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  1. BrahmaBaby

    Birchen modern game bantams

    Hello, I have two questions. First, I found a pair of game bantams and was wondering if it is alright to keep a male and female together. I knkw generally you want a ratio of one male to a bunch of females depending on breed, but would it be okay to just have one and one? Also, is there...
  2. D

    Flock Building

    Our Ancona drakes have been really into our Black Swedish ladies…to the point that they will pursue them through the whole garden. It’s happened a few times that one of the ladies will be separated from the flock and I recently spied one who had been sitting alone for quite a long time and was...
    • DuckTapePalace
    • Thread
    • drakes ducklings flock hens ratio
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. paradisepentacoop

    Ratio of Hens to Roosters- Should I add more hens?

    Good day all, As some of you may have seen in the past, I am looking to offload at least two of the four Sebright roosters I have to better balance with the three hens. With a 2 to 3 ratio, I still think that there will be some issue. The reason I want to keep two is the feather coloring and...
  4. Papaye

    BRAHMA : How many hens per rooster

    Hello. So... I know this person who is going to cull some beautiful roosters on the weekend... and he did ask me if I wanted to buy one of them. And after thinking about it : if weather allows me to get out of my area in the next days, I plan to buy 1, maybe 2 one-year-old Brahma roosters - so...
  5. Wandering_r0gue

    The Good and the Bad

    Checked on the birds this morning and had a couple of surprises: good and bad: The Good: I got my first Egg! The Bad: 2 of my Roos got into a fight and one was a bit bloodied. I cleaned him up and isolated him to recover. My Hen:Roo ratio is lower than I'd like, so probably a bit too much...
    • Wandering_r0gue
    • Thread
    • fighting roos first egg infirmary injury isolated quail ratio
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Quail
  6. Owen_Blandford

    Hen to Tom Ratio

    I got 6 turkey chicks from tractor supply and we think that there are 3 toms and 3 hens. is that a good ratio? They will be free-range turkeys.
  7. mybackyardhobbyfarm

    Best ratio for Call ducks

    What is the best ratio for call ducks ? We have 7 call ducks , from several different locations. 2 drakes and 5 ducks First we got a pair, and then another pair, and then a bonded group of 3 girls . They tend to stick to their own cliques… the two pairs hang out together and the group of...
  8. Launchpad

    3 baby ducklings...one has turned out to almost definitely be male. Numbers/logistics questions

    Hello all This will be a lengthy one, So we began with 2 Pekin, one male (Niles) and one female (Daphne, who laid her first egg this morning!). Knowing that more females were necessary, we ordered 3 ducklings from @Metzer Farms . 2 Cayuga and 1 Silver Appleyard They were born about June...
    • Launchpad
    • Thread
    • #silverappleyard cayuga coop ducklings ducks enclosure pekin pen ratio
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. meepANDpeep

    5 chicks turned out to be 3 roosters and 2 hens - What do I do?

    I’ve grown out 5 chicks - 2 that I hatched and 3 that I got at 1 day old. They’re my first chickens and I’m very attached, and they’ve grown up together. They’re my pets, and they even lived in my room for most of their life to date. Now that they’re older I’m starting to be able to tell which...
  10. valper

    How many roosters are too many?

    I have a flock of 12 laying hens and 5 pullets, 1 mature rooster and 4 cockerels. The young ones are 20 weeks old and should soon start reaching maturity. I would like to keep all of the roosters since they free range most of the time but due to local ordinances, all chickens must be held...
  11. AkinliAdventure

    Voted off the Island

    So turns out that my quail Clarity is a male. So 2:2 ratio was going on and I didn’t even know. The guy that we bought him from told us that he was a girl after we had to get him because one of our quails died. The other boy looks more “fertile” which makes sense because we thought Clarity was a...
  12. B

    Neighbors Birds

    Hello Everyone! Our neighbor raised 4 turkeys this spring. The males are are very friendly and tame. There are 3 males and 1 female. Will the female be injured in the spring by the males? They are very large, and I'm afraid the might hurt her. She is too skittish to put a saddle on. Any...
    • Birdnerd04
    • Thread
    • breeding females flock flock ration males neighbors pets ratio turkey turkeys
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Turkeys
  13. awyman

    Drakes.

    Has anyone ever had a group of drakes that weren’t rough with females? I have 4 drakes and 7 girls. I know that’s a terrible ratio. I really hate to rehome any of my drakes because I’ve grown so attached to them. I know I could always get more females but I hate to do that because I already have...
    • awyman
    • Thread
    • drakes drakes for hens duck ratio ducks female duck need advice ratio
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. Woodey2

    Female to Male ratio for Bob whites

    I have two groups of bob whites. Group 1 has 3 females and 2 males. Group 2 has 4 females and 3 males. I read that they pair up. Questions: How do I know who is paired up with who? Do I pull out one female in each group? Or leave them be someone will get lucky and have two females... :)
    • Woodey2
    • Thread
    • female male mating pair quail ratio
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Quail
  15. awyman

    Ratio of Females to Males?

    I’m a new duck owner and I have a total of 11 ducks. I think I ended up 4 girls and the rest are boys. I know this is not a good ratio. A lot of the sites I’ve read said sometimes if you have too many drakes, a lot of the time people butcher them. I won’t do that, so what should I do? Should I...
    • awyman
    • Thread
    • drakes duck advice ducks enclosure ratio
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Ducks
  16. michaelbell317

    Grit + feed questions

    Today is the day we move the chicks outside to their coop. They're about 5-8 weeks old now. Some were older than others when we bought them. My question, though, deals with grit and their chick feed. Do I mix the grit in with the food and if so, what's a good ratio? Is it better to just...
  17. T

    Mass of meat from the chicken

    has anyone here recorded the mass of a chicken pre-slaughter and then its mass after processing it(removing its guts and feathers etc). If anyone here has I would really like to know those records. I'm curious to see how much of the bird is actually the processed meat we get in the end.
    • TheDisease21002
    • Thread
    • chicken cull feathers guts mass meat bird percentage processing ratio slaughter
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  18. J

    Too many female coturnix quail

    Hello all. This might sound like a hard to believe thread, but wanted to ask anyway. I incubated 48 quail eggs and 35 hatched and 2 didn't make it so I have 33 happy quail now at three weeks of age and outside in a pen. The problem is our of the 33 left I only see maybe 2 male and even they...
    • Jheath74
    • Thread
    • coturnix eggs female male quail ratio roos
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Quail
  19. Bat

    Predetermining rooster to hen ratio in hatches

    So we generally hatch more roosters than hens but this season we have so far hatched 7 confirmed and 2 suspected roosters out of 9 hatched chicks. That seems spectacularly unlikely. Does anyone have any similar experiences? Is it luck of the draw or, for example, are roosters more hardy in the...
  20. Nashvillecarrie

    Why did my Pekin hen die?

    I had a flock of 13 pure Pekins- 3 drakes and 9 hens. So a 3-1 ratio. I realize it could be better; but thought we were doing ok. Please note that 5 of those hens were just added 2 months or so ago when I could tell the original hens were getting worn down. Tonight I go out to put food and water...
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