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[Ravynscroft]

View attachment 1065133 View attachment 1065134 Here ya go @sdm111
Needs some tweaking but should work for redfish. It's a pretty popular pattern but I didn't have all the materials so I substituted.

Nice...

But no hot pink, purple and glitter for Shubin?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Nice...

But no hot pink, purple and glitter for Shubin?

Lil better

 

[roosterhavoc]

Plenty of glitter. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Lil better
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He gonna be jealous...

Is that fox tail for the shrimp body or coon fur?

 

[roosterhavoc]

He gonna be jealous...

Is that fox tail for the shrimp body or coon fur?

Arctic fox dyed tan and red fox.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Arctic fox dyed tan and red fox.

I was sure it was fox, but I always second guess myself...

Serious question, if you don't mind... what is the youngest and the oldest young stags you've had run together before they needed to be separated?

 

[centrarchid]

I was sure it was fox, but I always second guess myself...

Serious question, if you don't mind... what is the youngest and the oldest young stags you've had run together before they needed to be separated?

Answers are going to differ, even mine from myself.

Variation is in part due to genetics. Currently, my stock represents almost exclusively one strain but we used to make battle crosses using other strains.

Core strain that we developed is where emphasis will be in my answer. About 5-weeks post-hatch is the earliest while the latest is almost 9 months. The range can be realized by offspring of the exact same matings. The early part of range which I assume is causing you grief occurs when I have a fast growing brood and the cock is either not present or especially if he is suddenly removed. Cock somehow suppresses fighting of chicks. The older end of spectrum can be realized also when cock present but with few or no hens on a walk. The cock seems to be the common denominator in he suppresses start of fights. Once fights start with older stags cock cannot stop them and as a rule gets embroiled himself.

The battles on younger side appear to be restricted to siblings of the same clutch. It is usually possible to ID broods preparing to explode the morning before it happens as they start making the aggressive "song" to each other. In the cockyard only setting I am in now the first approach I had was adding a cock / bullstag to a confined brood causing battle royal concerns and the aggression shuts down immediately. That approach has problems in that feeds for young birds are not the same as maintenance ration used for adults. A couple outsourced cocks have also proven also not trustworthy with young birds. Last fall Flypen suggested simply adding a stag to the mix and it works. More than half dozen broods since I have added a stag after pulling hen to suppress fighting. Playing around with this make me think the added stag need only be a little bigger than his charges. I was able to use 8-week old stags over 5-week old broods.

The problem is not restricted to stags, pullets can rain down aggravation as well. That seems to come when hen pulled and they will mix it up with male siblings.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Interesting...

 

[centrarchid]

Complicating.......

Walk raising presented so many fewer challenges but simply cannot do it any more.

 

[B123]

Centra, I need to pay closer attention for the "song". It seems that lately somewhere around 7 weeks of age males in the same brood have an initial battle. It seems to come with the first hot humid days that sets them on edge.