pairing up

[No 1]

How many posts do ou have on chat now ? Lol, or should I call it coranation street or perhaps eastenders !!!

[little sam]

Lmao, I dont keep a record ;D

[Babybird]

always put half of house brick in the nest box so the hen can stand

on it to get out of the way of the cock if he gets a bit to frisky .

 

An interesting tac tic, I am all for standing on a brick

[Guest Owen]

Babybird

you will need to take the advice to place a half brick of block of wood into the box so that the hen can escape from an overly aggressive cock, seriously. Some cocks become so territorial that they will attack any bird that goes into the box. Cock or hen. I find the yearlings the worst.

I have several widowhood cocks that are real thugs. They will attack me never mind another pigeon. I am sure that some of my cocks fly to their boxes as much as to the hens, so it is a good thing that they are like that.

Partly because I pair all the hens from each compartment to just one cock, I separate the pair by inserting a plastic widowhood front between the pair so that the cock can not tread the hen. This has the bonus of introducing the hen to the cock gradually. They do not have full contact until the hen lays. By then they are used to the hen and have paired to her, although they are not the biological fathers' to any young born.

My stock cocks are locked up with the hens. And I am very careful to provide the hens with the block of wood we mentioned earlier. Although they are a lot calmer than the racing cocks because they are all ex-racers and are therefore older and wiser.