Just keep working with them & you can get them there ! It takes a lot of work but it can be done, cull very very hard & only keep the best of the best as your breeders.
Sill,
I just set a small batch of eggs from two pens that are all young hens with my (2) remaining roo's from 2012. Doing a small test batch to check their fertility as they are old & my last remaining birds from my original stock. Last year their fertility was still good the issues were with...
Exelcent post FD !! All I can say is that mine are as still as pure as I received them from you & TD, I've never crossed any others into the line here even though I was sent a number of different lines for free from JMF & a few others. I ended up culling all the others & sticking with the...
A few of tonight's Tatanka eggs, again we have a couple of large egg layers & those that are the desirable hatching size eggs. Setting an early spring test batch of 67 here this evening. Again I have no birds or hatching eggs for sale at this time as this a continuation of a project that I...
Some of my Tatanka eggs collected today, we have some big egg layers in this past winters hatch. Undesirable for hatching due to their large size but highly desirable for pickling & eating eggs (7eggs @ 153 grams = 21.85 average). Then we the desired egg size for hatching (14 eggs @ 218 grams =...
Here's a couple of bowls of Tatanka eggs collected this past week, all from this winters hatching's. Girls are laying good. Will be pairing up birds soon for a spring hatch.
Let's see what else we've had recently
Nice camo color here as well, ya know there's only a few that still care about this line of birds & are still working with them nowadays & I'm one of them ! Oh BTW ya'll boys ask your LA buddy how them Tatanka's he received from Juan Paco in the...
Nice white bird ! I was out looking at my Tatanka's that iv'e hatched so far this year & looking at the 11/26 hatch I see that we have one hen that has a few white feathers on her wing. A rare occurrence you don't see often with the Tatanka line & a bird which we will be keeping a close eye on...
Also weighed the batch that was hatched on 12/29/14 making them 9 days old yesterday (11-Browns/7-White), looking for 84+ @ 14 days. Photos to follow
60,55,70,53,63,63,73,55,60,62,62,68W,65W,66W,56W,55W,49W,54W
Next batch to lock-down this evening, trying to get my breeder pens filled this...
Weighed the birds hatched on 12/18/14 last night making them 20 days old (15-Browns/4-White). Looking for 130+ @ 21 days old, photos to follow later.
149F,155M,147F,157F,140F,120F,155M,131M,143W,153F,146M,153M,140F,117F,156M,140F,166W,147W
Here's the weights on the 12/6/14 hatch which makes them 21 days old yesterday. At 21 days we are looking for 130+g's. These were also moved outdoors yesterday.
Weights: 165F,142F,149F,119F,160F,162F,147M,132M,153M,129M,160M,150W,171W...