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keeping one hen with one cockerel
chickenNutter replied to chickenNutter's topic in Chickens, Eggs and Hatching
I thought as much. It's not my cockerel, just one looking for a home, and my girl is on her lonesome. -
I have a lavender Pekin who is now on her own as her last pal died and I wasn't planning on getting any more bantams as I have moved on to full size chooks,( light Sussex cockerel and 4 girls) who are in an adjacent run and have a different free ranging area. It is not possible to integrate her with the flock, but someone nearby is looking for a home for a young Pekin cockerel. I know a cockerel should really have 2 or 3 girls but I have also heard from more than one person who have 1-1s that work well. Does anyone have any experience with a set up like this?
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Help with Pigeon deterrents - eating hens food
chickenNutter replied to MaxBaz's topic in The Nesting Box
Think yourself lucky it is only pigeons. Our runs are in the paddock and after hubby cleverly created the pophole too large, I found all three ewes and four lambs in there eating the layers pellets one day! Have now put a frame inside the hole that they cant get through but the cooks can! -
Hello Major B, We moved to a small holding a year ago leaving our WIR behind and I also remembered the sticky and couldn't find it, as we also were looking for ideas. Over the last few months we have built two runs in an L shape as we want to breed chickens for meat as well as eggs, and the latest pullets will go out into the second run from the hatching nursery (an extra bit on a garden shed we had designed and made and we built. I will go out and photograph it this afternoon for you. I have to restrain my husband's DIY as he tends to over-engineer things 🙄 Subsequently it has been built with huge timber posts and could withhold a raging bull. One thing I would mention for your roof is that we used bitumen corrugated robin panels which if you don't use enough cross members (we didn't on the longest stretch of roof) it tends to be very flexible and bows allowing rain to collect. Trying to gently push the sagged areas to get rid of the standing water actually distorted the corrugations. We have managed to fit in some more cross members but as it is now distorted hubby is thinking of removing it and putting OSB board and felting instead.
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I think I was here, I had a break for a few years too.
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Things I wish I'd known before my first hens
chickenNutter replied to majorbloodnock's topic in The Nesting Box
I wish I had realised that chickens become a habit. -
Cheers, seen it but just wasn't sure
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I am new to breeding and want to know whether or not my cockerel is firing blanks. Cracked a couple of eggs today, and the white dot seems to be a circle rather than a filled in dot. does that mean they are fertilised?
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Introducing lone bantam to big flock - not good
chickenNutter replied to chickenNutter's topic in Chickens, Eggs and Hatching
Thanks both. -
Mine never used it either. Chucked mine away as was grubby
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Well after advice from chickens people on here and other fora I tried popping my Pekin bantam in with the big flock -Light Sussex cockerel, 2Light Sussex girls, 2 Bluebell girls- late evening. All was quiet. This morning however she was sitting in the hen house at the top of the ladder, with a bleeding comb. ☹️ having been in an eglu I am not sure she knew how to get down or even wanted to join them in the run. Have treated comb with wound powder and put her back in her own run. is all lost or do I try again? She started off wanting to join them, but now tried to get as far from them as possible. They have free ranged together but not really as a flock.
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Anyone used Strangford Incubators company
chickenNutter replied to chickenNutter's topic in Chickens, Eggs and Hatching
Thanks both, yes I looked at Both the Incubator Shop and Brinsea but neither has the one I want and the nearest alternative is out of stock on both sites 😡 -
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