Lesco Brandon
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- Dec 12, 2023
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I'm planning for clan mating / clan breeding. I've done research into it but still have some unanswered questions. I thought maybe I could bring them here and see if some of us can benefit by sharing thoughts and experiences.
In a nutshell clan breeding is "at least three breeding pens of the same breed and a clan is a flock of related females that always stay in the same pen for breeding. Male and female chicks take the clan of their mother, cockerels are used only once in each pen never to return and after year two they are culled or sold."
My questions:
In a nutshell clan breeding is "at least three breeding pens of the same breed and a clan is a flock of related females that always stay in the same pen for breeding. Male and female chicks take the clan of their mother, cockerels are used only once in each pen never to return and after year two they are culled or sold."
My questions:
- When you start the clans from scratch do you get chicks from the same place and divide them into three clans or do you have to get unrelated chicks from three different places or three different breeding lines?
- After a breeding is complete and that you have chicks from three clans. If you wanted to integrate them all together, do you take those three cockerels and put them in a separate coop until next breeding season while keeping all the hens from all the clans to live as a flock until the next breeding of do you keep all the males with all the hens?
- Let's say after the third year of breeding and selection I find a cockerel in clan two that is better than the existing clan 2 cockerel and I decide to replace him with the younger one. Should I do the same with the other clans cockerels or can they remain in their respective positions?