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🤣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...

There are two boys and 6 girls The temp is just barely 80 in the nest They all are moving and breathing. I plugged the regular lights...

Barreds are color sexed but, like many, not 100% unless you're really good. 90% works most of the time. We'll be waiting for results...

Well, I just did a thing. Hopefully it'll stop me from giving away pullets, lol. I've got RIR and Barred Rock eggs on the way...

I don't give them away that soon 😁 if at all. My cream legbars are color sexed at hatch 👍 marans not, RIR not....so wait a couple weeks...

I hatched 20 mixed chicks a few months back. I gave 10 to the neighbors, sold 5 and kept 5. Don't know the sex breakdown on the 5 I...

I bought a dz hatching eggs at auction yesterday, $7. RIRxMarans. So I'll set incubator, prob add some of own hens eggs & wonder why...