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James95, a lot will depend on what breed of fowl you are keeping, and also whether the pens are for multi-purpose use or more specific, ie cock pens or breeding pens. Asian fowl don't need high perches. They can't get up high, and they can damage themselves if they have to drop any height over a couple of feet or so. Oxford and American fowl like to get up high, and high perches help keep the birds fit and active. If they can see other birds from the perch, the cocks will fly up and down a lot. I have just built some new pens in a barn for my newly acquired Oxford fowl. (I wasn't g
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This was a full sister to them. Not the best pic, as her crop was full and she was a bit flighty that day. I had six of them and they all looked more alike.
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Now these are a totally different thing altogether. Believe it or not, these birds are all full brothers out of one hatch. They were about six months old then. The cock was an American game grey, described as a Red Fox Grey when I got him, and their mother was a whitehackle light red partridge hen. These were a first cross and so they were all quite different. Had I managed to keep them I would have worked away with them untill I got them all looking one way or another. Notice their different leg colouring as well as their feathering. They had plenty of substance though.
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Thanks. Unfortunately I lost all my birds through a combination of four and two legged vermin. It broke my heart. I now live in a more secure place, so I'm hoping to start again. I should have some birds by around June month if all goes to plan. It does take a long time to create a new strain of birds. The brown reds took about five years and hundreds of hatchings to get to the stage where they were all coming alike. The standard brown breasted red can be produced fairly easily by using a ginger cock over light red partridge hens. That should produce a pullet very similar to the
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And just for balance...A pair of young gypsy-faced brown reds, Brother and sister. I bred these by using ginger over partridge light reds, then a black hen into that, and in and in for a few generations.
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This bird is a half brother to the above, by the same ginger cock but out of a pile hen.
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Sorry about the quality and size of the pic. The gingers which were used to breed these birds had very dark eyes, but the dun birds used on the other side had red eyes. Good gingers should have almost black eyes.
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I'll have a look and see if I can find some pics of the gingers I had a while back . I lost loads of pics on an old computer. Now I put everything on photobucket. Meanwhile, here is one of some ginger duns I bred.
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Cracker.
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They look like the business.
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It's over two days, 17th and 18th January, and is at Lanark.
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Is anyone going? I'd like to purchase a nice trio of Oxford fowl, and wondered if anyone would be able to meet me at the show with birds. PM if it's possible. Thanks
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I just got eight pairs of West of England tumblers the other day, from a man who was giving up due to bad health. They are smart looking, but I'll have to wait a while till I see how they'll fly.
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Thanks guys. Wildman, it might be easier to tell you what I'm not into. I used to do a lot of mooching about with shotgun, terriers, running dogs, snares, nets, and all the usual stuff. Started out a 'keeper, ended up a poacher. I'm into my ponies and gamefowl and collie dogs now, but don't seem to have much time to hunt so much these days. I just enjoy watching the wonders of nature now. I was working on a place today, erecting an electric fence, and the skies were full of geese all day. They were feeding on stubbles , and spent the day lifting off and flying over me and d
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I thought I'd submitted a post on this thread and was waiting for approval, but it hasn't appeared. If I was starting with two birds and wanted to establish a line of 'peas-in-a-pod' poultry, I would take the best stag from the first hatch and put him over his dam, and I'd use the original broodcock over the best of his pullets, single mated so that I could know the breeding of each chick and mark and record it accordingly. Any birds which did not meet the strict desirable criteria would be culled. Not given away, to come back and bite me in the arse later on, or kept separate as a bac
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I registered some time ago but forgot for a while. I forget more than I remember these days. As much as I hate introductions, I thought I should say something. I am getting on a wee bit, have done a bit of this and that in terms of chasing and trapping and outwitting, and like this forum. I'll chuck my tuppence in now and again but I'm not looking for any trouble, ye understand. Thanks.
