International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[RoosterML]

I have a question about how you keep your extra Roos. If in a separate pen (bachelor pen) is the pen in site of the other birds?

 

[Bantambird]

For me, I pen the girls up in nice pens, the boys free range and have the hay barn and corral to patrol so there's lots of room for boys to be boys. Everyone is tucked in safely at night.

 

[Chooks man]

I have a question about how you keep your extra Roos. If in a separate pen (bachelor pen) is the pen in site of the other birds?

I pen all my roosters with cockerels in a bachelor pens. each group of young cockerels are penned with a adult rooster .
doesn t matter if the pen is in site of the other birds .
my breeding roosters/cockerels will stay with a hens only in breeding period . after that ,they are back to the bachelor pen .

chooks man

 

[Punkybrewster]

I was wondering the same thing. I know you say at 4 months to separate them.

Ive never separated my cockerels and hens before. With my 2 lines of bcm i will do this. Can i put all the cockerels from BOTH lines together or will they kill each other?

Im assuming i just do it as if i am introducing new birds....but i feel like it will cause a lot of fighting in the cockerel pen. I dont have any roosters. They would all be young and only a month apart.

Maybe introduce them all at the same time to a new pen so it will be new to all of them?

 

[chickengr]

I was wondering the same thing. I know you say at 4 months to separate them.

Ive never separated my cockerels and hens before. With my 2 lines of bcm i will do this. Can i put all the cockerels from BOTH lines together or will they kill each other?

Im assuming i just do it as if i am introducing new birds....but i feel like it will cause a lot of fighting in the cockerel pen. I dont have any roosters. They would all be young and only a month apart.

Maybe introduce them all at the same time to a new pen so it will be new to all of them?

good idea.

 

[Chooks man]

I was wondering the same thing. I know you say at 4 months to separate them.

Ive never separated my cockerels and hens before. With my 2 lines of bcm i will do this. Can i put all the cockerels from BOTH lines together or will they kill each other?

Im assuming i just do it as if i am introducing new birds....but i feel like it will cause a lot of fighting in the cockerel pen. I dont have any roosters. They would all be young and only a month apart.

Maybe introduce them all at the same time to a new pen so it will be new to all of them?

it is very important to pen the cockerels in a same time .other wise they will fight harder .
I pen them night time ,they will fight a little when they are up ,but nothing serious .usually a adult rooster will stop any fight or bad behavior .
keeping roosters with hens all year around and feeding them a layer diet is very bad practice .those type of roosters will no last long .because of the high calcium in they diet .

chooks man

 

[RoosterML]

Well I went and did it again! I was so please with the hens from one of the breeders that I purchased eggs from this spring that I went and bought 27 more to fill the incubator.

 

[Chooks man]

Well I went and did it again! I was so please with the hens from one of the breeders that I purchased eggs from this spring that I went and bought 27 more to fill the incubator.

you have done well .hope all they hatch for you .
good looking dark /large eggs .
good luck

chooks man

 

[TheBajan]

Day 14...
23 shipped eggs total; 3 clear and 1 early quitter. 19 going strong! I am so excited and nervous at the same time! After my last hatch of only 1 out of 18, I can't help but be nervous. I weigh my eggs to check humidity levels and I found that they haven't lost as much weight as they should so I lowered my humidity from 45% down to 40%. The biggest egg in the hatch only lost 2% weight but it's looking strong. I don't know if there's anything else i should be doing and advice is appreciated!

 

[marchick]

Day 14...
23 shipped eggs total; 3 clear and 1 early quitter. 19 going strong! I am so excited and nervous at the same time! After my last hatch of only 1 out of 18, I can't help but be nervous. I weigh my eggs to check humidity levels and I found that they haven't lost as much weight as they should so I lowered my humidity from 45% down to 40%. The biggest egg in the hatch only lost 2% weight but it's looking strong. I don't know if there's anything else i should be doing and advice is appreciated!

I hope you get a good hatch. I hatch at 35% the first 18 days. When they go into lockdown on day 18 I raise humidity to 65%.