What Breed and Genders do you think we have?

[DTchickens]

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Matt A NC - thanks for answering my other question. We have had no eggs yet, but I put this down to them being somewhere around 15 weeks old and mother hen being too busy raising her young to worry about laying, but your comment about not laying in winter has taught us something.

So with three males in the flock what are our options with them?
My wife states it would be hard to find three of them a home as people dont want males and we couldnt use them to breed as they are related.
We have neighbours that would probably and very quickly become annoyed when they begin their dawn chorus

Is there a correct time to remove them from the flock?

7-9 months, sometimes it can be younger or it may take 10 months. By then though with games you can only have one rooster. You can probably find them a home on here, games are fairly easier to find homes for than most farm chickens as people love them for their personalities, beauty, flock protection/broodiness etc.

 

[Laxeybobby]

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Great thanks for that - We'd prefer them to find a home rather than end up on the plate - We are on an Island off the West Coast of the UK and by looking at all the replies in this post this forum is mainly USA. Still we will try and rehome them.

 

[Laxeybobby]

Hi all,

Sorry to continue this thread but having used your knowledge imparted to us via this post, I have been amongst our birds, and I think I have identified 4 males and 2 females (not including the mother)

I have taken pictures of them again today and finally would like your final opinion;

Three males all stood together?

The fourth and smallest male?

Female chick?

Female chick?

Last question we promise...

This bread of chickens are they socialable with other breeds? When we find new homes for the males we would like to make up the numbers with new females, but we can't guarantee we would find the same breed.


Mother (I know this for sure

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[Chris09]

You got it..

Chris

 

[DTchickens]

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They can be sociable but it really depends on the individual hens and how aggressive they are. I'd research them a lot if i were you, those are either American or Old English games, there is an article in the Breed section on Americans and plenty of other sites on the web if you do a search. Even if those are Old English you could read the American article and get a key into their personality, they're very similar to each other and in Australia, and sometimes the UK American gamefowl often get called Oxfords because of their similarities in personality and looks. However reading about both breeds they're different.

 

[BoiseBubba]

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