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    Niederrheiner Thread! All Colors!

    Hm... as far as I know there is no trick, like with mammals the moment the sperm hits the ovum the sex is fixed. No sex shifting by heat or hormone, pheromone like with so many other animals. So lower/right temperatures may help you to an higher hatching rate but not to more females. I know that...
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    Niederrheiner Thread! All Colors!

    As far as I know Greenfire Farm is the only Company that imports European Breeds into North America and sells the birds to public. Given the import laws not an easy task. He only independent sources for chickens here in Europe are the Lifestock Preservation Society, Show Breeding Clubs and the...
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    Niederrheiner Thread! All Colors!

    The breeder club information says that the hen should have min. 2,5 kg so... 5.5 lbs but most are around 3 kg that would be 6.6 lbs. They were one of the first meat chickens breeds in a time when special feed mixes for meat birds were not availible. So they get fat very easy. Bielefelders can...
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    Niederrheiner Thread! All Colors!

    There is a blue cuckoo, too.
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    Niederrheiner Thread! All Colors!

    Okay.... now why I should listen to the old guys at the breeders club, when they go over the different historic cross-experiments and why the "old" breeders were artists and ......you know? The Niederrheiner was based on the Noord-Hollandse Blauwe; Coucou de Malines, Belgium Game (maybe...
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