I have a blue wheaten cockerel, and I noticed that he has lost or didn\'t have a beard & muffs!
I thought at first that the pullets might have picked them off, but after 2 months without them, he is still bare. I do have a wheaten cockerel hatchmate of his, but I wanted to use just the blue wheaten on my 5 blue wheaten girls.
So, should I just cull him, use him and cull chicks without beards & muffs, or use the Wheaten cockerel, who is correct, but not as nice elsewhere....
My first instinct was cull him, and use the Wheaten boy, but I read here about using a roo with a problem, and culling his chicks.
2 of the girls are hatchmates of both boys, so I\'m concerned of continuing the missing beard, etc.
Sterling