cock advise
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Hen-Gen
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In the complete absence of hens cocks seem capable of living together in groups. However if hens are present, or nearby, then war breaks out. Though there are instances of two or three cocks living together with a large number of hens there is always tension between them which can, at any time, lead to violence. So the general advice would be only keep one cock per pen.
RichmondHens
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Agree with HG. And unless you wish to breed, why keep a cock at all? They eat a lot more than the hens do.
If you want to grow some on for meat then as HG says keep them well away from girls, out of sight and sound, and they will probably be ok together till 5 months or so. I've just fattened up 9 pekin cocks all living together and they have been really good, despite pekins having a bit of a reputation for fighting. And I have another 4 in a separate coop awaiting the chop as well, and they have not drawn blood between each other at all. Very laid back little chaps.
If you want to grow some on for meat then as HG says keep them well away from girls, out of sight and sound, and they will probably be ok together till 5 months or so. I've just fattened up 9 pekin cocks all living together and they have been really good, despite pekins having a bit of a reputation for fighting. And I have another 4 in a separate coop awaiting the chop as well, and they have not drawn blood between each other at all. Very laid back little chaps.
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If you are going to breed from your hens you should have at least two hens with each cockerel and I think it would be kinder to the hens to have a ratio of one cockerel to at least six hens.
I normally incubate up to a dozen eggs a year in the hope that I am able to replace a few of my older hens. At the moment I have a young Welsummer cockerel that I hatched from eggs bought on Ebay. He is 19 weeks old and running with 13 hens. As long as he does not disturb us in the night I intend to keep him until the spring and then incubate some of my own hen eggs. If, however, he gets noisy he will be in the pot and I will buy hatching eggs.
I take it that if you are planning to keep a number of cockerels you have no near neighbours.
I normally incubate up to a dozen eggs a year in the hope that I am able to replace a few of my older hens. At the moment I have a young Welsummer cockerel that I hatched from eggs bought on Ebay. He is 19 weeks old and running with 13 hens. As long as he does not disturb us in the night I intend to keep him until the spring and then incubate some of my own hen eggs. If, however, he gets noisy he will be in the pot and I will buy hatching eggs.
I take it that if you are planning to keep a number of cockerels you have no near neighbours.
Have a look at the threads about how to post photos in the Pictures of Chickens section http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewforum.php?f=27dye29 said:
Basically, you have to reduce the size of the photo file before trying to upload it. Probably the easiest way is to get an app which does this for you. I used to use one but it doesn't work any more. Maybe someone can suggest an app which would help both of us?
rick
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I've used several programs on several platforms to resize images.
For PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux) I usually use GIMP image editor - a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut (Its a Photoshop like clone - open source and free.)
On an android phone there are lots of image resizing programs to download for free - the one I used for a while was called, I think, 'Image re-sizer' They usually have adverts that you just ignore.
The built in image viewer on my Chromebook resizes images as as well.
The easiest size to go for/way to go about it that I have found is to crop the image 4:3 for landscape or 3:4 for portrait then resize to 640,480 pixels (landscape) or 480, 640 pixels (portrait). You can post 800, 600 on this forum but not 600, 800 as the max height is 700 so I just stick to 640, 480 both ways round as its easier to get right.
P.S. Its not really fair to call GIMP a clone - its a good tool in its own right and anything that does a similar job to Photoshop is bound to have a similar look and features.
For PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux) I usually use GIMP image editor - a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut (Its a Photoshop like clone - open source and free.)
On an android phone there are lots of image resizing programs to download for free - the one I used for a while was called, I think, 'Image re-sizer' They usually have adverts that you just ignore.
The built in image viewer on my Chromebook resizes images as as well.
The easiest size to go for/way to go about it that I have found is to crop the image 4:3 for landscape or 3:4 for portrait then resize to 640,480 pixels (landscape) or 480, 640 pixels (portrait). You can post 800, 600 on this forum but not 600, 800 as the max height is 700 so I just stick to 640, 480 both ways round as its easier to get right.
P.S. Its not really fair to call GIMP a clone - its a good tool in its own right and anything that does a similar job to Photoshop is bound to have a similar look and features.
rick
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dinosaw said:
That's the trouble with GNU software - its all gnomes and penguins and anything else that the community developers find amusing by being what would be commercial suicide!
Any ideas for an app that works well on a MacBook or iPad?
