Here's a little run down of our roo situation.
This spring I got some laying hens with a roo from auction. We hatched some of the eggs out, no problems!
That rooster... for some reason my husband hated him. He crowed ALL THE TIME... ( maybe I know why now, he was always celebrating!) The pen in question has a mix match of different things since I wasn't planning on breeding true to incubate right now, I hadn't worried about splitting stuff off into separate pens.
So we sent him off to a new home, in that pen we also have a bantam cochin roo, my husband said he's seen him mount some of the bigger girls, I never have, and rarely see him chase them.
We have a roo that is was a March hatch in that pen in question ( he's probably going to swap in a month, but I've never seen him or heard him crow so I'm still not convinced he's a roo although everyone says he is, lol) and we now have a standard cochin roo.
About five days ago I put eight eggs in the incubator I'm going to give them a few more days but so far... I see nothing. They all look not fertile.
The std. cochin has been here about three weeks, and he has produced at the place I got him from I saw the chicks. If the hen I got with him has laid I can't tell. I have some barred rock girls, one red star, and some RIR girls laying now and I can tell the three kind of eggs apart.
I guess I figured with the roosters in there someone would be doing some work! Do I have too many roosters? Just no good roosters? Lazy roosters?
This spring I got some laying hens with a roo from auction. We hatched some of the eggs out, no problems!
That rooster... for some reason my husband hated him. He crowed ALL THE TIME... ( maybe I know why now, he was always celebrating!) The pen in question has a mix match of different things since I wasn't planning on breeding true to incubate right now, I hadn't worried about splitting stuff off into separate pens.
So we sent him off to a new home, in that pen we also have a bantam cochin roo, my husband said he's seen him mount some of the bigger girls, I never have, and rarely see him chase them.
We have a roo that is was a March hatch in that pen in question ( he's probably going to swap in a month, but I've never seen him or heard him crow so I'm still not convinced he's a roo although everyone says he is, lol) and we now have a standard cochin roo.
About five days ago I put eight eggs in the incubator I'm going to give them a few more days but so far... I see nothing. They all look not fertile.
The std. cochin has been here about three weeks, and he has produced at the place I got him from I saw the chicks. If the hen I got with him has laid I can't tell. I have some barred rock girls, one red star, and some RIR girls laying now and I can tell the three kind of eggs apart.
I guess I figured with the roosters in there someone would be doing some work! Do I have too many roosters? Just no good roosters? Lazy roosters?
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