bumblebird
In the Brooder
- Mar 23, 2015
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Our mid-March pullets have recently begun laying in the last 6 weeks. We have 5 birds, and one looks more like a cockerel than the others (below), but we've been getting 5 fully formed eggs 3 out of 7 days this week. Last week or two we have gotten 3 eggs with paper thin shells, but now we're getting good solid eggs every day before 3 pm.
They are 3 Buffs and 2 (probably?) White Rocks. But one of the white ones is the bird in question. "He" is amicable, he squats when we go to touch him, and hasn't made any sounds hinting toward being a roo.
We picked them up from a local farm store who gets their chicks from a hatchery, and the 2 kinds they were grabbed from were Rocks and Buffs, but could it be that one of them is a hen of another variety?
Is any of this normal? We had been getting 3 to 4 eggs, now we're getting 4 to 5 eggs. Or should we change his name to Kaitlyn?
They are 3 Buffs and 2 (probably?) White Rocks. But one of the white ones is the bird in question. "He" is amicable, he squats when we go to touch him, and hasn't made any sounds hinting toward being a roo.
We picked them up from a local farm store who gets their chicks from a hatchery, and the 2 kinds they were grabbed from were Rocks and Buffs, but could it be that one of them is a hen of another variety?
Is any of this normal? We had been getting 3 to 4 eggs, now we're getting 4 to 5 eggs. Or should we change his name to Kaitlyn?