did i accidentally buy roosters??

[mooneychicks]

 

[mooneychicks]

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Sometimes, hens mate with hens. It's a dominance thing. I think shes a girl.
I bet you, you have heaps of room for 4 chickens, but if you really don't want roosters then your best bet is to sell him off or give him away.

 

[mooneychicks]

I don't think I have a problem having one rooster. I do have a lot of room for 4 chickens. I'm afraid that I have 2 hens and 2 roosters. I would like to have 3 hens and 1 rooster but I just don't know about that brown one. Right now, I have gotten one brown egg every other day and one white egg every other which makes me think that i only have 2 hens. I dont know if that could have anything to do with anything or not. Does that make sense?

 

[missnu01]

They are definitely roosters both of them

 

[Mehjr10]

Oor do you mean eating the rooster will be good?

Yea sorry not to be clear, the Roo's will eat well. And if you can process them and eat what you have raised or in this case ended up with.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Can you just give me one full body close up shot of the brown chicken?

 

[fuzziecreatures]

Check the feathers just before the tail. If they are pointy, rooster. The pics are not in focus and I can't quite tell

 

[TexasLady]

The chances are very good that any bird biting the neck of another bird is a rooster. Hens don't often do that.

I understand that you can't keep roosters because they crow. If you love your rooster so much you hate to get rid of him, you can take him to a vet who can fix him so he can't crow. I'm not sure of how to do that, but someone said they couldn't get rid of their rooster, and they did have his crow "fixed." I think she said it cost her $100 but it was worth it to her.

However, if you can find a place that sells farm supplies, some of them will take excess roosters to sell to other people who need or want a rooster for fertile eggs. Some people believe that fertile eggs are better for you though I'm not sure if that is true or not. Sometimes there are also auction sites that sell animals that have bird sales once every week or once a month. You can take the roosters there and sell them. For me, the drive is about an hour, and it costs me $20 in gas, so I have to take several to make enough to get my $$$ back. I prefer not to kill my roosters myself, so it is less painful to me to sell them.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I'm not convinced either of them is a rooster. The brown one is definitely a red sexlink hen and she's probably laying nice big, brown eggs for you. The black one looks like a laying hen to me as well, though I suppose it could be a henny-feathered rooster. Do you know the black one's age? That would help to know for sure.

Some breeds are generally more aggressive than others. My sexlinks are all toward the top of the pecking order in my flock, and I do sometimes see my hens getting into fights, which involve grabbing one another wherever they can and kicking. Did you recently introduce them to each other or any other hens? That would explain a lot of aggressiveness as they all try to figure out the pecking order.