imacowgirl2
Songster
How late do you consider very late? I had at least one crowing at 15 weeks. Not sure when the second one started crowing asI didn’t make note of it. I do agree with you though that the hens are late egg layers — of my 3, only 1 or 2 are laying, and they are 28ish weeks now.Not sure what your New Hampshire are but they don't sound like Henry Noll...Cockerels are VERY late to crow and have a deep gutteral crow sound. The hens are always 24+ weeks.
I’m working on selecting for meat in my birds as well…do you happen to have any resources you know of that would help me learn how to best select, other than weight at processing age?
I was VERY happy with my first batch of these birds, processed at 13.5 weeks and they were 7-9 lbs live weight, and that was with not being fed a meat bird feed, just regular all flock.