It's been about 5 or 6 weeks now and I just found out that NONE of them are the breed I wanted.
Oh wait it gets better.
There are only three females, and 5 males... plus I bought the white male rooster so that's 6 males.
Roosters are like typical steroid gym guys at a bar - they'll fight over the chicks and try to show who's more powerful. That also means that I won't be getting many eggs - chickens lay (on average) 2 eggs every three days. So in a week I'd get about 7 eggs with my current batch. I had been planning on getting about 18ish every week so that I could share with friends.
This all came about because I'd decided to name them and I took pictures to help keep them separated, and then after some research with the pictures I found out the truth about my bunch...
So I'm looking for new homes for 5 of the guys and when the fair comes to town in 2 weeks I can buy some new females since I saw them selling last year.
Here are the men:
The rooster that we are keeping - he already crows |
Both of these are boys |
And here are the girls:
The girl is the one in the back |
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