Hens???

EPointer=Birdss

Well lads,

Anyone on here have proper hatched bantams or silkie hens that they would part with? Not incubator birds.

I would rather leave this in the huning forum as I want them for hatching pheasants next year...

Gortglas

When collecting our Pheasant Poults this year we bought Game and Japenese Bantams for said purpose. Got them from Wallslough, Kilkenny (0877749277 or 0567765363). He didnt have any silkies at the time though.

Dusty87

An old friend of mine used to breed them. Il give him a call tomorrow and see dose he stil do it. He bread them for showing though. Might charge a bit much as they be 'show birds', but il see anyways.

EPointer=Birdss

Sound lads.
I was going to put the post in the pets forum but though better of it for fear of antaganizing a few folkes!:D
I had 7 bantam hens released in the pheasant release run since they were born with the mother hen. They were my layers for the winter & my pheasant surragate mothers next year. On the Wed night I checked the run before the Sat I was taking them home & i realized they were swiped & only one & the mother was left! Some f****r took the drinker as well! if the drinker wasn't taken I would of thought they got out but whoever took them was so thick he took something worth a fiver which made it it obvious they were robbed! Thet were roosting in the shed so you'd catch em handy in the night. The other roosting hens we have are great to teach the pheasants to fly up at night!

Dusty87

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Sound lads.
I was going to put the post in the pets forum but though better of it for fear of antaganizing a few folkes!:D
I had 7 bantam hens released in the pheasant release run since they were born with the mother hen. They were my layers for the winter & my pheasant surragate mothers next year. On the Wed night I checked the run before the Sat I was taking them home & i realized they were swiped & only one & the mother was left! Some f****r took the drinker as well! if the drinker wasn't taken I would of thought they got out but whoever took them was so thick he took something worth a fiver which made it it obvious they were robbed! Thet were roosting in the shed so you'd catch em handy in the night. The other roosting hens we have are great to teach the pheasants to fly up at night!

Seriously? Feckers like that everywhere? Did you have a padlock? I suppose if they wanted to they'd get in anyways. Iv heard of people releasing them but takin the drinker aswel!

EPointer=Birdss

Dusty87 wrote: »

Seriously? Feckers like that everywhere? Did you have a padlock? I suppose if they wanted to they'd get in anyways. Iv heard of people releasing them but takin the drinker aswel!

No I didn't lock it as it's mesh fronted so a cheap snips would be easier than hammering off a lock & would cost me more money to fix & as you say if they wanna get in they will. I don't think they released them as they would still be around. I wreckon they stole them to have a few themselves etc so hence take the drinker also. Good birds too & last clutch we hatched out. All other hens were used for pheasants & they are ageing now plus we lost a few the previous year to a fox so numbers are down & we were trying to have loads of hens so the incubator would only be a last resort next year. We had one year were we didn't turn it on until the last few weeks & the birds were nearly all hen hatched & lads talk about birds! Wild & lost very few to predators as they all roosted form a few weeks old! Only left off 150 birds (Plus the wild ones of course) but 4 of us shot over 20 cocks each! I want to get back to that type of season so hence the request for a few hens. Nearly all the ones on done deal etc are incubator birds...