I'm planning on putting my roosters for rotation, for which one gets to mate with mixed hens, depending on hen laying. Is this a good idea?

[Egg Snatcher]

So i have to isolate a couple, and for mixed, i need a seperate rooster?

Btw, these hens each have their own brood spots, that's why i can identify which is which. I put it like a rack, and they settled in, in the hays i put in the racks, so those racks kinda like their nesting site

To breed purebred chickens you have to have a rooster and a hen of the same breed. Example, RIR x RIR will give you 100% RIR offspring. To make a mixed you don’t have to isolate a rooster, it just means your breeding two different breed together. Mixing two crosses of the same cross dose not make the offspring pure. Example. RIR Cemanis mix x RIR Cemanis mix will just give you more mixed chicks.

 

[Syidan96]

To breed purebred chickens you have to have a rooster and a hen of the same breed. Example, RIR x RIR will give you 100% RIR offspring. To make a mixed you don’t have to isolate a rooster, it just means your breeding two different breed together. Mixing two crosses of the same cross dose not make the offspring pure. Example. RIR Cemanis mix x RIR Cemanis mix will just give you more mixed chicks.

Yeah, i know that, that's why i'll put one rooster, with many hens of different breeds AND the same breed together, because i know where they nest and brood, and both eggs in incubator and under the hens will be marked with pencil, noting the details of the parents, date and numbers according to which one is laid first. After, a week, I'll remove the rooster, and take in another rooster to accommodate. Once the eggs hatched, I'll seperate it immediately from the parents into brooding boxes where ilabel them with leg bands. The undesired ones will not be labelled and raise for its meat instead, and be isolated from purebreds, layers, and broilers. So does hybrids, to be isolated from aforementioned.



So, for example, 3 hens, RIR, WL, fayoumi and cemani in a pen, and i left fayoumi roo in it, the results would be, FxRIR, FxWL, Purebred Fayoumi, FxCemani. Each within their stationed nests. Then i move the hatchlings to my brood box, and label them, and before that, switching Fayoumi roo, to RIR roo, so in the coming time the hens lay again, it'll be Purebred RIR, RSL, RIRxF, and RIRxCemani. I'll repeat with different roosters this same method.

Solid?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

If your wanting hens to set on the eggs that’s a month of no eggs plus two weeks of no eggs

Switching a rooster a week after a rooster different rooster will not work. A hen will still be fertile from the previous rooster. You’d have to wait 3 weeks until the eggs would be fertile from the new rooster.

 

[Mrs. K]

If you can identify the eggs, or really for that matter - just wait until the chicks get their feathers - you should be able to identify them.

Personally, I don't like keeping that many roosters, and I don't like moving birds in and out of a flock. I think it messes up the dynamics in the flock.

But I have thought of just hatching one color of eggs each clutch.

Mrs K

 

[Syidan96]

If your wanting hens to set on the eggs that’s a month of no eggs plus two weeks of no eggs

Yes, i don't mind that.

Switching a rooster a week after a rooster different rooster will not work. A hen will still be fertile from the previous rooster. You’d have to wait 3 weeks until the eggs would be fertile from the new rooster.

Yeah, but my hens don't allow the rooster to be hanky panky with her due to them going broody. I personally observed this in my hens. Which means the rooster will be in together, but they don't mate yet due to hens becoming aggressive, and hissing when they became broody.

So timeline would be:
1.Beginning, First rooster, wait for hens to lay
2.After first lay, fill the incubator, after it is full, leave the eggs after marking it.
3.A week after the hen went broody, remove the first rooster.
4.A week after removing the first rooster, move in the 2nd rooster
5.Wait for hatchlings, then remove them.
Wait for hens to lay, even if it takes a month
6. Repeat 1 to 5 with different rooster.

 

[Syidan96]

If you can identify the eggs, or really for that matter - just wait until the chicks get their feathers - you should be able to identify them.

Personally, I don't like keeping that many roosters, and I don't like moving birds in and out of a flock. I think it messes up the dynamics in the flock.

But I have thought of just hatching one color of eggs each clutch.

Mrs K

I wanted to keep the flow, but somehow my giant roo, got bullied by smaller fayoumi rooster in there, and started to not crow, nor mate with the hens. Only 1 rooster becoming alpha there, and that wasn't my plan, that's why i started to plan this instead. Another thing is just bonuses, within minmaxing what i had in mind.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Yes, i don't mind that.

Yeah, but my hens don't allow the rooster to be hanky panky with her due to them going broody. I personally observed this in my hens. Which means the rooster will be in together, but they don't mate yet due to hens becoming aggressive, and hissing when they became broody.

So timeline would be:
1.Beginning, First rooster, wait for hens to lay
2.After first lay, fill the incubator, after it is full, leave the eggs after marking it.
3.A week after the hen went broody, remove the first rooster.
4.A week after removing the first rooster, move in the 2nd rooster
5.Wait for hatchlings, then remove them.
Wait for hens to lay, even if it takes a month
6. Repeat 1 to 5 with different rooster.

ok that should work.