Chooks,
Thanks for taking the time to sketch out the blueprint. I'll be looking to put my black copper cock onto these girls in the coming weeks. I'll be shooting for a hatch by end of June/early July. I have to get current batch of birds out of brooder first. I'm hoping for at least three...
Yeah, for sure they're the English type and they need a ton of work, but they're very good layers of some nice big eggs. The eggs are a far cry from marans quality, but the birds flesh out very well by 14 weeks and the meat quality is awesome and tastey. As far as tails and all, yeah lots of...
Thought I'd join the thread since the chickens from the "barred rock" hatching eggs I purchased last year are actually cuckoo marans. Yeah, been scratching my head looking at these birds and saying, "no way that's even a poor example of a production hatchery barred rock". Factors finally pushing...