Pullets?

[HappyClucker7]

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Looks like an RIR cockerel. The others are RIRs too, but they are pullets.
The BR in the first pick is also a cockerel.

 

[Kewlbrz1]

Looks like an RIR cockerel. The others are RIRs too, but they are pullets.
The BR in the first pick is also a cockerel.

 

[Kewlbrz1]

So is it problematic with 2 roosters? I guess Hazel is going to have to be Harry now.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Yes. You have one male Production Red, and two females. They aren’t RSLs since there’s a red boy.
And a pair (one male, one female) of BRs.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

So is it problematic with 2 roosters? I guess Hazel is going to have to be Harry now.

Yes. If you want to keep even one, you need closer to 10 hens. Both, it’s like 18 hens.
Otherwise they will kill the girls with their crazed breeding and kill each other fighting over them.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

But three girls can live happily.

 

[Kewlbrz1]

But three girls can live happily.

Wow, this is crazy. Thank you for all the wonderful advice and opinions. You are all the best! So when do Roosters start getting the breeding bug?

 

[BGcoop]

A little it is up to the bird when they start acting like boys. I had a VERY aggressive boy start mounting at about ten weeks but that is not the norm. I’m pretty sure he had ALL the testosterone in his hatch. (He only lived about 14 weeks due to this. Not that the testosterone directly killed him, but his behavior towards the other birds was unacceptable). And I have had other boys really show no interest in mounting before they were butchered at about 6 months.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Wow, this is crazy. Thank you for all the wonderful advice and opinions. You are all the best! So when do Roosters start getting the breeding bug?

It depends. But around the time they start crowing? A few weeks after?

 

[Kewlbrz1]

A little it is up to the bird when they start acting like boys. I had a VERY aggressive boy start mounting at about ten weeks but that is not the norm. I’m pretty sure he had ALL the testosterone in his hatch. (He only lived about 14 weeks due to this. Not that the testosterone directly killed him, but his behavior towards the other birds was unacceptable). And I have had other boys really show no interest in mounting before they were butchered at about 6 months.

I am not sure what to do. Of course when I bought these chicks I had plans of 5 pullets and a future of farm fresh eggs. Now I have 2 future Roos and only 3 hens. Lol