How many rounds?

[sapper756]

How many rounds would you expect a single hen to lay in one season, whether it be a racer or stock hen? :-/

 

And why?

 

 

Do you believe you can cause damage by over breeding with a single hen?

[Guest]

a raceing hen 2 rounds second one single reared

1st round before raceing starts 2nd round to set up for national flying

the cocks  race to a big youngster the hens to chipping egg (hopefully) ;D ;D ;D

 

a sock hen 3 rounds, one round floated under the racers you dont intend taking anything off,

2 to rear herself

 

dave

[Guest IB]

Not sure I've got the question right.  

 

I've noted during the breeding season the hen will lay to a monthly cycle .. put her on dummy eggs only, start off in January, lay her 1st say on 11th and she'll lay around the 11th of every month till you allow her to rear a round, or split the pair.

 

When the hen hatches out, she has X number of eggs in her ovaries. She cannot lay any more than that number X. So does it really matter whether you take X over 7 years or 10 years?  

 

The most I've ever taken is 5 rounds from a yearling hen and a 2 yo cock, with the same pair rearing 4 rounds. She is 7 this year and still very fertile with different cocks. Last year she laid as described above.

 

I find the difficulty with the round system is the 3rd round doesn't catch the YB racing. I prefer them to have race experience as YBs. I'm thinking of maybe just one round this year.

 

  

[thomasd]

can some one tell me im slipping eggs from stock birds to my yearlings if a stock bird laid on the 5th can i slip eggs under my yearlings if they laid on the 8th how many days can you give them

[Tom Avis]

Thomasd

 

This will mean that the eggs will hatch 3 days before the yearlings are expecting them to hatch (14th/15th day of incubation), this will be okay, but I wouldn't want to chance it an earlier, as the adopting parents need to be preparing to make "milk" and they start to do this around the 15th day of incubation.

 

 

Regards

Tom  

[thomasd]

so how many days can you give them 2 days apart is ok but threes days is abit to early for the yearlings

[peterpau]

can some one tell me im slipping eggs from stock birds to my yearlings if a stock bird laid on the 5th can i slip eggs under my yearlings if they laid on the 8th how many days can you give them

The other way round with yearlings would be a problem. Old hens will sit overtime yearlings may not. No worries with what you suggest.

 

 

[thomasd]

So what your saying is that yearling dont rare young ones as good as stock birds this is my 2nd year with racing pigeon i have some great stock bird my plan was to take 2 rounds but thier 1st round let the yearling rare them then the stock rare the 2nd know what i mean

[Guest KING BILLY]

remove the eggs of the stok birds as soon as it lays them put in shavings in the house then when the yearlings lay thare 2nd egg remove and put in the stok birds eggs then thay will hatch the same day as if it where thare own as long as thay have not bean incubated in any whay from the stok doos

[peterpau]

No body is saying yearlings wont rear well, just they may not over sit till 21 days.

King Billy is saying similar to my pm I sent

[steve]

remove the eggs of the stok birds as soon as it lays them put in shavings in the house then when the yearlings lay thare 2nd egg remove and put in the stok birds eggs then thay will hatch the same day as if it where thare own as long as thay have not bean incubated in any whay from the stok doos

 

billy is right in what he his saying

but remember to turn the eggs every day till you place under the feeders

 

 

[irish_mat]

Well today i slip 6 pairs of eggs all filled took from stock birds to yearlings and i have a few more to slip in the next few days so hopefully everything goes well as i was very late last year but sure it was my first time i learn alot thier are some yearlings i dont trust to rare my stock bird cause thier always running about mad but the yearlings im using now r fine so fingers cross.