Rooster Separation Issue

[donrae]

Well, I have to say my first thought was to tell your husband your rooster's sterile and the eggs aren't fertile, he'll never know the difference............I'm so bad

Sorry.

I think your idea is great. Plus, you could change what hens are with him if you need to, say someone gets to be too much of a "favorite" and looks ragged. You have 9 hens, so I wouldn't keep more than 2 separated from him at a time, leaving 7 for him to spread the love. I think those 2 hens would be fine not being with the rest of the flock.

I agree, carry a sharpie and put your honey's initials or "Dad" or whatever on it. Or, if you have hens that lay different colored eggs, you could separate that way. Looking at your sig line, you have two green egg layers? Those could be your honey's eggs, easy peasy, no marking!

 

[Bullitt]

Yes Bullitt, I am pretty sure he is a RSL... why? When I bought them from the feed store I bought 7 RSL and 7 'Rainbow Layers'. I'm almost positive I ended up with 1 EE, 1 Ameraucana, and 12 RSLs. My daughter and son-in-law begged off 4 of the RSLs though, so now I only have the 7 RSL hens & Angelo plus the EE & Ameraucana. (FYI: Angelo turned out to be the only rooster out of all 14 birds...)

I was just curious if your rooster was a red Sex Link. It looked like one.

Just to clarify, an Easter Egger is a name given to chickens that do not meet a breed standard and lay blue or green colored eggs. If you bought your chickens at a feed store, that means they got their eggs from a hatchery, and hatchery Ameraucanas almost never meet the standard for the breed. So that would make it an Easter Egger also.

 

[farmgirl06]

Thank you again Bullit .. I agree about Bear. She laid her first egg today and it was a pinkish brown. No Ameraucana for me! She is a beautiful black bird with irredescent green feathers and black legs. I self-diagnosed her breed by pics on the Internet... lucky I'm not a brain surgeon, huh? I'm pretty positive that Angelo (rooster) came from the red sexlink cage. I guess their breed is irrelevant to me now because I don't intend to breed them for customers and I like their eggs just fine (no matter what hubby says!) Lol! But, it would still be nice to know for conversations sake. Moppet hasn't laid an egg yet so don't know her coloring, but both she and Bear and five of the RSLs came from the rainbow layers cage...