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Cute! I bet you can get the stay command working, but I can't wait to see sit!

Good Question.....I know 4 breeders who wing band. 2 have had bad experiences with infection and the cocks outgrowing the bands. 2 have had no trouble at all with them. I need to investigate it further. I know legbands are very easy to let get too tight and cause distress and injury, so its not...

I know I am a week behind on this topic, but I finally got caught up. I have been toe punching for a little over 2 years, but I still have trouble with them growing back. I have used the small manual ones. I have used the larger nail clipper style . On the advice of an Orpington breeder I used...

Found out how many it let me post - Here are the other 2 cockerels

Well, took me a week post culling the cockerals last Wednesday to get the pictures sorted and posted on here. I had 15 of one line and 12 of the other line to choose from. Only really found 2 that stood out as outstanding. (compared to the others) I'm keeping 4 though, including one sorry...

I'm scheduled for the pullets next weigh in and band check tonight. I will give them all a feel and see what I discover. Thanks!

I will post pictures as soon as I can, I still have all 27 boys, I plan to whittle that down to 4 boys to keep and evaluate them for a final time when the females are ready to be evaluated around 8 months (or after most start laying, whenever that may be). So I will post their pics when I chose...

Well this is very poor timing with Fred's Hens recent post. I have not read every page of this thread but I have read the last 500 pages,and am now working forward from the beginning, 100 pages in so far. I have 54 young birds that I purchased from 2 different sources, so I plan on setting up a...

I purchased hatching eggs at a local poultry show this spring from a SCRIR breeder in Wilmington, NC. Chicks hatched well, and now are getting their feathers in. (sorry for the bad picture) I had no reason to doubt that they wouldn't be the quality of bird I was hoping for, but I sure felt...

I got them through the Sustainable Poultry Network. As far as I know the breeder hasn't done any showing, so probably not a household name :-). I spend hours out there with them, I really enjoy them, they are so much more grand that my mixed hatchery flock. Every one of my birds weighed more at...

This is my first ever post on Backyard Chickens so I am not sure if this is quite the right way to do it. Will see! I am just starting up my breeding program with Black Australorps. My chicks were born in Feb, so I am just now approaching the 18 week mark. I did an initial culling in late May of...