Yeah, be careful with this. It's like sourdough starter...
I dithered for quite a while, then bought one several years ago. Hatched some of my own flocks eggs, then some mail order eggs. I had no idea how wildly successful those hatches would be and now Snappy has too many chickens and 5 roosters. All nice, and all pets.
Well, ok, 4 pet roosters and one flockmaster.
I've been keeping chickens 15/16 years and have years of successful broody hatches, but only ever had one nice rooster. One!
I swore them off a long time ago...now I have 5 quiet ones that I just adore.
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...see? Like sourdough starters.