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  • i have some very bad news

    Elvira ..... is really elvis

  • #2
    oh dear linda.....what you gonna do with him now?
    The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

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    • #3
      dunno i have a home for 2 cocks though i'm still not certain buttercup is a boy, but i think he probably is

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      • #4
        oh poo!!!!!! Looks like you're going to have to get some "ready-made's" doesn't it? Hatching out chicks is a lovely experience (I think, still not got to that stage yet) but .......................................
        My girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there

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        • #5
          ...... and double
          Never test the depth of the water with both feet

          The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

          Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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          • #6
            yeah, it has kinda put me off hatching any more, unless they are all the same and all for eating except one ........ and definitely don't keep em in the house for 10 weeks lol..........think it will have to be ducks next time, so i can keep the boys
            Last edited by lynda66; 15-02-2009, 10:36 AM.

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            • #7
              This sexing seems very difficult. My mums neighbour bought 2 pol from a breeder. Two weeks later they started crowing! If a breeder can't tell who can? I really hope your boys turn out to be girls after all.

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              • #8
                nope definitely a boy, she was doing strangled goose impressions this morning, i did suspect last week, but the 'crowing' confirms it

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                • #9
                  Poo! and he would have made such a lovely hen too!

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                  • #10
                    yeah i know he looked so girly lol

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                    • #11
                      Sorry to hear that, Are there any statistics about boys and girls? Humans are 50/50 ish I think but chickens are they 60/40 or something? I rescued four chicks in November and the mother - one hen the rest cockerels! My neighbour had a run of five cockerels to one hen!
                      Bad luck
                      Pat
                      "Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."

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                      • #12
                        I don't know about chickens in this respect, but when I kept goats, I got mostly billy kids, until I owned an adult billy (as opposed to the girls going to visit one elsewhere), then I got loads more nanny kids. My theory is that if there aren't enough males to females in the group, nature somehow adjusts by producing more males, whereas if there are lots of males, nature arranges to have more females arrive. I can work out how this would be possible with goats, but a rather different matter with chooks.
                        Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                        • #13
                          dunno, but as it stands i think i have 3 of each ..... though you never know what might happen next lol

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by lynda66 View Post
                            Elvira ..... is really elvis
                            Has he got a quiff? Hopefully he aint got a DA!
                            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                            Diversify & prosper


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                            • #15
                              Oh dear Lynda

                              Strange how they've started crowing at different times though
                              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                              Location....Normandy France

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