The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

[Silver Rock]

[COLOR=800080]That is just AWESOME!  That is great that you and your brother share the same love.  It really will be lots of fun for you two![/COLOR]

Hi Vickie me, my father and my brothers spent at least 3 hours looking over the Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks this evening deciding on which birds should be bread together. We are looking at having 3 breeding pens this year and at least 5 breeding pens "most likely more" next year. We will be keeping records on many different breeding setups to see which setup produces the best in Type to move forward with. It was very nice to have my father & brothers in the poultry yard today as it brought back many memoirs of us setting and looking over birds in my fathers poultry yard years ago.

Clayton Grace

 

[Ripster]

Hi Vickie me, my father and my brothers spent at least 3 hours looking over the Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks this evening deciding on which birds should be bread together. We are looking at having 3 breeding pens this year and at least 5 breeding pens "most likely more" next year. We will be keeping records on many different breeding setups to see which setup produces the best in Type to move forward with. It was very nice to have my father & brothers in the poultry yard today as it brought back many memoirs of us setting and looking over birds in my fathers poultry yard years ago.

Clayton Grace

Clayton it sounds like a good time was had by all.

Rip

 

[Silver Rock]

Clayton it sounds like a good time was had by all.

Rip

It definitely was Rip, my father said for me to tell your name sounds very familiar and it is very nice to hear from someone that also grew up around his stomping grounds. He told me that you and Tommy was closer to the same age as my father was a little older that the two of you. He was also talking about a man by the name of Mr Oberry that you may also remember.

Clayton Grace

 

[normanack]

Anne, if you see this, I found this boy over in a cockerel pen of 6 or 7 young bachelors. Just as I was about to snap his photo, he turned his back to the wind and it blew his tail apart, but he's got a fine tail. Are these guys really as "thick" as they appear? Oh, yes. These are real Rocks you can eat. About a fist and a half between the legs and 10 lbs plus and he's just 11 months old. Great big, round, front end. He'll do. Saw this guy as a youngster last October and tagged him in my mind. Yup, he finished pretty nicely. Should we stuff this fella in a box and bring him back north? We'll see.

Nice!

 

[beausonge]

Hi Vickie me, my father and my brothers spent at least 3 hours looking over the Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks this evening deciding on which birds should be bread together. We are looking at having 3 breeding pens this year and at least 5 breeding pens "most likely more" next year. We will be keeping records on many different breeding setups to see which setup produces the best in Type to move forward with. It was very nice to have my father & brothers in the poultry yard today as it brought back many memoirs of us setting and looking over birds in my fathers poultry yard years ago.

Clayton Grace

What a wonderful time you all had and it is great to hear your father getting involved in the discussions. My father loved to garden and my favorite photo of him is him on his knees hand weeding around his beloved cabbages. Enjoy your time with him.

Vickie

 

[aoxa]

How many hens can one male inseminate? I have my older male in with 14 girls. He is not getting them all fertilized, but I'd hate to add my best boy and have his father hurt him. I can't split them up, all out of breeding pens.

He is getting the younger girls before the older girls. He especially likes my CX girls in the same pen (I am working on my own meat bird crossed with BPR). So he had preferences.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Aoxa, 14 is too many. He'll choose his favorites and ignore others, most likely.

In a flock breeding situation, you've likely far exceeded his capacity and his interest. Take some of his lesser favorites out of that pen. It seems likely that less will be more here. Can you take out half the females and let them run/penned somewhere?

He can/will cover 14 females, but only 7 this week and the other 7 next week, kind of arrangement. Something like this may increase the chances of having higher fertility. He's gonna need a week off too, to recharge his batteries.

 

[aoxa]

Aoxa, 14 is too many. He'll choose his favorites and ignore others, most likely.

In a flock breeding situation, you've likely far exceeded his capacity and his interest. Take some of his lesser favorites out of that pen. It seems likely that less will be more here. Can you take out half the females and let them run/penned somewhere?

He can/will cover 14 females, but only 7 this week and the other 7 next week, kind of arrangement. Something like this may increase the chances of having higher fertility. He's gonna need a week off too, to recharge his batteries.

I can switch him out with Gatsby, but his batteries won't charge. He will be with the layers, and will mate them I'm sure.

I bet a younger male will be more keen to mate the girls anyway.

 

[Silver Rock]

Hi Rip & Vickie here is one more old picture I came across this morning that I would like to post then I will quit high jacking this thread with old pictures. My father, two brothers and me looking over some chickens in the poultry yard when we still lived in Florida year of 79 or 80.

 

[aoxa]

Hi Rip & Vickie here is one more old picture I came across this morning that I would like to post then I will quit high jacking this thread with old pictures. My father, two brothers and me looking over some chickens in the poultry yard when we still lived in Florida year of 79 or 80.

Vintage farming photos are all the rage on Facebook right now Clayton. I really enjoy looking at old photos like this. My father had chickens growing up, but his house burned down when he was about 10 or so, and all those pictures are gone.