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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: funkyfish on May 16, 2012, 02:50:59 pm

Title: Proud of my boy!
Post by: funkyfish on May 16, 2012, 02:50:59 pm

I sent my I.G. Cockerel (From a very lovely person on here!) to a friends for a holiday to visit her IG and LS girls. They have had a 100% hatch rate!

We got 100% off him from our own eggs (x Faveral and LS). Very proud as he is just a year or so old and they dont always have goos fertility.

Planning next hatch now!

Title: Re: Proud of my boy!
Post by: Mammyshaz on May 16, 2012, 03:46:37 pm

 :thumbsup:  :chook:

Title: Re: Proud of my boy!
Post by: Oneeyedhen on May 16, 2012, 07:48:39 pm

I'm proud of our Scots Grey boy too, and his girls. I've sold eggs through here and some batches have been 100% successful. We've also just hatched out 16 eggs out of 24 in an incubator. Its just a pity he's such a grumpy git most of the time, very protective of his girls!!

Title: Re: Proud of my boy!
Post by: Fowlman on May 16, 2012, 09:08:06 pm

I hope you got your stud fees  ;D

Title: Re: Proud of my boy!
Post by: funkyfish on May 17, 2012, 07:49:28 am

Yay go your boy! ( and ladies!!) It's annoying when you have a feisty boy, we used to have a cross bred cockerel many years ago, had to have a massive water pistol to keep him at bay when you fed them!

Am having an IG and cream legbar hen as stud fee!! Just have to wait till they r a bit bigger to take them home!!

Prob wasn't a fab idea loaning him out for biosecurity reasons, all her birds are vaccinated and did isolate him for a short time, prob not long enough really though. All seams ok so hopefully got away with it!

Title: Re: Proud of my boy!
Post by: Oneeyedhen on May 17, 2012, 10:52:42 am

We must give the girls a lot of credit too. Like most creatures, they do far more than the boys  ;)