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Only hennie cock I ever had got culled for shooting blanks

Apparently the extra estrogen that affects the hen feathering gene can also cause fertility issues.

The grey and brown cocks that I posted earlier are both fertile. Don't know about the dark one yet.

lmljsl said:

Are these some of your free range?  Do they roost inside the fence or outside in the trees?

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yeah they roost up in the trees outside the wire. I've done ok keeping the chicken eaters from getting them so far but obviously I'm not always home.

sdm111 said:

Had a lil trimming get together today 5 of mine and 2 additional

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I need to do the same. What did you use specifically? And How? Those stags look sharp!

My hawk battle today. Before heading out to check on things early this morning I let a bunch of young birds out. Assumed Coopers coming in multiple times a day would not be an issue because of all the adult chickens out at well including a stag that really had an interest in hawks. Came home a few hours later to find adult females Cooper's eating the smallest stag in the bunch of young ones let out. Coopers had the uh oh look when it saw me and I could not get my camera fast enough so I gave chase. It was able to fly up maybe waste high holding carcass remains. It went straight along path dog took towards bamboo batch in back ground. It got through patch then found down hill opening and took that to escape. Gut pile was left intact.
















Fun part was the old, overweight carcass with busted ribs could not keep up. Man it hurt trying chase dang bird. All young birds penned back up. This not same hawk that comes in most of the time. Means I got at least three hunting me, juvenile male and female, and this adult female.

@centrarchid??

Texicano said:

@centrarchid??

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Yeesss.

Texicano said:

I need to do the same. What did you use specifically? And How? Those stags look sharp!

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A friend does mine he is much better than I am.

Ears, wattles, comb is straight up the back, tight across bill nose to where the skull starts, then from back to bill/skull intersection tight across head then round off by back of the head and dunk the head in a bucket of cold water to stop bleeding and look over and fine trim as needed. He's real particular.
He uses these scissors which were mine and work very well. Going on 3yrs of cutting. Sharp/blunt Straight



Peacomb obviously omit the straight up the back part lol

centrarchid said:

Yeesss.

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what exactly were those pictures of?