First time raising chickens, need help identifying the gender

[Palegan]

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You will not want to keep all those males. Too many males! However, if you had breeding pens, you could keep all males - each with their own set of females. I would not recommend having that many males mixed in together with females - they will fight even if you had a lot of females. But, you could potentially get away with keeping 2 males if you have a large space and 15+ females.

Understood! Thanks. I was thinking getting arround 5-10... I guess I will have to sell some of the males.

 

[Palegan]

That makes since XD. If you want to keep them together, they need about 10 pullets each. If not they can have less each, but 10 seems to be the lucky number.

Ok! Thanks a lot for the info

 

[Palegan]

I have another question, since you are all helping me so much already...

If I buy females from another breed, would I get any trouble or they can reproduce normally?

 

[Acre4Me]

FWIW, we have over 20 females. We have successfully had 2 males in there, and we have unsuccessfully had 2 males in there. Meaning, one set of males figured out some kind of pecking order/truce and didn't fight much, or really at all bc one just stayed out of the others way. That one did father some chicks though, so he was able to mate with some of the hens/pullets, but the vast majority of chicks we hatched were fathered by the head rooster. In the other situation, the two males fought A LOT, part of that was head rooster chasing the other one with the occasional face to face fight and wounded combs. The biggest issue with that scenario was the stress on the rest - some overmating by head rooster (proving he's head rooster) and over mating by the junior rooster who wanted to be top dog. t

 

[Palegan]

vast majority of chicks we hatched were fathered by the head rooster.

hahha interesting. I guess that is nature.

 

[Acre4Me]

I have another question, since you are all helping me so much already...

If I buy females from another breed, would I get any trouble or they can reproduce normally?

All good. A chicken mating with a chicken of any breed is fine. You will end up with mixed breed chickens, but they lay eggs just the same

 

[Palegan]

All good. A chicken mating with a chicken of any breed is fine. You will end up with mixed breed chickens, but they lay eggs just the same

Great. Thanks for the help.

 

[TxChickieFan]

It's just a ratio thing. Too many males with too few females means the males will fight. You can have fewer hens per rooster, but you'd have to keep them in separate pens to keep one rooster from trying to take over.

A rooster bachelor pad is only roosters in a pen with no hens. There's no reason for them to fight then, so they get along better.

 

[Palegan]

It's just a ratio thing. Too many males with too few females means the males will fight. You can have fewer hens per rooster, but you'd have to keep them in separate pens to keep one rooster from trying to take over.

A rooster bachelor pad is only roosters in a pen with no hens. There's no reason for them to fight then, so they get along better.

Oh, understood. Might do this. Thanks for the help.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

I have another question, since you are all helping me so much already...

If I buy females from another breed, would I get any trouble or they can reproduce normally?

All chickens can mate with one another just fine. Some breeds, particularly rosecombed ones, have lower fertility. But all chickens can mate with one another.