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Bookmark or Share- Pros and Cons of Keeping a Cockerel - BackYard ChickensLearn the advantages and disadvantages of having a cockerel in your backyard flock. Find out how they can fertilize eggs, keep hens in line, make sweet noises, and more, but also how they can be aggressive, noisy, and mount hens too often.
- Silkie - is it a cockerel or a pullet? - BackYard ChickensFor 22 weeks I have thought this Silkie was a pullet. I don't see any obvious streamers on the crest, or major waddles so I that it was a pullet. That was until this morning when it was prancing (as if to mount) next to other pullets and tid-bitting like a rooster. It has never shown these behaviors before or other cockerel behaviors.
- Is my chicken a pullet/hen or a cockerel/cock?? - BackYard Chickenswhen a chick is sex linked this means that you should be able to tell the gender once the chick has hatched and dried off by the coloration and/or markings on the chick. with red sex links the cockerels will be lighter than the pullets. also with cockerels they may have the same markings as a pullet but they will still be lighter in coloration ...
- What To Do With Unwanted Cockerels - BackYard ChickensYour sweet little cockerel will surprise you with his aggressiveness if you throw a new pullet in the coop. Establishing pecking order with pullets isn’t pretty either, but it’s a heck of a lot more gentle than when a rooster is involved. BackYard Chickens has plenty of advice on introducing a new chicken to your flock.
- Pullet or Cockerel? Understanding Sexual Dimorphism Will Help You ...Learn how to identify the sex of chicks and young chickens based on their appearance, size, comb, feathers and behaviour. Sexual dimorphism is the differences in appearance between males and females of the same species, such as colour, shape, size and structure.
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