lister1 Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 this year we have gone for 30 ex layers, 20 poults of various strains and we are going to try 20 partridge ex layers to see how they get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covey Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 this year we have gone for 30 ex layers, 20 poults of various strains and we are going to try 20 partridge ex layers to see how they get on. will be interested to hear how you get on with partridges, have you mixed poults and ex-layers before we tried many years ago and did'nt work well at all, bullying hogging the feeders and we think the ex's brought in a microrganism which did no harm to them but killled a good number of poults. keep us posted how it goes Covey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lister1 Posted June 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 never had partridges before. we are going to seperate the poults and exlayers. our pen is a fenced off old orchard so we will just section it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crouch valley Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Good luck with the exlayers they normaly walk straight of the shoot :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmateX Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 (edited) Chap who buys 500 of my exlayers managed 46% return last season, the shoot next door being a wild one so work that out. :( Edited June 17, 2010 by AmateX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferretboy111 Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 The 46% will be because the habitat is awesome on that shoot. What strains have you gone for mate? I love my pheasant strains¬!! Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmateX Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 I stick with standard Chinese ring necks with a few melanistic for interest. The trouble is that what one man loves another hates with equal passion, along with all the old wives tales and that new or rediscovered breed that comes along every other year. The only thing I can say with any certainty is that the first hatch often produces the best birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferretboy111 Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 By standard Chinese ringnecks you mean French commons? Or actual Chinese ringnecks that have an amazing blue back and look very similar to manchurians minus a smaller neck ring? I've played and researched into the many strains trying to produce origins and traits recently to try and find some patterns- all interesting stuff. I agree with your last two statements regarding the first hatch being better birds and the many tales regarding strains. I think I'll put a post up too try and get peoples opinions on the strains they release to try and gather some more info for my study. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 we put 40 partridges down last season and only seen the 1 fly off, and that was that. So we are not going to bother this year just keeping to about 600 pheasies instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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