The dog/fox/hawk/raccoon/thylacine/velociraptor/chupacabra
will always kill the prettiest/rarest/most valuable/youngest HEN
while ignoring a whole pen full of useless roosters!
I want to breed some hybrid meat birds.
Would it be better to use a Barred Rock rooster over Indian Game hens or vice versa?
(I think you call Indian Game Cornish over there)
Cheers M
I am setting 6 Barred Rock, 6 Light Sussex, 6 Bantam White Leghorn, and 7 "surprise" eggs - all from a breeder friend of mine.
If anyone wants to join me here.
M
Here is an interesting incident I just filmed.
My old White Leghorn-ish rooster is a perfect gentleman, very calm
and gentle, but he cannot abide the peacock coming into his run!
He is the only rooster I have ever seen who can consistently beat my 20 year old peacock in a fight.
(even the...
Overall cost a few dollars for some screws- the rest made from junk around my shed.
Length- 1130, Width- 620, Height- 570. Height from floor- 1330.
Mesh top for ventilation. Commercial dimmer for heat control. Plastic viewing window.
My local school told me they had an incubator they didnt need any more- I said I'd take it but it wasnt quite what I expected.
As far as I can work out it is an old Laboro laboratory incubator - used for incubating biological specimens.
As it has an extremely accurate temp control I wonder if it...
G'day. I am from Gippsland, Australia. I have been breeding chooks for 45 odd years. Have also bred ducks, guinea fowl, quail, peacocks and pheasants in the past. These days I just have the one peacock, 2 ducks, 1 guinea and some Isa-browns and auracanas. Plus 25 boer goats. michael