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<blockquote data-quote="BuckFuller" data-source="post: 3061669" data-attributes="member: 29436"><p>We ordered 15 chicks (minimum order) from Cluck Hatchery in Lebanon, Missouri via the internet back on May 5th. The chicks that we ordered hatched on 06/28 and were shipped that same day. We had to go to the post office to pick them up the following day. They were very healthy, good looking chicks. We ordered 3 each of 5 different kinds of chickens. We got 3 Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, 3 Black Laced Red Wyandottes, 3 (ordered 3 but actually got 4) Barred Plymouth Rocks, 3 Buff Orpingtons and 3 French Black (**COPPER**) Marans. We purchased "sexed" chickens to have laying hens but sexing chickens is only 90% accurate so we had a 1.5% chance of having a rooster (cockerel). We suspect that is why we got one more chick than we ordered. Sure enough, one of the Black Laced Red Wyandottes is a rooster. We were told that they would start laying around 5 months of age and 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day after they hatched we got our first egg. We have gotten dozens since and boy are they good eggs! We found our second double yoke egg yesterday. My wife can in with a couple of regular size eggs and one quit a bit bigger. She told me, "Either Roudy the rooster left us an egg or one of the girls is showing off". We suspected it was a double yolk since the only other egg we have gotten that big was a double yolk. Sure enough it was. Picture below.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]110785[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]110786[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BuckFuller, post: 3061669, member: 29436"] We ordered 15 chicks (minimum order) from Cluck Hatchery in Lebanon, Missouri via the internet back on May 5th. The chicks that we ordered hatched on 06/28 and were shipped that same day. We had to go to the post office to pick them up the following day. They were very healthy, good looking chicks. We ordered 3 each of 5 different kinds of chickens. We got 3 Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, 3 Black Laced Red Wyandottes, 3 (ordered 3 but actually got 4) Barred Plymouth Rocks, 3 Buff Orpingtons and 3 French Black (**COPPER**) Marans. We purchased "sexed" chickens to have laying hens but sexing chickens is only 90% accurate so we had a 1.5% chance of having a rooster (cockerel). We suspect that is why we got one more chick than we ordered. Sure enough, one of the Black Laced Red Wyandottes is a rooster. We were told that they would start laying around 5 months of age and 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day after they hatched we got our first egg. We have gotten dozens since and boy are they good eggs! We found our second double yoke egg yesterday. My wife can in with a couple of regular size eggs and one quit a bit bigger. She told me, "Either Roudy the rooster left us an egg or one of the girls is showing off". We suspected it was a double yolk since the only other egg we have gotten that big was a double yolk. Sure enough it was. Picture below. [ATTACH=full]110785[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]110786[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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