Pairing Up

[thompson sam]

How long would cocks and hens need to be parted for them to pair straight up together when put together in there boxes ?

[dal2]

How long would cocks and hens need to be parted for them to pair straight up together when put together in there boxes ?

Depends on them being partners before! put them in the closed box with half brick or such like and it wont take long

[thompson sam]

Ok, if they haven't been together long will it take a couple of days or something like that. Somebody's give me a few to have a go at breeding but I'm not sure if they've been parted or not. Somebody said the sexes need parting. Will they not go together if they haven't been parted ?

[walterboswell59]

m8 if you dont know if these birds have been paired together before and your not bothered which cocks are going with which hens just open the boxes and put the bowls in and leave them to it they will sort it out them selfs feed them some hemp seed for a week to help make them ramp but if its to cold they might not lay even if they pair you need a bit of luck with weather at this time of year or some heaters in the loft good luck with them

[dal2]

m8 if you dont know if these birds have been paired together before and your not bothered which cocks are going with which hens just open the boxes and put the bowls in and leave them to it they will sort it out them selfs feed them some hemp seed for a week to help make them ramp but if its to cold they might not lay even if they pair you need a bit of luck with weather at this time of year or some heaters in the loft good luck with them

Yip. Leave them alone if ye can until the spring, giving you time to split them now

[yeboah]

Yip. Leave them alone if ye can until the spring, giving you time to split them now

Just been doing a wee job at the fechan this morning it's already spring there

[dal2]

Just been doing a wee job at the fechan this morning it's already spring there

Aye right Mick. ffin baltic

[greenlands]

Haven't parted mine yet :emoticon-0138-thinking: :emoticon-0140-rofl: :emoticon-0138-thinking:

[Guest stb-]

Yip. Leave them alone if ye can until the spring, giving you time to split them now

I dont know how folk can pair up the now , its been hard frost hear for over a week and the last few days the walls inside the loft are white with frost and the drinkers like this every bloody day .the frost hasnt melted in the garden all week Ive had molasses and glycerin in water but its always solid in the morning

 

[greenlands]

Take the drinkers out at night Rab, makes life a lot easier and the birds drink very little this time of year.

[harry h]

I dont know how folk can pair up the now , its been hard frost hear for over a week and the last few days the walls inside the loft are white with frost and the drinkers like this every bloody day .the frost hasnt melted in the garden all week Ive had molasses and glycerin in water but its always solid in the morning

 

 

Rab your drinker look the same as mine,it helps a great deal if you put thick bubble rap round the cone and rap parcel tape all round it,then do the same with the bowl then you just cut out one of the holes in the bowl for them to drink from and sit it on a couple of nest felts, done this last year with mine,it worked up to about -14 before my drinkers started to freeze.

[Guest stb-]

Rab your drinker look the same as mine,it helps a great deal if you put thick bubble rap round the cone and rap parcel tape all round it,then do the same with the bowl then you just cut out one of the holes in the bowl for them to drink from and sit it on a couple of nest felts, done this last year with mine,it worked up to about -14 before my drinkers started to freeze.

Cheers Harry ill try that m8 ive been taking them down to the house and puting them under hot tap every day but they have frozen up quick . Was told the mollases the brown stuff stoped it freezing but didint work .

[andy Burgess]

Rab your drinker look the same as mine,it helps a great deal if you put thick bubble rap round the cone and rap parcel tape all round it,then do the same with the bowl then you just cut out one of the holes in the bowl for them to drink from and sit it on a couple of nest felts, done this last year with mine,it worked up to about -14 before my drinkers started to freeze.

good tip Harry , well done

[harry h]

Cheers Harry ill try that m8 ive been taking them down to the house and puting them under hot tap every day but they have frozen up quick . Was told the mollases the brown stuff stoped it freezing but didint work .

 

 

I've used mollases before no use,forgot to say if you can get a hold of some pingpong balls put some in the bowl aswell.

[walterboswell59]

I've used mollases before no use,forgot to say if you can get a hold of some pingpong balls put some in the bowl aswell.

it does not help but it gives them something to play with while there waiting on the ice to melt lol

[kirky]

i put wooly hats over my cone drinkers keeps frost off,

[dal2]

i put wooly hats over my cone drinkers keeps frost off,

I just get up and change the water????

[harry h]

i put wooly hats over my cone drinkers keeps frost off,

 

 

Kirky it's the north of Scotland were speaking about here -16 to -19 a wooly hat might help in Sunny Scarborough but wouldn't be much use up here mate,if they got the temperatures down there that we get the hole place would be at a stand-still. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

[geordie1234]

Kirky it's the north of Scotland were speaking about here -16 to -19 a wooly hat might help in Sunny Scarborough but wouldn't be much use up here mate,if they got the temperatures down there that we get the hole place would be at a stand-still. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

Exactly Harry nae wonder they sheep have big wooly jacket

[harry h]

I just get up and change the water????

 

I would do that aswell, but my loft is in a field 6 miles away from the house.

[dal2]

I would do that aswell, but my loft is in a field 6 miles away from the house.

Get up really early then Harry!!!LOl

[harry h]

Get up really early then Harry!!!LOl

 

I'm scared STIFF of the dark. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

[harry h]

it does not help but it gives them something to play with while there waiting on the ice to melt lol

 

 

Morning Walter, went down to feed the birds this morning and got a shock they were all looking

as if they had just flowing 500 miles,then it just hit me way they look so knackered,the feckers have been up all night playing table tennis. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

[walterboswell59]

Morning Walter, went down to feed the birds this morning and got a shock they were all looking

as if they had just flowing 500 miles,then it just hit me way they look so knackered,the feckers have been up all night plying table tennis. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

lol good one harry

[walterboswell59]

I'm scared STIFF of the dark. :emoticon-0140-rofl:

the dark cant hurt ye harry its whats hideing in it whooooo lol