Maybe what parts you ate growing up might have something to do with it? My parents always bought the whole chicken. They got the breast. I got the thighs, brother got the drumstick, and my sister loved the wings. I look at the wings as being a waste. I debone the cooked wings now and let the dog...
No, I let those go so that I could make room for the leghorns. I didn't want to mix the 2 breeds, and prefer working with one breed at a time. I've found that I'm mostly out for the egg's and not the meat. Meat is good, but I don't want to be sending them to freezer camp too frequently, and the...
They are good roosters. They are good to the hens, and the best thing was that I didn't have to worry about them attacking me in there. I have changed over to doing the non-white leghorns now though.
That's very true.
That is true also. There is no guarantee on shipped egg's hatching, especially when you don't know how the sender will be packing them, or how they will be treated in traveling to the destination.
I think that people that want those really high prices for the purebred hatching egg's are trying to make sure that people who buy them will want to keep breeding them pure. The thing is though, that if only 2 or 3 egg's hatch, people will add other breeds to them so that they have company. It...