Re: Neighbors dog got in my chickens

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:49:48 -0500, Gordie <gordy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> the rooster survived.  He seems to be doing fine.  I have 3 and I can't
>> even tell which one was chewed up.  The hen was not able to walk after
>> about 3 days I put her down as she didn't seem to be recovering. So now
>> I'm down to 20 hens and 3 roosters.  Contemplating taking 2 of the
>> roosters for dinner sometime soon.
>> 
>> 
>> Hal
>
>WOW, I have always tried to keep an 8:1 ratio of hens to roosters.

is that standard practice?  I'm new at this, of course, and I had
always heard you didn't want more than one rooster because they would
fight.  I don't have facilities to keep them separated yet, so was
planning on keeping only one but would keep all three if I thought
they would get along ok.

Hal