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Cockerel

no name for a young roo? i mean besides possible future soup...

Last night I took away the heat lamp but the chicks had the heating pad. They did great over night with the coop door closed and 14 hens...

@frustratedearthmother don't you have an incubator going with RIR & BR eggs? Maybe hatching soon? Yeah, I saw your post for a buy. 😉

I didn't incubate any last yr. Couple broodies gave me a few. This yr I decided to re energize from home, given usual prices of chicks...

FB will be starting another batch soon. Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

🤣A pullet is an immature hen. These eggs are all layer types, some pure marans, some Rhode Island reds, some cream legbars...and a few...

"What kind of chicken is that?" "Pullet." "Pull what?" ... that is the extent of my chick-n knowledge...

Started today 👍. 6/2 hatch. Layer pullets, freezer roos.

They calm their butt down after a few seconds of being upside down. Then see what they do with their feet. Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

I'll have to remember the flipping the chick over trick... I don't regret giving away the pullets to the neighbors. The chicks were...

https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/wife-needs-to-stop-sending-me-to-town.16811/#post-470058 Jesus is Lord and Christ ✝️

They really are. I've had a lot of involved roosters, too. Mass of silkies co-parenting and one will hide the chicks while the others...

Set some eggs!! Shell mother her own, not those you bought. Sometimes if they're setting a nest, you can slip a couple just hatched...

This one wants to hatch eggs but wants nothing to do with the chicks. I pulled her out of the nesting box she slept in over night and...