The pullets are just 4 months old today. I have noticed a couple of the 5 are finally starting to have their combs grow a little and turning a bit pink. I have read that when they suddenly group and turn red they should start laying eggs. They walk around his coop and he looks at them but they really don't pay him much attention. I am thinking of letting them all out to graze and see what he does. i am pretty sure he is so nosey he wil start dancing for them. This is my first time raising chickens. I have a grown rooster and he has 4 hens. He is a rhodbar mix and is a good rooster but does mate with them quite often. I then have these I have been talking about and then 6 smaller ones, 3 I hatched and 3 I purchased. Out of those I have 4 hens and 2 rooster....i think. They are about 8 or 9 weeks old. I am trying to get a flock that lay different colored eggs. So the older ones I have one EE and she only laid 4 eggs since last October, I am thinking she may be older than they sold her to me as. She sits in the nest daily but never leave an egg. Of the 6 pullets I have purchased and will go will Willie I have, 2 EE, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Partridge Rock and 1 Pearl leghorn. The youngest ones are Partridge Wyandotte, and 3 suppose to be black marans, one is a white maran and of course the 2 roosters, 1 is Black French Coppoer Maran and the other is a blue laced red wyandotte. I cant tell if the BLRW is a roo but pretty sure he is as is comb is turning red and he has little red wattles. I wanted all hens but tend to keep hatching roosters or either by the chicks that turn out to be roos. Anyway I am enjoying it and hoping to get them all grown and laying eggs in the near future. Thanks for all the info, I appreciate it.
