barred Rock and a RIR
They were delivered by USPS from mypetchicken.com, which promises 90% sexing success. Now, while it is probably too soon to tell, the EE is by far the biggest, pushiest, most alpha chick of the batch - maybe just the top of the pecking order, maybe a couple days older than the others, or maybe... a roo? In spite of being the tough guy he also the only one of the lot who still freaks out when you touch him. I will win it over with yet with my yogurt training!
Here's the latest clue: my girlfriend thinks she saw it mount my poor baby Welsummer! Now, at less than two weeks I presume they're a long way from sexual maturity. Maybe it is just a dominance behaviour?
I am really hoping I don't have any roos as in my urban backyard situation I would have to find it a new home. The EE really single-handedly stirs things up in the brooder, too
They were delivered by USPS from mypetchicken.com, which promises 90% sexing success. Now, while it is probably too soon to tell, the EE is by far the biggest, pushiest, most alpha chick of the batch - maybe just the top of the pecking order, maybe a couple days older than the others, or maybe... a roo? In spite of being the tough guy he also the only one of the lot who still freaks out when you touch him. I will win it over with yet with my yogurt training!
Here's the latest clue: my girlfriend thinks she saw it mount my poor baby Welsummer! Now, at less than two weeks I presume they're a long way from sexual maturity. Maybe it is just a dominance behaviour?
I am really hoping I don't have any roos as in my urban backyard situation I would have to find it a new home. The EE really single-handedly stirs things up in the brooder, too