Chicken owners face a dilemma when hens turn out to be roosters
By Karin Brulliard, The Washington Post
Published: June 22, 2018, 6:03am
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Megan Barrett started having suspicions about the yellow chick when it was 3 weeks old.
While the others she’d purchased for her first flock of egg-laying hens were docile, this one was inquisitive and bold, and soon it developed a gorgeous, swooshing tail. Barrett’s three kids loved the bird, but she had a feeling local officials and maybe neighbors would not.
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