Re: some thing diffrant

a_l_p wrote:
Peggy wrote:
Hi All,
As I hatch my own Poultry I get a surplus of young roosters.
My friend told her mum. (who wanted new blood line ) That I had chooks and she (her mum)took my young roosters. She wanted to know what i wanted for them and I told her that I just wanted to get rid of them.
Cutting a long story short .I am chaseing a milking goat and when her nanny has a kid she is giving me a nanny for the roosters &will take as many as I want to give her..She was also worried that I would not want her to kill them .I kept telling her I don't care as long as I did not have to feed them.
keep well all
Peggy

Blasted roosters! It turns out that I'm right about the roosters when they are wee chickies but I don't trust myself so I let them grow up, then I've got fond of them if they're pretty or have nice natures, and then.........

Oh dear, if only there were a way to desex them like male kittens AND stop the crowing developing, so they could be nice domestic pets.

Not sure if my lovely gentle, and gentlemanly most of the time, frizzle rooster is firing blanks or if it has been a bad season for chicks. A neighbour whose chooks truly free-range said most years a hen will turn up every now and then trailing 8-10 chicks but this year it's been 3's and 4's. Someone suggested hedgehogs, but why this year? Anyway that doesn't explain mine who were indoors. One produced 5. one had none but she's young and I think she took too much time over her tea-breaks. The latest, Big Red who was 120% focused on the task, had 3! One fertilized but stopped development v early, one probably (guessing) in the last week, and 4 duds. Rooster had been having a quietish spell but I've noticed him attempting to ambush the unwary. They're getting very nimble though, out in the big adventure playground. I don't think he's having a lot of success, not like when they just had the house and the enclosed deep litter run. Do I have a flock of Uber-Feminist chooks on my hands now, I wonder? "Get lost Noddy, biology isn't destiny you know!"

A L P

Hi,
I found that the weather has a lot to do with he hatch rate.
When it is to hot/ cold or wet my chicks don't hatch very well.
Ofcause snakes , crows,large lizzards neibours dog ect. Can eat the eggs or frighten the hen and the eggs get to cold .
Peggy
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