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Will roos try to mate with roos if confined together????

Thanks to everyone. We have taken your advice and suggestions and come up with a plan. We were going to start today by keeping the hens in their enclosure but my dad who doesn't know our routine or plan decided he would let the hens out this morning before we got up. He knows now. It works...

The ones we think are RIR have green tail feathers. The white ones we think are the jerseys but some of them have brown feathers. ??????

Are there other benefits to sexlinked chick other than easier to sex? Does anyone know the breed a the yellow birds I have? Most of them are all just pale yellow but a couple have dark brown feathers on their wings and a few just have a random here or there colored feather. Thanks for every...

Thanks so much. We are going to start to confine the hens as they are 24 weeks and because they free range I do notice that sometimes they seem to disappear. That will give us some time to process our roosters. Sounds like if we built separate pens for the roosters and keep the hens separate...

The roosters are Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Jersey Giants. But we don't think they're pure bred. Some of the Jerseys have brown feathers on their wings and they're yellowish, not bright white. The only reason we were wanting 3 is because we wanted one of each breed...

We have 4 free ranging hens that are now 24 weeks. We also have 24 free ranging roosters that we are raising for meat, they are 13 weeks. They are ready to butcher at 15 to 18 weeks and we will be doing that in small batches. We do confine the birds at night because of foxes, the roosters...

I should also mention we are in west central Florida.

We are just getting started on our little farm we want. We started with meat birds after seeing some of the horrible treatments that our store bought chickens go through. We started with 10. The person we got them from said they would go lazy and not go 3 feet for water by 49 days old. We...