Pheonix Thread

[ChickenLeg]

Banny silvers, 1 of the 3 females has a nice wide flat tail, other two arent the smoothest. 1of4 males has a nice flat tail too, others are just soso. Hope they have nice colour, if i get 1 good pair out of the 7 ima be happy.

Using them in my crele easter egger project to add some of the long tail genes.

 

[Michael99]

I have 13 separate pens, all but three are Phoenix. I only have one dedicated to roosters, the others are all separated by color or selected pairs, trios. The two roosters that I have separated are in an 8x8 open air coop. They rarely step foot on the ground. They get plenty of greens in their diet so not worried about that. I have the hardest time keeping the tails in good condition, and I’m my own worst enemy as I stepped on one recently and pulled out not one, but two feathers!

It’s seriously a mix of birds that don’t have a breeding purpose yet, but they’re too nice to get rid of lol

I feel your frustration about accidentally pulling out the feathers, I've done that a few times too , and I always have mine in the breeding pens because I don't have enough extra pens to separate the roosters (not yet anyways!) so that certainly doesn't seem to help

 

[flowerfaeiry]

I feel your frustration about accidentally pulling out the feathers, I've done that a few times too , and I always have mine in the breeding pens because I don't have enough extra pens to separate the roosters (not yet anyways!) so that certainly doesn't seem to help

Yes, my breeders get pretty shabby. The hens destroy their tails and by the end of summer they are just pitiful. Even keeping the two roosters together is damaging. Ideally, I would like to have 6-8 rooster coops, 3 or 4 breeding pens and one or two hen houses, but I didn’t plan very well, we just kept adding on breeding pens and there they stayed. At this point in our lives, we are downsizing as the workload is just too much. But let me tell you, it’s hard to stop lol.

 

[Barnyard Breeder]

We never had a problem with the pens our phoenixes had a big coop but just free ranged. We only started with two roosters and everyone new there place and no other breeds could keep up with them so they didn’t even go near them

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Knock on wood, my incubator was delayed to a latter delivery and hubby bought me a hatching egg as a surprise. I stoped collecting eggs and put the hatching egg in with my one hen’s nest... it’s a long tail egg... please hatch! She does seem to be spending good long sits on the eggs... I also took her free range privileges away from her to encourage her to be broody.

 

[Michael99]

Knock on wood, my incubator was delayed to a latter delivery and hubby bought me a hatching egg as a surprise. I stoped collecting eggs and put the hatching egg in with my one hen’s nest... it’s a long tail egg... please hatch! She does seem to be spending good long sits on the eggs... I also took her free range privileges away from her to encourage her to be broody.

You shouldn't have any problems, as it stands right now about 1/3 of my hens have gone broody so they're all sitting on eggs! You gotta make sure that she's actually broody though because if she sits on the egg long enough it will start developing, and if she's not really broody she'll stop setting and then the embryo will die.

In the past I've given hens eggs that I thought were broody but weren't yet totally committed, so I learned the hard way

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

That’s my concern... going to have to candle it soon.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Sadly the egg developed but did not hatch... after the incubator came we moved the egg to it, and everything seemed okay till the end. Total failure to hatch all eggs and the longtailed egg when we cracked it open had a fully developed chick, just dead... bummer. We really think the issue is with incubator... we purchased 2 other ones completely different... eggs are hatching in those, incubator #1 has no way to accurately monitor humidity. So we need to DIY some improvements to it... but number 2 and 3 are way easier to monitor adjust and chicks are hatching. We reordered a longtail egg... and some phoenix chicks we ordered from a hatchery showed, sadly one died... but the rest are doing great so 5 pheonix, 2 white and the other 3... silver and red maybe.

 

[flowerfaeiry]

Sadly the egg developed but did not hatch... after the incubator came we moved the egg to it, and everything seemed okay till the end. Total failure to hatch all eggs and the longtailed egg when we cracked it open had a fully developed chick, just dead... bummer. We really think the issue is with incubator... we purchased 2 other ones completely different... eggs are hatching in those, incubator #1 has no way to accurately monitor humidity. So we need to DIY some improvements to it... but number 2 and 3 are way easier to monitor adjust and chicks are hatching. We reordered a longtail egg... and some phoenix chicks we ordered from a hatchery showed, sadly one died... but the rest are doing great so 5 pheonix, 2 white and the other 3... silver and red maybe.

Hey, if you ever need eggs, let me know. I am usually overrun with eggs!

 

[flowerfaeiry]

Some of the boys. We finally have some warmer dry weather but the wind has been awful so they aren’t taking the best pics.