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DeannaA said:
I thought it can be upto 4 weeks?
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I've heard accounts of it happening that long. I think it's very rare. In my experience the longest has been 16 days actually (measured by a predator removing my last male of a breed and attempting to hatch from hens after he was taken), but 2 weeks should be enough for most cases, especially if you're replacing one male with another one.
 
BGMatt said:
I've heard accounts of it happening that long. I think it's very rare. In my experience the longest has been 16 days actually (measured by a predator removing my last male of a breed and attempting to hatch from hens after he was taken), but 2 weeks should be enough for most cases, especially if you're replacing one male with another one.
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That's good to know and less time they have to be seperated.
 
BGMatt said:
Just an add-on to what brahma is saying, you don't HAVE to breed from all your females either. If you want to run entire flock together, do it, but then during breeding season (a couple months at most) separate into a couple pens, with the right males, and your best 2 or 3 females. I have a friend that does this with Leghorns. They all run together in his big main coop year round, but he has 3 12x12 pens in addition. He hatches 2 months out of the year, he puts one male and a couple females in each 12x12 pen, once those two months are up, the breeders rejoin the rest of the flock and he uses those pens to finish growing out his young birds, those are the ones he will pick his personal keepers from. By winter time the young birds join his main flock and the extra pens sit empty til next breeding season. If people want to buy eggs or chicks from him he collects them from the combined flock. Just a bit of thinking outside the box that works for him.
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From this breeding season I plan on keeping a trio and just strictly showing them. This year I have to break up my breeding pens earlier than I would like just to start show conditioning. I like the idea of just separating for breeding and then tossing everyone in one pen. If you plan to show that just won't work though. I plan on doing five shows this year with the first being in June. Takes two to two and half months for them to be fully ready. Nice thought but if showing them is in your plans it may not work for you. Could just put all hens together and just separate the males.
 
brahmabreeder said:
From this breeding season I plan on keeping a trio and just strictly showing them. This year I have to break up my breeding pens earlier than I would like just to start show conditioning. I like the idea of just separating for breeding and then tossing everyone in one pen. If you plan to show that just won't work though. I plan on doing five shows this year with the first being in June. Takes two to two and half months for them to be fully ready. Nice thought but if showing them is in your plans it may not work for you. Could just put all hens together and just separate the males.
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That works too. The situation you speak of is why a lot of folks won't show their breeders (the other popular reason for not showing breeders is they're too valuable to take chance of health risks). That does involve having a whole other housing situation for your non-breeding birds though.
 
cluckcluckluke said:
What months/ seasons are breeding season?? I always thought rooster mated all year round, well my rooster does.
Keep in mind I'm in Australia.
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I don't about for Australia but here my breeding season starts now. It will end in early to mid March. Asiatic breeds have to be hatched early in order to be old enough for the fall shows( that's when we have the bulk of our shows ). Now with having a Mediterranean breed that matures much faster you could get away with breeding/hatching a little later. Say February through maybe May( birds hatched in May are kind of pushing it for them to old enough to show in the fall). You may be in the same boat as the Asiatics because I thought I read some where that for the males to get those tails in it can take close to a year. Matt can probably answer that.
 

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