Post Phoenix Pics Please

[onagadori]

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Thank you..

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

x's 2

that's some beautiful feathering on him too, loads of saddles. If any of yall are looking, I'd jump on them!

 

[Soli]

Yes, he's beautiful - I think he'll go a long way to improve my stock

He'll get the luxury quarters, and my old Silver Duckwing Phoenix rooster can retire back out to free range with his old brown leghorn hen that he loves to death.

 

[onagadori]

Thanks Soli, I know you will enjoy him..
ohh yeah, He has been in my rooster room so he is a total sweetheart to boot!!!! Enjoy!

 

[onagadori]

We made it through first year molt!!!!!!

 

[Soli]

This will be his new home:

The coop has tall perches for tails, and the gravel keeps waste well drained and gives them lots to scratch in. I also use this to grow out the youngsters once they're feathered since there's plenty of room for everyone to get away from each other. There's 3 hens and 19 chicks ranging from 8-12 weeks of age. Most of the chicks will be sold next year, although once my extra pen is done I may raise some of the roosters on perches to see how their tail growth develops.

I now have two tall 8x4x6 pens on either side of this large one that house the sumatra and the BBR Phoenix - I'm waiting on the finishing of a shed row (expected by Christmas time) that will provide an additional 4 separate 8x6x4 pens.

 

[onagadori]

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That looks absolutely GREAT!!!!!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep it does Soli
Looks like an over grown Tomebaku

 

[Soli]

I call it the Outhouse

I'm trying to come up with a pen design that allows more range of movement than a tomebaku but protects the tail growth nearly as well. Probably a pointless thought since I suppose the Japanese would have considered that centuries ago

I have an area in the barn to build some pens - whether they be actual tomebaku or variations on the theme, once I'm producing stock of the quality to need them. It would be out of sight of the hens, but not earshot of the roosters.

 

[onagadori]

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I have found that individual pens of 8x8 ft or so work great with high roosts until the tails reach lengths of five ft or so.. Much easier than tomebaku and exercising. Although I have done both.. But that is an easier option until the tails reach longer lengths.