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Ok, more questions - sorry! I have two sets of chicks. The oldest set is mixed flock of Bantams and standard sized chickens. Of this flock, three of the Bantams are roos. The LF were to be pullets and it appears that they all are. (I'm going to inspect my EEs today to see if I agree with myself, but they show no signs of roo-ness.)

Of the second set of chicks, it appears that most are roos. These are all Bantams and were purchased for fun, so they have earned a bachelor pen.

Now, I have a friend who wants to give away a LF roo. He is beautiful and close in age to my mixed flock. Now, in that mixed flock, my Sebright is clearly the roo in charge. The others seem to exist peacefully.

1. Do I take the LF roo for future breeding purposes? Or should I leave well enough alone?

2. Would I have to remove my Bantam hens so that the LF roo wouldn't hurt them?

What would you do?
 
winc564 said:
Ok, more questions - sorry! I have two sets of chicks. The oldest set is mixed flock of Bantams and standard sized chickens. Of this flock, three of the Bantams are roos. The LF were to be pullets and it appears that they all are. (I'm going to inspect my EEs today to see if I agree with myself, but they show no signs of roo-ness.)

Of the second set of chicks, it appears that most are roos. These are all Bantams and were purchased for fun, so they have earned a bachelor pen.

Now, I have a friend who wants to give away a LF roo. He is beautiful and close in age to my mixed flock. Now, in that mixed flock, my Sebright is clearly the roo in charge. The others seem to exist peacefully.

1. Do I take the LF roo for future breeding purposes? Or should I leave well enough alone?

2. Would I have to remove my Bantam hens so that the LF roo wouldn't hurt them?

What would you do?
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I have added a LF roo to a mixed flock before and he learned very quickly that my bantam roo was higher on the pecking than him lol. You can add them all together, just be careful and watch. Every flock is different. I'd introduce slowly with the new guy in a crate, in the run with them for a week or so before trying to integrate him and when you do integrate, do it by putting him on the roosts at night with everyone and be out there early to let them out in the morning to supervise. Some squabbling and pecking order rearrangement is normal (I don't stop squabbles unless I see blood). As for the bantam hens, you'll just have to watch and see. I have a tiny little game bantam hen in my flock. She's so tiny, she's barely above the knees of my bigger boys. Most of them don't even try to bother with her. I think they tried once or twice and realized she's too tiny so they leave her to my bantam roo. Don't know if any of that helped you or not lol
 
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I can feel it. This will be the day I get an egg. C'mooooooon eggs!
 
So......does anyone in SE pa know much about capons? My spring hatches of black sexlinks were mostly boys. Just got a kit and removed some testes yesterday. Seemed pretty easy. I'm just curious if I should feed them like my meat birds or do they need more/less protein.
 
@dheltzel

The first of my girls from your eggs laid her first egg today! Sky, the little CCL :)

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Hers is the little one in the middle :)

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She was a good girl and laid right in the nest box like she was supposed to :)

Now I'm waiting on Cleo to start (RB). She's been eyeing up the nest boxes lately too. Neither one of them have red faces yet though. The 3 marans girls from you don't have red faces yet either but they're not really looking at the boxes yet either.
 
Auroradream26 said:
@dheltzel

The first of my girls from your eggs laid her first egg today! Sky, the little CCL
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Hers is the little one in the middle
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She was a good girl and laid right in the nest box like she was supposed to
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Now I'm waiting on Cleo to start (RB). She's been eyeing up the nest boxes lately too. Neither one of them have red faces yet though. The 3 marans girls from you don't have red faces yet either but they're not really looking at the boxes yet either.
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Wow! you're doing something right, one of mine started laying just last week and she has at least a month, maybe 6 weeks on your CCL. I wish I could get you a CCL roo so you could start hatching her eggs.
 
BassetHound said:
So......does anyone in SE pa know much about capons? My spring hatches of black sexlinks were mostly boys. Just got a kit and removed some testes yesterday. Seemed pretty easy. I'm just curious if I should feed them like my meat birds or do they need more/less protein.
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Found this searching BYC forums: Meat Birds ETC
If you are raising the capons for meat, then they would require a higher % protein. We raise capons for the meat and feed from 18.5 to 22 % protein. Our target for processing is 22 to 24 weeks of age. The weight gain beyond that doesn't justify the continued feed cost. If on the other hand you caponize the birds for behavior modification or yard art pets then you could use layer feed. I'm not sure though how well the birds would thrive.

maybe this will help you??
 

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