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I'm just hoping to get live chicks out of my hatch. I don't care if rooster or pullet. My pure bred BBR girls weigh about a pound each maybe slightly more. Such darling little girls. I call them Princess Faith and Princess Hope. My lightest BBR crossed with God knows what cockerel is probably around 3 pounds. They are such good natured boys though. I can pick any one of them up and they will lay on their side in one of my hands without fighting. As long as I talk to them they will stay there. I've only had one that liked to peck and we stopped that bad boy behavior really fast.

Not bad odds for almost 26 or 27 cockerels.
 
microchick said:
I'm just hoping to get live chicks out of my hatch. I don't care if rooster or pullet. My pure bred BBR girls weigh about a pound each maybe slightly more. Such darling little girls. I call them Princess Faith and Princess Hope. My lightest BBR crossed with God knows what cockerel is probably around 3 pounds. They are such good natured boys though. I can pick any one of them up and they will lay on their side in one of my hands without fighting. As long as I talk to them they will stay there. I've only had one that liked to peck and we stopped that bad boy behavior really fast.

Not bad odds for almost 26 or 27 cockerels.
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You have that many boys?
 
Yeah, easily. And that is just the bantams. 5 standard roosters. Possibly 26 bantams...really need to count them again...

Good grief that is 31 roosters:th

The majority are in bachelor pens right now except the ones I have in with the bantam hens. The bachelor bantams are in with the standard hens right now and that will change in a day or two when I get another pen built.

I lost so many males to Marek's that I've been holding on to the boys expecting them to drop like flies and so far they haven't.:confused: DH asked me what I was going to do with all of them and the plan is to let the bachelors free range and let them earn their feed that way. I'll have to guard them due to our fox problem but an afternoon sitting in the shade with my .22 at my side whilet he boys scratch around, not a bad way to spend the day.

Finally caved and made a doctor's appointment. My fingers are getting worse.:hit
 
CapricornFarm said:
No wonder, the way things are handled when shipped? Have you ever seen videos? Stuff goes on conveyor belts and falls like 5 feet into bins!
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I believe (DW is at work, can't check) USPS expects things to be packaged to survive a 6' drop.

@Beer can, our JH egg drop test was won with an egg suspended in a piece of nylon stocking tied into a box with enough room for the egg to move without hitting the sides. Basically a big shock absorber. Don't know if that would help keep them from scrambling.
 
microchick said:
Yeah, easily. And that is just the bantams. 5 standard roosters. Possibly 26 bantams...really need to count them again...

Good grief that is 31 roosters:th

The majority are in bachelor pens right now except the ones I have in with the bantam hens. The bachelor bantams are in with the standard hens right now and that will change in a day or two when I get another pen built.

I lost so many males to Marek's that I've been holding on to the boys expecting them to drop like flies and so far they haven't.:confused: DH asked me what I was going to do with all of them and the plan is to let the bachelors free range and let them earn their feed that way. I'll have to guard them due to our fox problem but an afternoon sitting in the shade with my .22 at my side whilet he boys scratch around, not a bad way to spend the day.

Finally caved and made a doctor's appointment. My fingers are getting worse.:hit
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Sorry Micro. My knees are getting worse since i can't find the ibuprofen. Considering getting a steroid shot. Hope your doctor can help you.
 

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