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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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... :)

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

I got my first batch of chickens and raised them from the egg. 5/6 turned out to be roo's. They are 4 or so months old. One roo has new home. Two more soon to go to farm. That leaves me with 2 cockerels and one small pullet... Not a great situation. What is your advice? I'm attempting to keep...

Hi all. I know this topic has been bled to death, like a female kept with 5 males. I have kept quails in the past at 1:3 as suggested by quail literature. I now understand this is not a good system and 1:5 - 1:8 is much better. I am living in a tiny townhouse so am trying to keep a low...