started with chickens again...Rooster problems

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NOTALLROOS

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Jul 12, 2015
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I got my first chickens 1998. My friend hatched some eggs for her daughter's first grade class and she gave me 3 bantam hens Barred Rocks - the following year - 2 more...one yellow ? and a Cochin, both bantams. They laid eggs and all was good. I still have one of the original hens!!! I decided I was not going to get anymore chickens when she dies. THEN someone dumped a rooster. I caught him, built a new coop and run for him...then STUPIDLY I believed a local farmer selling chicks and pullets that she could guarantee that the ones I wanted were hens. I bought 6 because I don't want a lot, but I read that 5 was the minimum number per rooster. One chick died the first day. The other 5 look great, BUT suddenly one of them doubled in size in few days. SO I think I have a second rooster. And since the new ones are not all the same kind or age - I may have more roosters. I can't tell yet. I got 2 Black Autrathorpes, one Buff Orpington, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and I forget what the last one was...I wanted a Golden Laced Wyandotte but I am not sure that is the one that survived or not...it is all black. Pictures of all:


 
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And, welcome to the world of usually, more roosters than hens..when you hatch them at least. I haven't had much of a problem through the yrs. when buying pullets from a store.
I really can't tell by your photos, but I do think that the one on the right is your Australorp. That white will be gone when full grown. Great great layers!

I'm thinking possibly the other dark one on the left side could be silver or gold W. I could actually be backwards on these..! Can't see to well like I said.
 
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