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year of the cockerels

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Russ:
i was just looking over my grow pens and noticed the cockerels way out number the pullets. Ahhh it just seemed strange to me that all the varities except my LF Silvers would end up like this. At first i thought it was just my LF BBS....wrong bbs bantam, silver, lavender. Has anyone else noticed this, I started to think maybe the temp of my incubators had something to do with it but the LF Silvers are about 50-50 ratio compared to everyone elses 80-20 ratio. Maybe it was just the year of the cockerels for me? Guess I better fire up the incubator for just 1 more hatch........all prayers welcomed, not for the hatch but my marriage  ;D

DeWayne Edgin:
Same here Russ but i hatched enough to make up for all of the roosters. However i got all blue wheaten cocks and not a single blue wheaten hen!! Then i lost my blue wheaten rooster after i got rid of all my chicks but one! Now im going to use my splash wheaten to help me out. I don`t want to turn the incubator back on yet but i may have to. I have been married 12 years today and i hope next year i can say 13 years. O well time will tell.  :)

Max:
I feel your pain... I'd swear every time I take inventory another cockerel pops up. I just penned 10 of the older cockerels to bring some peace to the barnbard. Looks like about 20 more coming along right behind them.   ???

greeneggsandham:
I have quite a few also.  About 70%.  If it wasn't for my one blue wheaten pullet, it would be much, much worse than that.  She gave me only one male, all the others were female.  :)  Good girl.  She likely got tired of being penned with my wheaten and blue wheaten all the time all by her lonesome and decided to fix my problem for me.

 My BBS are most all male.  Might even have to add one or two more to that down the line.  Darn small male peacombs make it hard to tell.   ;D

DeWayne Edgin:
Funny you brought up small pea combs. I raised some Lavenders to be almost full grown, thinking they were hens! Well they wasn`t! All of my other Ameraucanas are easy to tell after a few months but my Lavenders combs grow in alot slower. I even sold some thinking they were males to a guy that lives 6 miles from me and they grew up to be hens.  :o

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