Newish chicken momma

[Grammy60]

Hello and welcome to BYC So happy you have joined our flock.

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC! We're happy to have you with us!

 

[N F C]

It's nice to have you here with us!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[TheMic434]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Only 3 or of 16 were cockerels?! Those are amazing odds in your favor.

Nope. Only 3 of the 16 were hens! So disappointing. Except, now I get to hatch more eggs. lol

 

[Boppo]

Glad to meet you. I am tickled by your tidbit about "chicken camp" for dog trainers. There are several others here who use click training with their chickens. Once you are settled here, you might consider writing a good article about click training and training in general. There are only a few articles I see about training and none about click training, though I have seen it discussed among members. Here are some hints about writing a great article on this site (some is tongue in cheek, but it's good advice). Welcome to the community and best wishes with those birds!

 

[Boppo]

Oooh, did you figure out how to get rid of all those extra roosters? People have suggested posting ads on:
1. your local Craigslist;
2. your local Facebook poultry interest group, if there is one;
3. our BackYard chicken list for your state or area, here.
4. After you have put up a certain number of posts here, you can also put up an ad in the Buy, Sale or Trade section here.

In all cases, I suggest including the best glamor shot you can get of the rooster in question, and all the information you have about breed, where you got the bird (parentage, bloodlines, where you got the eggs), and temperament, to help those boys get better homes rather than the soup pot.

 

[Happy hen lover]

Hi, I got my chickens in 2020, the coop I bought from a neighbor came with 5 older Golden Comets who have all passed. We have 3 Barred Rocks, 3 Azurs, 2 White Laced Whyendots who are about 2 years old. And this spring we hatched 16 chickens in hopes of getting an Ameraucana rooster. It turned out that the Ameraucannas were Eater Eggers. There were a bunch of other breeds in the 16 eggs that hatched, all but 3 of the chicks that hatched were roosters! We got 1 Welsummer hen, and 2 mixes with a polish mother and the rooster was half Cochen and half Dorking. Now I have to decide which rooster to keep and keep looking for a well bread blue egg layer.

I'm interested in breeding for egg color and I'm a dog trainer and I can train chickens if anyone wants to learn. I use a clicker to mark the behavior I want. It turns out that dog trainers go to "chicken camp" to practice their techniques for better dog training.

I can't believe you only got 3 pullets! Welcome here I got my first flock 2 years ago too. I've learned lots from this group. How cool you got birds with your coop!.