When the birds are split up I remove all the nest box fronts. This makes it easier to clean the boxes well and also allows the young cocks to find boxes without getting beaten up if going in the wrong box and struggling to get out.
Today I put the fronts back in in preparation for pairing up in a week or so.
They very quickly started cooing and strutting around. Even the young cocks who hadn’t seen the fronts before.
I have got about 5 extra cocks and 7 extra hens that I haven’t got boxes for. These will go into one of the young bird sections for a while and can pair up in there if they want and can be moved back if boxes become available.
Back just enjoying club racing for the time being.
Buster121 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:59 am
All looking well mate, think I recognise a couple of them
Yes Steve. The blue pied second box from left on top row is one of yours. So is the chequer far right second row.
The blue pied that I have here of yours looks very similar to that one Steve she has just laid her first egg, she has paired to a cracking blue pied cock from our old club Secretary Roy Olliver so I will let them hatch.
Buster121 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:59 am
All looking well mate, think I recognise a couple of them
Yes Steve. The blue pied second box from left on top row is one of yours. So is the chequer far right second row.
The blue pied that I have here of yours looks very similar to that one Steve she has just laid her first egg, she has paired to a cracking blue pied cock from our old club Secretary Roy Olliver so I will let them hatch.
Trev wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:11 pm
Looking good Andy they certainly look ready to go
Have you sorted pairings or are you going to let them pair as they like ???
I am sorting the pairings out Trev. Last year I let them sort themselves out but I think they took longer that way than usual to go down. I also have some that I want to breed from and know if I let them sort themselves they will go back to their old mates that I don’t want to breed from.
Back just enjoying club racing for the time being.
Yes Steve. The blue pied second box from left on top row is one of yours. So is the chequer far right second row.
The blue pied that I have here of yours looks very similar to that one Steve she has just laid her first egg, she has paired to a cracking blue pied cock from our old club Secretary Roy Olliver so I will let them hatch.
Hope they do well for you mate
99.9% certain same parents, as what I did I gave you some same way bred as Andy's to see how they faired in different parts of the country
The blue pied that I have here of yours looks very similar to that one Steve she has just laid her first egg, she has paired to a cracking blue pied cock from our old club Secretary Roy Olliver so I will let them hatch.
Hope they do well for you mate
99.9% certain same parents, as what I did I gave you some same way bred as Andy's to see how they faired in different parts of the country
I'm just gutted that I lost the cock bird, he was a cracker.
they certainly look ready to go 
she has just laid her first egg, she has paired to a cracking blue pied cock from our old club Secretary Roy Olliver so I will let them hatch.