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[centrarchid]

The yard ornaments tie up a lot more acreage and they are at a minimum of a 150 yards from the yard with penned birds plus I have to have some natural borders to help define free-range bird territories.. That concept is of direct interest to maranfarmer. You have to invest a lot of effort in prevent scraps through wire but it can be done if acreage sufficient. My cockyard only ties up about an acre and I have a second one acre location pens are moved between production and off-seasons. Moving helps a lot with parasite management and helps increase that 150-yard minimum.

Badger actually had a run in with a car. They live all over our area but few people realize they are present. You would not believe the number of people that confuse that critter with a raccoon or groundhog.

 

[roosterhavoc]

In a totally unrelated matter here's a pic of an encased property visual stimulus

whoa thats not an American gamefowl

 

[sdm111]

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[maranfarmer563]

When breeding a grey cock over a red hen,is grey dominate? I didn't know they had badgers in Missouri,do you have armadillos,I've never seen either.

 

[centrarchid]

When breeding a grey cock over a red hen,is grey dominate? I didn't know they had badgers in Missouri,do you have armadillos,I've never seen either.

If grey cock is homozygous for grey, then all offspring thrown with be grey. If cock is heterozygous then you will get reds as well. You can usually distinguish the homozygote grey from the heterozygote by overall whiteness of hackles and where the het has a lot more orangish in the shoulder and saddle. Heretibilty of that and the toppy where my first lessons in genetics.



Badgers also in Illinois and Indiana but usually they are associated with areas that are historically prairie although row cropping really hammers them down. We have armidillos in MO and they are still expanding their range north. The just crossed the Missouri River in the last decade or so and one was working my back pasture last summer. The range map makers have a hard time keeping up with changes on the armidillos.

 

[centrarchid]

No dummy yet and have flu so looking this weekend not probable. To stay clear of trouble I just assume to have birds demonstrate speed, strength and smarts by engaging in voluntary manners that does not involve violence even on a dummy chicken. A dummy hawk might be more acceptable, might be. I think they could also be trained to chase a laser light.

 

[centrarchid]

@maranfarmer563


This is what I was trying to get you to do a while back. Picture below not best but can give a handle on area and land forms available. The area bordered by yellow is roughly occupied by my "yard ornament flock" and represents about 2.5 acres. The area to the left / west with the little squares (pens) across a small ditch is the winter quarters cockyard. The ditch, vegetation and even fences even not real barriers to movement are readily adopted as territorial boundaries. I can even get a gamecock and a non-gamecock to have touching territorial boundaries with occasional scraps without any real damage done. Dogs important for that. Two game roosters do not work even with dogs,

 

[maranfarmer563]

My yard flock is back where they were before I dubbed. Except one grey is missing,probably a hawk. So I penned up last grey rooster and last grey hen.

 

[sdm111]

Kelso hatch stag coming along very well. Looks almost identical to my sweater stag except sweater isn't quite as high station and has his streamers starting to come in and has white tips on his wing feathers.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Nice bird. I am absolutely sick and tired of the rain this winter. It's starting to become a nightmare. Cold enough to freeze ponds yet warms up enough for rain instead of snow every time.