breeding pens

Morning all! Well it’s morning here in a very dull west cost of Scotland today! I’ve always had a flock of 30 plus free ranging, mixed breeds, 3+cockerels that generally ok the whole got on well together, they were all housed together with the geese, ducks chickens. However we had a pine...

I have a plan and a single pen for 2 different breeding projects. The same hens (I might take away some hens if I'm not looking for chicks from them from a specific roo), 2 diifferent roos. Let's call them roo1 and roo2. I want to collect/set eggs from roo1 in early February. I would seperate...

What do y’all believe to be the best scenario in a BBS pen?- particularly Ameracaunas and Marans. Blue roo over BBS hens? Black roo over BBS pens? Any other *kind* info is appreciated too!!

We are new to breeding, and new to owning roos, but have had chickens for a dozen years. We now have 12 cockerels (Australorp, Wyandotte, and Welsummer) and 12 pullets (same, plus Easter Egger), all 16 weeks old. The pullets are in a 7'x16' pen with an enclosed upper portion ~7'x7', plenty of...

I have been busy with improving the security for our chicken run. As of now, the chickens just run together. There are a few game mix hens, the Rooster in my avatar, a speckled hen, and a couple other partridge-type hens. For the main run and coop, I am looking to go more toward games and game...

I’m going to give a detailed description of my mobile breeding pen/chicken tractor for my laying hens with plenty of pictures. This is my third build of this design, and I’ve been slowly improving it with each build. I live in southern BC Canada, so we have fairly mild weather year round, and...

We are upgrading from an 8x6 modified shed to a 6 hole 24ft long breeding pen so we can separate our silkies and polish/polish frizzles by color. I found Jebs breeding pens and we based our plans off them loosely. We built a small mix-pen coop as we are calling it a few months ago, and decided...