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Old 17-02-2008, 08:26 PM
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Re: Can One Cock Tread A Variety Of Hens ???

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Originally Posted by eieio View Post
Hi all I'm new here . we have a trio of silver laced wyandots, and we would like to breed them., but also would like the gold laced hens, and maybe blue too, could our paxo( the silver laced ) tread these hens ? or do you have to have gold cock to gold hens, and blue cock to blue hens ,? even though they would all be same breed wyandots ?. we only have a small garden hence the room for only one cock ? .

thank you for any advise .
One cock can service upto 20 hens, if you want to breed pure bred poultry then you need to run a cock and two or three hens in seperate pens.

I used the breed gold, silver, white and red dorkings, auracanaers, roed island reds, wesummers, plus ducks and geese

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