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[Rexbandit]

Hay Jarvis do you have any show quality blue wheaten oegb for sale. Would real like some. Going to try and get into the showing of oegb's already have a nice starting of bb reds and silver duckwings that im feel confident that are show quality.

 

[Teach97]

babies!

 

[Rexbandit]

Hay Jarvis do you have any show quality blue wheaten oegb for sale. Would real like some. Going to try and get into the showing of oegb's already have a nice starting of bb reds and silver duckwings that im feel confident that are show quality.

 

[Ksane]

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I *have been looking for some girls. Matt just gave me a pretty chocolate/dun hen that's the sweetest thing. So I've got the BR Cockerel and 4 hens now and want more hens. Depending on how many of them I can find that I like I'm either going to put them in a 10x10 or a 5x8. I love those little birds since I got to know what their personalities are. I just don't want any more males, trying to gather up a big enough set of girls that no one gets over bred.
Do you have any females you're not keeping?

 

[Kassaundra]

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How do they get along w/ other chickens? Same breed or other? I was thinking there was some discussion about them being quite aggressive to other chickens, but I could be confusing them w/ some other breed. They also are the ones that only lay a couple times a year in batches right?

They are not flock chickens by any means. Some don't lay very well, and some lay very well.

Is that why when I see pics of them they are tied at the leg?

Do you have to keep them in trios or pairs?

 

[Allbreeds]

 

[nnbreeder]

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If raised together and not bred for agression they do pretty good but they won't tolerate another bird being introduced into the flock. Splitsocket222 has 90% of his birds out free-ranging with only the occasional problem when youngsters feel a bit frisky. LOL

If put under lights they do lay better not not as well as most breeds. The girl we have here in the house lays about 6 eggs then takes a few days to a week off before laying again. I wouldn't count on getting breakfast from them. Also you would suspect that a bird of that size would lay huge eggs but that is not the case. The girl here in the house lays an egg just about med. sized. In comparisin the Bantam NNs lay eggs nearly as big as hers are.

 

[Ksane]

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They are truely the pinnacle of both strengh and tenderness. They will gently call chicks over and give them first dibs on any tid-bits found and if need be defend the same with their lives.

Plus they are just plain cool!

How do they get along w/ other chickens? Same breed or other? I was thinking there was some discussion about them being quite aggressive to other chickens, but I could be confusing them w/ some other breed. They also are the ones that only lay a couple times a year in batches right?

Kass, what I'm going to do with my male in the spring is put him out with the 15 or so laying hens in their yard, he'll be the only male. Boys are said to do fine with their girls if there's enough girls for them but definitely not with other males (you don't have any males though). The females don't get along with other chickens or each other either. I just love mine.
AllBreed-I love your babies!!!!!

 

[GotGame]

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If raised together and not bred for agression they do pretty good but they won't tolerate another bird being introduced into the flock. Splitsocket222 has 90% of his birds out free-ranging with only the occasional problem when youngsters feel a bit frisky. LOL

If put under lights they do lay better not not as well as most breeds. The girl we have here in the house lays about 6 eggs then takes a few days to a week off before laying again. I wouldn't count on getting breakfast from them. Also you would suspect that a bird of that size would lay huge eggs but that is not the case. The girl here in the house lays an egg just about med. sized. In comparisin the Bantam NNs lay eggs nearly as big as hers are.

Split_socket doesn't have any mature cocks running loose, only young birds and a few hens. They have twenty plus acres to run on.

 

[nnbreeder]

In SE Asia where the breeds originate from they are flock birds but they are allowed to free-range which gives a bird room to get out of the way of a dominant bird. They are used primarily for meat birds due to their large frame.

Here in the U.S. they were used for other purposes so overly aggressive birds were bred. A trait that can also be bred out of them.

Right now in the grow-out pen there are NNs, Asils, Shamo, and a pair of Japanese Bantams with no problems. I will sit and watch them daily and a pecking order is well established and adhered to.

Before stray dogs made it nearly impossible to free-range here all of our birds ran together and until they were penned there were no agression problems. The birds we have that are the most agressive are the LF NN hens.