It’s been awhile since I have updated you on our baby chick that hatched in September. At last report, we were affectionately referring to it as an ugly duckling. It’s an odd mix of a black and white with a few spots of brown. Fast forward a couple of months and you can see that baby chick has grown!
Unfortunately baby chick is a rooster. We were so hoping that we would have another hen. Having two roosters creates all sorts of problems. The roosters are a lot more aggressive when there is another male around. Our older rooster has started going after me when I enter to chicken coop to collect eggs. This is scary! It really hurts to get pecked.
I sat out in the yard watching the chickens this weekend. It is interesting to watch the pecking order (yes, that’s were that rem comes from!). The baby rooster is at the bottom of the pecking order. The hens put him in his spot. He has to strategically feed as the hens do not let him be apart of their group. Of course the older rooster is in charge.
We now have to decide which rooster to keep. It’s a tough call since the older rooster is a pure bred and the younger rooster we watched grow up. The only reason we are keeping one rooster is we want to try to hatch chicks this spring- thus we need fertile eggs.
Who to keep, that is the question?!
Make sure you checkout my other posts on raising chickens.
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