These Three - Any Chance for a Pullet?

[lightchick]

I'd keep all your EEs until your 100% sure. Well....until you hear a crow.

 

[10whiskers]

I'd keep all your EEs until your 100% sure. Well....until you hear a crow.

Thanks so much for the encouragement. Yes, until I hear a crow. The "flock" is rowdy enough as it is, but it's probably because of over-crowding. They are making more adult-like sounds and when that happens, their heads pop-up as if to say: "What was that!?"

I never imagined I'd become so entertained by them.

 

[Basskids08]

That 1st pic of the black ones are all pullets

 

[10whiskers]

Lady I got hm from couldn't have roosters in her subdivision, and he was so loud that they couldn't even fake like he was a hen. He took a few weeks to warm up to our place, but he crows all the time. My yard might be fifty by fifty feet, and I live 'in the hood'... with three roos who like to have crow-offs. The bantam is hilarious and sounds like a determinedly creaky door; the Rhode Island sounds more like a low, manly coughing fit, but it's the EE who shouts everyone down. I'll hazard a guess that 90% of my fertile eggs come from him.

If that is so, I believe the neighbors roo across the street must be a happy guy. Before him, I thought rooster's only crowed at danger and dawn. He crows throughout the day - about every ten minutes.

Fifty by fifty wouldn't mean you'd be "in the hood", here. Some of the grandest, historic, houses in town have about as few feet surrounding their foundations. Most of those homes have three stories and in front, the narrow streets (still lay with the old brick pavers) leave little room for a yard. There's not much of a side yard before one can reach out and touch the next historic house. I wonder where they kept their chickens back then? I'll bet they didn't need much property to keep chickens, because it really doesn't take much property to keep chickens. That's why I don't understand some of the 3 or 4 chicken limit, that some towns have.

My proposed property taxes just increased and it's not even for something I have access to. I have well water, an electric bill that would be most people's average mortgage payment, and trash pick-up is only once a week. I'll just consider it my Chicken keeping fee. =-)

 

[10whiskers]

That 1st pic of the black ones are all pullets

I really hope I'm as confident as you in a few weeks. It would be fantastic! The other breed I'm keeping with three pullets are black. These EE's are gray-black. I'm glad I picked a really shady spot in the back yard for the coop and run. Good for black birds.

The only thing that bother's me are the trees. They are old, tall, oak trees. We had some nice stout oak trees back in the 90's, but hurricane's Frances and three weeks later, Jeanne, went though here and took down a lot of those oaks (along with part of our heavy wood fence and gate.) And while we are far enough inland not to have gotten the full brunt of those storms, our power was out for a week for each storm. We have a well. No electricity. No water.

I'm holding my breath through September and October. It seems to me those hurricane's came through here about ten years ago...
Oh yeah. I'm not surprised, that I'm having trouble having a disproportionate number of cockerels. For Hurricane Jeanne, we decided to ride out the storm in a Motel room and bypass all the disaster's related to storms. When the Motel roof came off, our truck was the only one to get smashed to heck and back. It's not that I'm a pessimist, but I haven't won the lottery, either.

 

[Wyandottes7]

That 1st pic of the black ones are all pullets

I agree!

 

[BantamLover21]

They look like pullets to me.