Just My Luck!
By Kareng
@kareng (80243)
United States
May 9, 2021 7:18pm CST
Remember the baby chicks that I hatched out last month? Well, they are not babies anymore. I have moved them outdoors to the grow-out cage.
As for the title, it is looking like four of the six chicks are going to be roosters! Yes, that is how my luck goes!
I will try to re-home them. I may keep one of them if it gets along with one of the other two Roosters. I will do this just because both of these rooster are from my original clutch and they are getting up there in age. But if that doesn't work, we will be having some chicken dinners in a few weeks.
Does anyone else have this kind of rotten luck? This is the second clutch I've raised that turned out to be more than half roosters!
Photo Credit: © 2021 Karen Gros, All rights reserved
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
10 May 21
4 of 6 roosters is a very impressive rate. I would buy a lotto ticket! that is serious luck!!!!
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
13 May 21
@DocAndersen I know. My last lottery ticket also went along with my bad luck. . LOL. I love the brown eggs too! I only have one white egg layer. It's funny to see that one white egg among the brown and greenish/blueish eggs.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
12 May 21
@kareng sorry I was teasing! i get the whole hen vs rooster thing. my parents had chickens for many years (my mom is a brown fresh egg fan)!!!!!
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
10 May 21
They grew that much in a month??? I just showed my kids as they wanted chicks (we used to see them at the local pet/feed shop) . . . they do not stay little fluffy chicks forever 
. Oh gosh, well I hope you can rehome them . . . I can't imagine "eating" chicks I saw grow up 
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. Oh gosh, well I hope you can rehome them . . . I can't imagine "eating" chicks I saw grow up .2 people like this
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 May 21
My grandma had this happen before and we ended up having chicken&noodles for dinner that week:)
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 May 21
@kareng Grandma needed to rid herself of a few roosters.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
11 May 21
@kobesbuddy That is the cycle of life.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
10 May 21
I'm sorry you ended up with so many roosters. Chicken dinners sound good...I guess. I'd have a problem eating chickens that I named. I'm still waiting for us to have some good luck; so I understand perfectly. Have a good week.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
12 May 21
@kareng The one that attacked you sounds like chicken dinner! Nah, I think our luck is going to change!
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
13 May 21
@LindaOHio Yep! I will try to wait until the other rooster I keep matures though.
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@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
10 May 21
LOL. Chicken dinners. 
You are just raising them to slaughter them afterward.
Sorry, I don't raise roosters.
I just enjoy them at dinner.
You are just raising them to slaughter them afterward.
Sorry, I don't raise roosters.
I just enjoy them at dinner. 2 people like this
@popciclecold (40214)
• United States
10 May 21
I vaccinated baby chicks for years, never did learn the difference.
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@wolfgirl569 (135791)
• Marion, Ohio
10 May 21
I often do too. And if I buy straight run chicks wanting a rooster I am often lucky to get one. I only have 2 in those I bought this time and that was why I bought marans this year. The babies I hatched are still hard to tell with being silkie crosses. I am hoping for mostly hens in those, soooooooo
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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17 May 21
Wow! Boys Rule the roost 
If they could just figure out how to lay some eggs? 
If they could just figure out how to lay some eggs? 1 person likes this
@kareng (80243)
• United States
11 May 21
Well these guys are going to end up on the dinner table in a few months more than likely. I mentioned running another batch of eggs through the incubator and hubby said and then we can't take a trip. So I guess he has plans to go somewhere. Yay!
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