Bull Box

[kraftykev]

If anyone one knows of a cheap bull box for sale can they let me know im will to travel about 100 miles radius of wisbech in cambridgeshire pe135bp

 

cheers

 

kev

[OLDYELLOW]

you dont need 1 if you have the time to use it you can do it without it

[Guest Owen]

You do not need a Bull Box to use the Bull system. You need widowhood boxes with a partition to separate the sexes. Your Widowhood Cocks can rear the young of your Bull Cock for you. Put the Bull into a parting on his own and keep him alone for about one week. At the same time place a Cock and Hen into the Widowhood box with a partition beteen them and they will pair through the bars. After about a week put a nest bowl into the hens side near the partition. Then you drop the hen into the Bull Cock for about 10/20 minutes twice each day. The Bull will tread her. I use up to 10 hens in this way. When the hen lays her first egg you remove the partition and allow the Widowhood Cock to join the Hen and he will take to the eggs as if they are his own.

The hens will take a bit longer to lay than is normal because obviously the Cock can not drive her but she will lay and the pair will act normally in every other way. The big advantage is that you will be breeding from the best Cocks you have and the young will all be roughly the same age. You will also see that some hens will not give you the best of youngsters while others will not. Often the hens that gave you poor young with your Bull will give you much better young with a differant Cock.

When the Bull has served all the hens, I save a special hen for him to go to nest with in the normal way.

When I have used the Bull System, which has been every year for some years now, I have never had an empty egg. All have been fertile.

[steven65]

hi how many hens aday do you put to the cock this way atb steve

[demolition man]

bump

[Fly_caster]

Read this link and see if this helps...............

 

 

http://www.pigeonnetwork.com/articles/NigelCowood.html

 

 

Cheers,

 

 

Steve

[Guest geordiejen]

interesting system,so let me get this right.each breeding section has a cock and a hen with a divider.is there a nestpan in the hens section?each hen is lifted from her pen and put into the bull cocks pen.is there a nestpan in the bull cocks treading pen?how long does each hen get with this cock?is it watched to see if the cock treads it once or twice.then how long is the cock left alone in his pen before he gets another hen?does the hens need treaded every day until she lays?10 or 12 hens seems a lot for one cock to handle,does the bull cock need anything to help him keep lead in his pencil?lol