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Poco, if you are looking for cockerels as City says, I have a couple of extras. One was hatched July 31 and the other looks like he is almost a year old. Big fella but a little too aggressive for my place. I can send one or both of them to POOPS with somebody if you are interested.
Buster52,
I prefer the least aggressive cockerel. Send me a PM with your price and we'll arrange things. I can handle cranky boy birds, but I'd rather have one that doesn't black my shins every time I go into the pen to feed and water.
Well, to be clear, he is only mean to other roosters, not humans. He has never ever come close to being any kind of aggressive toward a human.
But other roos, he is pretty rough on. Even when they aren't eying the hens, he goes after them. It took him about 3 days to establish himself as top roo of the place, and normally they settle in and relax once that is established. Doesn't hurt them, but is always chasing them and that makes everyone nervous, including the hens.
Right now he is in a pasture pen with 5 DC hens and everyone is much more settled around the place. Most of my birds free range during the day most days, which is why he isn't a good fit.
Monty I my hatcher is already made that way. I guess I didn't make myself very clear. The problem is when I've put them in the brooder and they get all mixed up, starting to get some feathers and change in their looks I don't know what's what on some of them. Like right now I have about 50 or chicks that are about 3 weeks old. I know there are some that I really wanted to keep but I don't know which ones cause they've changed so much....I know I'm a birdbrain. I thought if I could color code them then I would know for sure what they are.
