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[FarmerJohn3285]

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Sorry if I missed it, but how old are they?

 

[tiffanyg2]

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I want to see Joy's Sebastopol Gosling!!! I just saw on her webpage blog she got one

I'm waiting for the approval to visit the farm

 

[tiffanyg2]

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By the way nice Melon! I am waiting for mine to flower!! Both my cantalopes and and pumpkins started flowering... now only if I can keep the chickens away!

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

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Here are the pictures I snapped last night....enjoy!

My dog house find as mentioned above.

My rabbit hutch turned coop. Houses a trio of Speckled Sussex. They are 3.5 months old.

One of the SS pullets.

My Delaware Rooster (3.5 months old). One of his pullets behind him & an EE roo(bound for freezer camp) in the very back of the picture.

These are Jack's (phoneman) Light Sussex chicks. They are 1 month old. I'm almost certain you have 1 roo & 1 pullet, Mr. Jack. I have my methods of sexing, but I'm keeping it a secret for now

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I meant to say nice melon, too!
Oh, how I wish the hail had not damaged my little garden! I understand what all the pioneers went through now but I would not change a thing. Well, some weather maybe

....but not where I live or how I live.

I, too, have got to go see Joy's goslings! She says they are so sweet! I just don't want to be tempted with such sweethearts because no matter how they look, I am a sucker for sweetness.

Great little coops!

That's the way to use the old noggin. Make more pens and coops!

Love the birds. They look to be growing up all fat and sassy.

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

Amy, and all you other bird raising gooroo's, is it too soon to add my 3.5 month old pullets to their respective flocks? EE with EE flock, SLW with RIR (to make rsl chicks).

They've got places to run and get away from the older birds if need be...but I was mor concerned with the roo's trying to mate them. What do ya'll think? i need to free up some room in one of my coops cuz they are starting to outgrow it.

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

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I haven't had a problem with my roo. The youngsters play together and the roo hangs out with the older ladies. He doesn't bother the chicks either.

 

[Larkspur88]

He had some a lot of darker blue ones but I liked the light ones and picked out them.

 

[Larkspur88]

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Sorry if I missed it, but how old are they?

I think they are around 10 weeks the chickens. No idea on the pheasants. I don't know anything about the species. I've got a lot of learning to do. I think he told me but I had a lot to absorb when I saw all the pretty birds at his house.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Depends on my roos as when I add to flocks.
My white bantam Cochins are so gentle and easy on the hens that I often just put growing up girls of all breeds in those pens before putting in the actual breeding pens for their variety.
I have BLRW, Araucana and Marans that are about 4-5 months old and they are still in the grow up pen (trampoline) but my MF Cochin roo is antagonizing them. He stays after all the pullets in that pen so he needs to go to the freezer or be sold. Only my whites are gentlemen, it seems.
I like my girls to have plenty of peace and quiet before the rough life of breeding and laying sets in. It's a plan, anyhow.

All I can say is to test the waters and see how it goes. Most of my roos are super but I don't want to cage them with roos that may get rough. If I feel brave I let them free range and my roos will ignore the younger girls over those big egg laying machines. At least until a bantam MF Cochin boy wanders by. He don't care how old they are, a girl is a girl is a girl!