Without a long winded explanation of the title, which is a metaphor incidentally, We hatch, raise, rehome poultry to supplement income and off set feed costs etc.
Bi monthly hatches currently. Chicks leave here slowly, young adults more quickly, but if they are not rehomed by the time they start laying, their free range status is revoked and they are placed into population with the group in the big house.
What the premise of this thread is,
some of the no longer lucky ladies have a harder time during transition to population if they have been lubby-dubbied too much. They seem to be to mellow and harassed more by the alpha's than the skittish ones who didn't hang out with me during the pre transition days. I have noticed if a bird becomes tame to human interaction, it will prefer human company as well.
We just introduced 20 birds to the big house 3 days ago. Out of that twenty, 5 were what I will call "teacher's pets". Those 5 are getting pecked and harassed the most. The biggest one but also to biggest human lover, had to be put back out to free range.
I kind of feel when you are going to raise birds in large numbers, take it easy on the treating them as a pet and lowering feral ness, if you have plans to integrate upon their maturity.
Bi monthly hatches currently. Chicks leave here slowly, young adults more quickly, but if they are not rehomed by the time they start laying, their free range status is revoked and they are placed into population with the group in the big house.
What the premise of this thread is,
some of the no longer lucky ladies have a harder time during transition to population if they have been lubby-dubbied too much. They seem to be to mellow and harassed more by the alpha's than the skittish ones who didn't hang out with me during the pre transition days. I have noticed if a bird becomes tame to human interaction, it will prefer human company as well.
We just introduced 20 birds to the big house 3 days ago. Out of that twenty, 5 were what I will call "teacher's pets". Those 5 are getting pecked and harassed the most. The biggest one but also to biggest human lover, had to be put back out to free range.
I kind of feel when you are going to raise birds in large numbers, take it easy on the treating them as a pet and lowering feral ness, if you have plans to integrate upon their maturity.
