I hatched my own eggs, set Super Bowl Sunday (GO PACKERS) after losing my whole flock of 20 to something...under suspicious circumstances but only my Roo, Big Daddy survived. Under the worst of circumstances, I grabbed eggs out of the coop and the fridge and to my surprise, I hatched 14 of 22!
Here I am 4 months later, still trying to figure out the sex of a few of them. The chickens I'm having trouble with are from the Easter Egger breed and these can be hard to sex due to a small comb (the thing on top of their heads) and wattles (those things that hang down below their beak). So I decide I won't have enough girls to give me eggs (we sell them and our customers are missing their fresh eggs) so I grab 9 "girls" from the feed store. They only identify them as "brown egg laying chickens"...now that should relate to "girls" right? Since only the girls lay eggs....well, not if you're on a roll with roo's!
Three of these "girls" go to our grandkids (my son picked a chick from the straight run and has the same luck as his mom and got a roo. I brooded two for his family and one for my daughter's family. She wanted to add an Australorp to her 4..vocal girls). One, I'm sure is a cockerel because he has a very large and red comb that popped up at 3 weeks...now, I have another suspect.......and my husband wonders why I spend so much time just sitting and watching the chickens.....and drinking so much wine!
Here's a pictures of the two new buggers....so out of 9 pullets (after giving 3 to the grandkids), I'll be lucky to get 4.....to add to my maybe 5-6 from my own hatch....the continuing saga of Yes or Roo?
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