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Not to be punny, but there was no harm to the fowl.
The various roosters are crowing to each other from their various coops. Lucky is crowing to his girls, which sets Chauncy off, which sets Elvis off, which sets Charlie off. I am in the process of building another coop, which will be the future home of George after the various culls of the straight run that is coming. Right now, for the table egg coop it is Lucky (looks like silver/grey dorking with a hint of EE) a group of EE girls that includes some PBR's and buff orpingtons , along with his submissive rooster and son lovingly called Easter-Dork. They keep the birds fertile in case their are some culls due to the end of egg production by age of the bird. That way a hatch of birds can be incubated for table egg replacements. After that is Chauncy with his submissive roo Jaque and about 5 mature BCM's with another 17 or so BCM pullet hens running around like a school of minnows. I have four Ameraucana (not EE) pullets running around there until they are big enough to join Elvis and the other Ameraucana hen. So far it will be four blue and one black in total. My son, put the black Ameraucana pullet in the BCM coop and called it "muffler" because it grew the standard Ameraucana and told me it was a weird looking BCM. I told him it was not a BCM but an Ameraucana, which brightened his day. He said, "I knew we got four, I just wondered where the fourth one went." So, when they mature and live with Elvis there will probably be back to Blue/Black/Splash for offspring. Next is Charlie, and his 8 Chocolate Orpington girls. The fist hen took 7 months or more to produce her first fertile egg. I am hoping the other girls that are close in age won't take that long. I am going to have to expand the opening to the nesting boxes, because she is too fat to fit. New breed I am eagerly waiting on to come is Coronation Sussex, and whichever rooster that best represents the breed after the culls will be George. Long story short, the various coops are challenging each other, crowing away.
Not to be punny, but there was no harm to the fowl.
The various roosters are crowing to each other from their various coops. Lucky is crowing to his girls, which sets Chauncy off, which sets Elvis off, which sets Charlie off. I am in the process of building another coop, which will be the future home of George after the various culls of the straight run that is coming. Right now, for the table egg coop it is Lucky (looks like silver/grey dorking with a hint of EE) a group of EE girls that includes some PBR's and buff orpingtons , along with his submissive rooster and son lovingly called Easter-Dork. They keep the birds fertile in case their are some culls due to the end of egg production by age of the bird. That way a hatch of birds can be incubated for table egg replacements. After that is Chauncy with his submissive roo Jaque and about 5 mature BCM's with another 17 or so BCM pullet hens running around like a school of minnows. I have four Ameraucana (not EE) pullets running around there until they are big enough to join Elvis and the other Ameraucana hen. So far it will be four blue and one black in total. My son, put the black Ameraucana pullet in the BCM coop and called it "muffler" because it grew the standard Ameraucana and told me it was a weird looking BCM. I told him it was not a BCM but an Ameraucana, which brightened his day. He said, "I knew we got four, I just wondered where the fourth one went." So, when they mature and live with Elvis there will probably be back to Blue/Black/Splash for offspring. Next is Charlie, and his 8 Chocolate Orpington girls. The fist hen took 7 months or more to produce her first fertile egg. I am hoping the other girls that are close in age won't take that long. I am going to have to expand the opening to the nesting boxes, because she is too fat to fit. New breed I am eagerly waiting on to come is Coronation Sussex, and whichever rooster that best represents the breed after the culls will be George. Long story short, the various coops are challenging each other, crowing away.
