Could you not have given a separate pen with some of his own girls.
Fancy, with your breeding do you just have coops and runs for all of your different breeds or do you just separate desired roosters and hens into cages when you want to collect their eggs?
Also what seasons/ months do you breed and hatch eggs?
Luke I don't keep any xbreeds anymore. I have 4 large pens attached to the back of the hayshed. We designed the doors to open at each end and 2 facing the river. This way each pen can free range during the day. King George and his 7 girls have their own area around coro cottage and the silkies are in the garden.
I try to get all of my orders for eggs finished before mid December . There is no point in posting eggs to the mainland in the summer months, they could sit in an Aus post truck for days. I have my last lot of eggs under 3 Wyandotte hens ATM. Unfortunately by the time they reach point of lay we will be heading into the colder months, but that doesn't affect Wyandotte as much as other breeds. I was posting Wyandotte and silkie eggs in August. If you are wanting to sell pol hens you are best to get your eggs into the bator in August. That way by the time they are 6 weeks old it's getting warm enough for them to be outside. I have lots of people contact me for pol hens as Xmas gifts.
This is coronation cottage, which overlooks my ' grow out ' pen.
My breeding pens are 5 m deep and 2.3 m wide.