Can hens mate other hens??

[K.Riggs]

Lol hey, gotta feed your family. extra roos is a good thing when it comes to that! gotta love you tube...!!!

Totally! I don't like killing things but i do like a challenge and i also like providing food to my kids soo.. The first time i raised sheep for food i got over any squeamish feelings pretty well. If you eat it, you should be ok with the fact it has to get dead lol

 

[21hens-incharge]

To answer the original question. Yes.

It is not so much a mating as a dominance thing.

 

[FrankHomestead]

Totally! I don't like killing things but i do like a challenge and i also like providing food to my kids soo.. The first time i raised sheep for food i got over any squeamish feelings pretty well. If you eat it, you should be ok with the fact it has to get dead lol

I thought I'd never be able to slaughter my own animals, and to this day I still haven't. I only have 6 layers right now but plan on getting a few more breeds and expanding my flock for both meat and eggs, as well as ducks, turkey, hogs, cow and lamb.
the more I read about raising your own meat, the more it became a realistic survival thing rather than an emotional thing. I strive to be self sufficient in everything else, so why not?
I'd love to hear about your experience with sheep! I just recently decided I want to raise those too and started my research on that.

 

[K.Riggs]

I thought I'd never be able to slaughter my own animals, and to this day I still haven't. I only have 6 layers right now but plan on getting a few more breeds and expanding my flock for both meat and eggs, as well as ducks, turkey, hogs, cow and lamb.
the more I read about raising your own meat, the more it became a realistic survival thing rather than an emotional thing. I strive to be self sufficient in everything else, so why not?
I'd love to hear about your experience with sheep! I just recently decided I want to raise those too and started my research on that.

I am on the same page as you it sounds. I'm thinking of raising a piglet next season and plan to get a ram in March to go over my three ewes. I purchased pregnant and they lambed here. Sent off on the stock trailer at 8 months. Absolutely beautiful lamb, the best i have eaten. I only have 1.5 acres but it is very fertile with good grass. My husbands family own the local butchers here so i'm lucky to have all the connections for the processing side. I'd love to get more involved next time and even cure the lambskins so nothing is wasted. I invested in a quality incubator today and hope to do a few hatches a year of meat birds that i keep seperate and process as soon as they are full size. I don't have room for a cow, but many people around me run them so that isn't hard to sort out. I have a breeding pair of geese and might even think about goose for the table at least for xmas each year. I will report back after i do the deed tomorrow! It will be a start

 

[FrankHomestead]

I am on the same page as you it sounds. I'm thinking of raising a piglet next season and plan to get a ram in March to go over my three ewes. I purchased pregnant and they lambed here. Sent off on the stock trailer at 8 months. Absolutely beautiful lamb, the best i have eaten. I only have 1.5 acres but it is very fertile with good grass. My husbands family own the local butchers here so i'm lucky to have all the connections for the processing side. I'd love to get more involved next time and even cure the lambskins so nothing is wasted. I invested in a quality incubator today and hope to do a few hatches a year of meat birds that i keep seperate and process as soon as they are full size. I don't have room for a cow, but many people around me run them so that isn't hard to sort out. I have a breeding pair of geese and might even think about goose for the table at least for xmas each year. I will report back after i do the deed tomorrow! It will be a start

Good luck! Just remain calm and soothing like some of those awesome you tubers do...I've heard a stressed out bird is a bad tasting bird!

 

[K.Riggs]

Good luck! Just remain calm and soothing like some of those awesome you tubers do...I've heard a stressed out bird is a bad tasting bird!

Thanks! I seem to have good luck so far with keeping my animals calm. I have had to do plenty of hands on stuff with them, i remember when i was clipping my goose's wings when i first got them (the breeder had told me stories of them taking out their powerlines mind you) the thought did occur to me that it wouldn't be that much more of a stretch to kill one if i had to.. in a pinch.. You know if i couldn't go buy chicken anymore. Haha a funny thought to have, but a goose is a powerful bird and mine are not hand raised so to do that without fuss and with no help, i felt pretty capable

 

[Akrnaf2]

You always can call him "Hen"!
Bon a petite!
Chicken Curry with coconut cream sounds yummy!

 

[bobbi-j]

I don't want him unfortunately and i wont even be able to give him away. All good, i will have to get used to culling when i start hatching for the freezer. Time to put all the youtube videos into practice tomorrow.

Sounds like a great plan! You've gotta start somewhere, if you plan on hatching for the freezer.

 

[FrankHomestead]

Thanks! I seem to have good luck so far with keeping my animals calm. I have had to do plenty of hands on stuff with them, i remember when i was clipping my goose's wings when i first got them (the breeder had told me stories of them taking out their powerlines mind you) the thought did occur to me that it wouldn't be that much more of a stretch to kill one if i had to.. in a pinch.. You know if i couldn't go buy chicken anymore. Haha a funny thought to have, but a goose is a powerful bird and mine are not hand raised so to do that without fuss and with no help, i felt pretty capable

Kudos to you!!! Geese scare me, I stay away from them at parks LMBO they are aggressive as heck to get that stale bread you're feeding the ducks. Though I'm talking about Canadian geese here...they are jerks.
If it doesn't sound too weird and if it's not too much of a hassle, I'd love to see any pics of your process

 

[FrankHomestead]

You always can call him "Hen"!
Bon a petite!
Chicken Curry with coconut cream sounds yummy!

Or butter chicken! with a side of saag mmmmm (the only Indian dish I've cooked thus far lol)