bantams

[BirchHatchery]

i think im gonna go with older birds how many hens per rooster how fast will they repopulate? if they are gonna breed like bunnies i may only need 10 hens and 2 roos of diffrent blood. how long after i get them home should i leave them penned up before they free range?

 

[sjarvis00]

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Each rooster can easily take very good care of 8 hens. Some lines do not tend to go broody others do. This would be a good question for the breeder you get your birds from. If you get a broody line they can brood up to 15 eggs at a time, the broody hen will not begin laying until th echicks the old enough to care for themselves and can raise 3 broods a year.
OE bantams make great yard ornanments, and bug and weed elimination and will need very little attention if left free ranging. So if you have a broody line and say 10 hens hatch 30 a year each raise 20 a year each the numbers get up there quickly.

 

[phasianidae]

They definitely don't have any problem reproducing, the broody in the pic I posted was barely over 20 weeks old.

 

[BirchHatchery]

very interesting i think i will go will go with 2 roos and around ten hens then i have another one if somethin happens. i think i will sell whatever the hens rear on their own n keep a few minnestota chicken breeder you got yours from welp and those go broody so is it more chances that oegb will be broody than not

 

[phasianidae]

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I have only had them since last spring so by the time most of them were laying it was already cold enough to discourage all but one from going broody, I guess we'll see this spring. But it would all depend on the strain.