Hello
I have a 10-11 month old Faverolles 'Tiramisu' and she crows! But it needs to stop/reduce as we live in urban area.
Pretty sure its because there is no rooster. She is also the biggest in the flock, as the 5 other hen's are a mix of barbu d'uccle and pekin bantam. She seems to mostly crow around food time, but also other seemingly random times (both when we are in the yard and out of it). No spurs I can see as yet.
My options:
1. Add new flock members to change the pecking order
2. humanely induce moulting
3. something else
1. New flock members. Has anyone had any results doing it this way?
current options for new hen's are (i live about an hour from a city so have to go with whats local);
- buff pekins/ polish (pro: will suit majority of flock type, con: possibly not big/spicy enough, so might not change pecking order enough)
- aracauna pullets (pro: bigger than bantams, con: would come as 8wk old pullet, too young to change pecking order?)
- old english game bantam (pro: has some attitude, would definately give the pecking order a shake up, con: possibly too fiesty to add to an otherwise reasonably docile flock)
- hyline cross (pro: larger size might be 'competition' enough, con: possibly too placid)
- austrolorp (option of either a couple young ones (8wk old) or 3x hen's (2-4yrs)) (pro: larger size, not overly submissive, con: the young one might be too young, older hen's might pick on bantams instead?)
- something else?
2. induce moulting.
From my initial research it seems like reducing daylight hours to mimic autumn light (i am in the southern hemisphere) would be the most humane. Any results/issues with this method? any other details on how to do this method?
3. something else - obviously a few other options, rehome, do nothing etc. But I love Tiramisu and would like to keep her if possible
Thanks!!
I have a 10-11 month old Faverolles 'Tiramisu' and she crows! But it needs to stop/reduce as we live in urban area.
Pretty sure its because there is no rooster. She is also the biggest in the flock, as the 5 other hen's are a mix of barbu d'uccle and pekin bantam. She seems to mostly crow around food time, but also other seemingly random times (both when we are in the yard and out of it). No spurs I can see as yet.
My options:
1. Add new flock members to change the pecking order
2. humanely induce moulting
3. something else
1. New flock members. Has anyone had any results doing it this way?
current options for new hen's are (i live about an hour from a city so have to go with whats local);
- buff pekins/ polish (pro: will suit majority of flock type, con: possibly not big/spicy enough, so might not change pecking order enough)
- aracauna pullets (pro: bigger than bantams, con: would come as 8wk old pullet, too young to change pecking order?)
- old english game bantam (pro: has some attitude, would definately give the pecking order a shake up, con: possibly too fiesty to add to an otherwise reasonably docile flock)
- hyline cross (pro: larger size might be 'competition' enough, con: possibly too placid)
- austrolorp (option of either a couple young ones (8wk old) or 3x hen's (2-4yrs)) (pro: larger size, not overly submissive, con: the young one might be too young, older hen's might pick on bantams instead?)
- something else?
2. induce moulting.
From my initial research it seems like reducing daylight hours to mimic autumn light (i am in the southern hemisphere) would be the most humane. Any results/issues with this method? any other details on how to do this method?
3. something else - obviously a few other options, rehome, do nothing etc. But I love Tiramisu and would like to keep her if possible
Thanks!!
