- Feb 28, 2012
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Ok so my family got our first chickens 4 years ago. We got 5 New Hampshire Red pullets. One day my mom brought my sister & I to a livestock oction (never doing again & don't do it your self). We got 2 sets of 12 chicks (24 chicks in all). So now when we got home we had 5 pullets & 24 mixed chicks, so thats 29 chickens. 2 pullets & 2 chicks were killed my my dog & 2 died of natural causes, so we ended up with 22 chickens. S we started relizing a lot of them were roosters & they started to fight, now we were very new with chickens & didn't now how to tell what was a girl & what was a boy unless that crowed so we asumed most of them were roosters. So obveously we couln't keep all of them. So we got this guy Matt to come over & take all of the roosters to his friends farm who lets all of his roosters free range. So Matt come over & inspects them & he turns to my Mom & me & says, "You only have 2 hens the rest of them are roosters.". We were shocked!!!!!! So at the oction we bought 2 dozen roosters!!!! The 2 hens we had were 2 of the 3 New Hampshire Reds! (the other red was a rooster). So in all we had 20 roosters & 2 hens before us, so Matt took 18 of the roosters away & left us with the red, a pretty EE & the 2 hens. We are NEVER going to a livestock oction EVER again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This could only happen to us I'm telling you! You just can't make this stuff up!