There are definitely exceptions to the rule. I had a hen brood 9 eggs last summer, she hatched 9 out of 9 and they all turned out to be pullets. However, I hatch an average of 300 eggs a year and it evens out to about 50/50.
300 eggs?!
Wow! Do you sell chicks?
Very seldom. We as a family process 100-125 for our own use, we sell quite a bit to close friends as meat birds and sell some at auctions. It's a heritage breed and most of them are between 2-4 months of age when we process them. They are nowhere as big as a broiler.
I have some Roos that love to crow, but I have a hen that it quite loud when she wants to be. She's a sweet older hen, I really don't know what she is, or even how old she is, as she was a rescue. I call her my "Buff Brahma" because that's what she resembles. I named her Chanel. She is so old she doesn't lay eggs but she acts broody, so I let her hatch out someone else's eggs and she was a wonderful mama! For the most part, Chanel is a quiet girl, however, when she wants to go and sit in a particular nest box, and someone else is in there, she will stand there and do this loud whining squawk, like I've never heard any other chicken do. She is loud as well as persistent, and she won't stop until she gets the nest Box that she wants to go in. Never mind that there's an empty box right next door...No she gets right in the "trespassing hens" faces & whines. She makes the 1 or 2 hens in that particular nest Box exit and go use another empty Box so she can go into the one that she prefers. She's not very high in the pecking order but everyone seems to respect her, because of her age maybe, I don't know. She is a big fluffy girl, I just love scooping her up for hugs. She cracks me up. Here's some pics. In 1 she just finished whining at a Buff Orpington & EE hen to vacate "her" box.
(Notice the empty box next door)
I got curious too...looked it up.
yes i think some one should make a thread for thatI got curious too...looked it up.
Scientists generally use "platypuses" or simply "platypus". Colloquially, the term "platypi" is also used for the plural, although this is a form of pseudo-Latin; going by the word's Greek roots the plural would be "platypodes".
Wow that's a subject for a whole another thread
Goose & geese
Mouse & mice
Millennium & millennia
Life & lives
Beef & beeves
Biceps & bicepses
Octopus & octopi
Amoeba & amoebae
nether, WY have chickens if you dont eat the eggs and also meat is so good, i dont eat my chickens be cos i have pekin bantams, so if i did eat them i would have to be the last thing on earth that is edible
but i dont want to start any arguments so, eat what you want to eat 
