pinkfox
Super Self-Sufficient
kaboom, this is where your own record keeping comes in extra important as well as the extra time/effort involved in keeping track.
now if you breed everyone on the same day, your simply not going to know unless you mark your does and put cameras in all your nest boxes (or sit there all night for about a week watchign whos comming in and out...
sometimes youll get 2 or more does deciding to do a communal nest box ect...
but you could breed your buns a few days apart, means itll take longer to butcher if you want uniormity but at least youll know well Doe A was due to kindle last night and Doe B isnt due untill next monday so these are most likely Doe A.
if running a large scale production though this is definatly one of those points that has the "professional" meatproducers saying "it doesnt work" because it is much more difficult when your breeding some of the meat breeds to figue out who belongs to who.
(this is one of the reasons using a breed with colors might come in handier in a colony setting, as long as your good with genetics you can generally figure out who belongs where based on color.
another option is to seperate does out when due to kindle but then you still have to kep your cages handy/around.
in general colony does if given enough "houses" wil tend to pick a favorite box...this generally ends up being the house they kindle in...so knowing which doe prefers which box will also help.
getting good at palpation would also be of to a colony raisers benefit...
now if you breed everyone on the same day, your simply not going to know unless you mark your does and put cameras in all your nest boxes (or sit there all night for about a week watchign whos comming in and out...
sometimes youll get 2 or more does deciding to do a communal nest box ect...
but you could breed your buns a few days apart, means itll take longer to butcher if you want uniormity but at least youll know well Doe A was due to kindle last night and Doe B isnt due untill next monday so these are most likely Doe A.
if running a large scale production though this is definatly one of those points that has the "professional" meatproducers saying "it doesnt work" because it is much more difficult when your breeding some of the meat breeds to figue out who belongs to who.
(this is one of the reasons using a breed with colors might come in handier in a colony setting, as long as your good with genetics you can generally figure out who belongs where based on color.
another option is to seperate does out when due to kindle but then you still have to kep your cages handy/around.
in general colony does if given enough "houses" wil tend to pick a favorite box...this generally ends up being the house they kindle in...so knowing which doe prefers which box will also help.
getting good at palpation would also be of to a colony raisers benefit...
