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Personally I would pen the best cornish X roo with some of your largest fastest growing DP hens and observe him to see if he is doing the job. You could also check the hens egg yolks for fertility but if they have been running with other roos you would have to wait at least 2 weeks to see if...

Excellent post. It always annoys me trying to find out the laying ability of hens on the auction website here because no one bothers to count the eggs from their hens. It really isn't difficult to figure out the destinctive look of each egg as they are all slightly different even from the same...

Heritage breeds are more tasty because they will eat their pellets/grain and then go off and eat grass bugs etc in a freerange situation, where as cornish x's will hang out next to the feeder and won't stray far. If you run heritage and cornish x's togeather and feed them twice a day the...

I am from New Zealand and we cant get delawares. Im going to go with langshan over barred rock for a black sexlink that should lay really well and have good cockerals with a bit of breast meat. Heres some trials involving langshan crosses from 1884...

I aquired a langshan last spring, and didnt bother breeding with her for a while as I only had a rhode island red rooster. However, she was a good layer often laying 13 eggs in a row, so I incubated a few eggs. Two cockerals hatched. Its interesting that they are known as slow growers, as the...

Hi. I am looking to breed some black sex links the season after next. (I live in the southern hemisphere). First I need to breed up some barred hens as I only have one mature one at the moment. My very good barred rock hen Elvis has produced a lot of 'black stars' for me already when crossed...