Chicken101-07
Songster
- Aug 18, 2019
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I'm curious but how many female and male chicks did you hatched this spring and summer?I'm considering myself unlucky,I let 2 hens go broody in spring with 19 eggs,3 were not fertilized,lost 2 chicks to snakes and 1 was hatched sick,died a couple of hours later,1 somehow suffocated under the hen,another 1 died from unknown reasons,I was left with 11 chicks,surprisingly enough 9 were Male and 2 were female,I gave 1 female and 1 male to the guy that gave me his rooster in return for 2 females,at the moment I did not know what one was and it turned out it was a male,I gave a really close friend of mine,a male since he did not have one,3 males became dinner,I let another hen go broody in the summer with 10 eggs,3 unfertilized,7 hatched,I sold off 3,kept 4,one was killed by my chickens when he went loose in the coop,I have 3 and they are all Male again,even the 3 I sold off were all male too since I know the person that I sold them too,now I'm stuck with 4 cockerels at the moment,and a pullet which I'll be keeping,and the 3 younger ones,so I was curious how many you got that turned out to be hens.I was thinking of keeping 3 of the most good looking cockerels and sell off the other ones since they look pretty good too since I can't keep them all or wont kill them because they are old now and also look amazing.I would be making 3 smaller coops and buying 2 hens for each cockerel and rotating the cockerels every few months between each coop to see what breeds of chickens genetics make or either keeping the cockerels in cages and rotating the cockerels every few months in the main coop to stop inbreeding a lot,by keeping the cockerels I save the time and stress of looking for a rooster every few months.good or bad idea?.sorry for the long text but thanks and hope you have good day.