Anyone separate their roos from their hens?

[Marlinchaser]

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SEMEN (its an adult word in an adult conversation, c'mon) can be stored sometimes for 10 days or more. For optimum fertility, once a week would be best.

Have you ever considered saddles to protect their backs, that way you dont have to seperate anyone?

Adult word, in a G forum surprized it didnt get changed on ya.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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I would say days, its like a kid in a candy store not sure what flavor to get next, and often just grabbing the first one that doesnt fight or run away. So I would say all flavors are not being sampled in first day to safely say they will be fertile

 

[onthespot]

If I was going to do that. I would shoot for at least two days a week, or even every three days, and leave him in all day long to make his rounds completely. How many hens we talkin' here?

 

[kinnip]

It varies based on breed. There are a couple of very specific breedings I want, as in one roo-- one hen. I'm guessing when it's one on one I won't have to keep them together as long.

 

[onthespot]

I kept a roo in an adjoining pen to a hen i wanted him to breed, and every morning I would just open the door, he would breed her and I would coax him back to his pen. Once he got the routine down he was very easy about the whole deal. I wouldn't put him back until I witnessed him breeding her successfully. She was a whole lot happier with that arrangement, for sure!

 

[I'vegotchickenfever]

We let them all "roost" together at night and let the roos out of the coop in the morning. They still have their moments, but, our girls still have feathers because they spend most of the day apart.

 

[Promiselandfarm]

10 days is what most books on the subject state is the fertility thing. I do understand the G rate stuff but how many children on this board go to public school? How many have sex education classes? Even my 9 year old who is a homeschooler knows about animal reproduction...we live on a farm and have animals that reproduce? So what part of fertility can and can not be talked about? Just wondering?

 

[onthespot]

my reading says that a hen may be fertile for up to a couple of weeks, but after three days the fertility starts to drop steadily, and after ten days your chances are slim, and after a couple weeks they are nearly nil, but that some people on here have sworn their hens have been fertile as much as a month afterwards. I would be TICKED if someone sold me "fertile hatching eggs" from a hen that had not seen a roo in two weeks, however, just as an example. I would want her to be seeing him no less than every three days.

 

[zatsdeb]

I have noticed that our roosters are all different, some will circle a hen, and when she lays down he will do his thing, and be gentle about it, we have had others who are very rough and not gentlemanly at all! They go bye bye.
our barred rock rooster rocky is a gentleman. so is my salmon favorelle. the EE rooster was not.