Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Cadeau]

Thanks, Vicki!

Send you one back!

 

[gilavina]

Thanks, Vicki!

Send you one back!

super! I'm gonna go check it out!

 

[gilavina]

Hey Katelyn.... check your email!

 

[Cadeau]

Thanks for all the help!!
Zapped back a reply - will work on photos!

 

[gilavina]

got it!....I will probably wait to reply til tomorrow...more than likely in the evening as I work all day since its a truck day. I am in my unwind mode for the evening...where I try to get my brain to shut off for the evening so I can get some sleep. I had insane dreams last night and was up for a few hours because they bothered me so badly. Haven't had that happen in a long while

 

[Cadeau]

Thanks!
night!! No bad dreams!
Go relax w a cup of camomile tea!

 

[3riverschick]

The Poultry monthly: Volume 8 - Page 42 , 1886
http://tinyurl.com/88oomqk

Questions and Answers
by Philander Williams , Taunton, Mass.
"How many females in a breeding pen of Wyandottes to insure best results?
How to mate for most pullets in issue?
Adult male on pullets, cockerel on adult hens, cockerels on pullets, or adults of both sexes? C. S.

Answer:
If your birds have a natural run, or run at large, one cock is enough for 20 females of the smaller breeds.
If confined in a yard, 10 is enough for one male. To produce more pullets than cockerels in a mating,
use an adult cock and pullets; next, cockerel and hens. To produce nine-tenths cockerels, mate
cockerels with pullets."

 

[Christie Rhae]

The Poultry monthly: Volume 8 - Page 42 , 1886
http://tinyurl.com/88oomqk

Questions and Answers
by Philander Williams , Taunton, Mass.
"How many females in a breeding pen of Wyandottes to insure best results?
How to mate for most pullets in issue?
Adult male on pullets, cockerel on adult hens, cockerels on pullets, or adults of both sexes? C. S.

Answer:
If your birds have a natural run, or run at large, one cock is enough for 20 females of the smaller breeds.
If confined in a yard, 10 is enough for one male. To produce more pullets than cockerels in a mating,
use an adult cock and pullets; next, cockerel and hens. To produce nine-tenths cockerels, mate
cockerels with pullets."

Is this proven?? Very interesting..

 

[3riverschick]

The Philo system of progressive poultry keeping: Issues 41-47 - Page 17

Edgar Woodruffe Philo - 1908 - 64 pages
Begin quote:
CONTROLLING THE SEX.
To raise cockerels select a very strong, active male. A young bird is generally better than an old one. Then select hens that are from two to five years old. When but one hen is used in the breeding pen you will hatch from seventy to ninety per cent, cockerels. By increasing the number of females in the pen you will increase in proportion the number of females raised.
To raise nearly all pullets, use an old male bird or cockerel not especially active, mated to thirty or forty good lively pullets. You will not be likely to get the highest average fertility, but the chickens hatched will run largely to pullets. In one experiment we raised seventy pullets from seventy-seven* chickens hatched.
The early hatched chickens are likely to run to cockerels to a much greater extent than those hatched from the same pens later in the season.
When the vitality of the male is greatly in excess of the females the chicks will run largely to males, and when the females are superior in that respect, a large portion of the chicks will be pullets. (end quote)

 

[SD_Paulo]

The Poultry monthly: Volume 8 - Page 42 , 1886
http://tinyurl.com/88oomqk

Questions and Answers
by Philander Williams , Taunton, Mass.
"How many females in a breeding pen of Wyandottes to insure best results?
How to mate for most pullets in issue?
Adult male on pullets, cockerel on adult hens, cockerels on pullets, or adults of both sexes? C. S.

Answer:
If your birds have a natural run, or run at large, one cock is enough for 20 females of the smaller breeds.
If confined in a yard, 10 is enough for one male. To produce more pullets than cockerels in a mating,
use an adult cock and pullets; next, cockerel and hens. To produce nine-tenths cockerels, mate
cockerels with pullets."

Its an interesting theory! I would be interested in hearing if some of the more experience folks have hear of this preactice before?????