Pics? Red pyle I'd choose for red leakage!! Does your red pyle look like my cockerel?
Is it possible to put roosters on rotations? Like keep 1 or 2 separate and whenever I want the colors move them around? @LadiesAndJane
I don’t see why not though could be a little tricky as the hens can continue to lay eggs from a rooster for up to three weeks. You wouldn’t know for sure which chicks came from which rooster unless you keep them separated about a month in between rotations.
Thank you! I just hand raised my white rooster and can't process getting rid of him and yet I want the coloring of the red pyle!I don’t see why not though could be a little tricky as the hens can continue to lay eggs from a rooster for up to three weeks. You wouldn’t know for sure which chicks came from which rooster unless you keep them separated about a month in between rotations.
I have no personal experience with this please remember. I am just getting into breeding this year as well!
yay The first baby of the year/season was hatched today. I had to go to the post office and by the time I got home it was hatched. ❤❤
His dad was a blue and his mom was white, buff, or black.You could definitely rotate them. You may end up needing to have only 1 with the hens at a time and two separate pens for the extra boys since once they get separated they may not accept integrating with each other again.
I've rotated mine before. It does take a few weeks for the eggs to no longer be fertilized so if you add in a new boy you want to hatch from I'd wait a month before hatching eggs to ensure they are his offspring. Alternatively if you have three separate pens you can wait until you're seeing no bullseyes in the eggs to add in a new rooster after you've taken a rooster away. This is what I've done since I have multiple individual pens for some of my boys. It only took around 2 weeks to stop seeing any bullseyes the few times I've done it. I think it can really depend on who the cockerel/cock is though.
I'm thinking your boy with the red leakage is probably a columbian grey after seeing him so disregard what I said about maybe getting paint (since he won't have the required dominant white). If he was a red pyle the darker feathers he has would have been more randomly placed since the pigment holes in dominant white are not very uniform. I'm sure you'll still get an interesting variety with him probably with red leakage at least in a lot of the male offspring.
