As time went on it became apparent that the new batch of 70+ hens actually contained 11 roosters, which is WAY too many. I purchased these in three batches and with each batch I had the option for a free ‘mystery’ chick. Well, I think that gave us three roosters. It is also apparent now that the Whitting Blue chickens must be hard to sex at birth, because the other 8 rooster were from that breed. We decided it was time to ‘process’ the roosters before we combined the younger and older flocks.

Our first attempt at capturing the roosters failed. I thought we could corral them in the morning when they had left the chicken tractors…big mistake, didn’t catch a single one. They got another days reprieve. Ended up doing it at night when they were roosting in the chicken tractors. Could only capture 9 though, but that was enough. We processed them the next day over by the barn.