No Friday before basketing open the boxes and give the cocks their bowl,once their in the bowl calling the hen open your sliding door/trap between your 2 sections,your hens will soon click on to what's happening and be in the cocks section before you can say jack jones,when she's in the box/bowl with the cock making a fuss of him time to basket,no hard and fast rules on length of time together (everyone's own pref)but I like to keep it as short as poss,then I basket the 2 together(separate baskets of course)