We started out with our first chickens last May.. Buff Orpingtons .. with a BEAUTIFUL rooster my DH name Booger! (he is my avatar) Well as bad luck would have it.. Booger got sick and died the day after Christmas. We replaced him with a nice Rooster from Nancy Garry and have since had a chicken sold to us as a pullet decide he is a roo after all.. making two grown roosters on guard duty. At the time of Booger's death, I had just begun to put eggs in the incubator so I put some of his sired eggs in and through first one mishap and a hawk attack.. I have three of his "chickchildren" that are 18 weeks old. Closer inspection this week has led us to believe that TWO of the three are ROOSTERS!! Lucky for them that chicken math has gone wild here.. so there will be plenty of hens to go around.. but darn!! DH says we wished too hard for a Booger Jr. while we were grieving -- we will be careful what we wish for in the future..but do you think it will work if we concentrate and chant PULLET, PULLET, PULLET over each new egg we put in the incubator?
Shelly
Shelly
