So I've been doing a lot of reading up and I really want to make an olive egger next year, but I want it to be autosexing. I've read up on the genetics and how to make it and saw something like this:
cream Legbar cockerel + cuckoo Marans
F1 barred cockerel + cuckoo Marans
F2 barred cockerel...
I am going to be buying lots of fertile eggs next January to April to hatch a new flock of laying hens, I have breeds in mind but would like to know how they perform, I don't particularly love brown hybrids who lay everyday but I'm wanting 4+ eggs from these, hopefully future pullets, a week...
After dealing with MG I culled all my hens. I want to start over but what's the best way of preventing this again? My vet said I can give a vaccination but this makes them carriers? I may want to breed a few chicks from mine once they're hatched and mature but I'm very worried they'd get sick...