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A few generations in America, then we can't trace our family history very far, but in addition to the usual Northern European English with some (likely) German and (suspected) French [which all is largely the same, courtesy a few hundred years of the middle ages], we've also got a good bit of...

Our goats are mutts - like the rest of our livestock (and ourselves). Kinder would have been nice. These are probably a (pigmy or dwarf) something something something cross. Lots of Nigerian Dwarf around me, a decent number of Kiko, and Spanish, you never really know. Except there is no...

My record keeping sucks - other priorities, but my Lemonade project proceeds. I **DID** have to cull my Rooster, waiting on one of his boys to grow a little more and take his place. He's already showing the inclination, but the girls still have enough size that he rarely gets what he wants...

Yeah, NW FL. MI is a bit of a drive, or I'd happily take them off your hands. I've looked at the Online hatcheries - low availability unless I want chicks 5, 6 weeks from now, and larger order requirements this year. As I'm already at 8 ducks and 20 chicks, I'd not planned on adding another 10...

@rascal66 My DB are so small and (relatively) slow to grow compared the the NHR (and of course the Pekins - but I'm a first year flocker, and have no other references) I was starting to get worried they (impulse buy on chicks, I was getting whatever I could - this year has been mostly "out of...

@Ridgerunner Thank you, that's a huge help. I've bookmarked for future reference, as well as one of the chick "calculators" I ran across yesterday. I did ok w/ genetics in school and thereafter (we have some significant life-affecting sex linked and recessive genes in my own family), but its...

As I continue to read up on my plans (which for now mostly look like mixing the NH Reds and the Brahma, bringing in the Comets as a poor (but in hand) substitute for half the White Rock for the first generation) and look forward to future years of reinforcement and culling, I have lots of time...

Following - for long term. There's a few years left in me, barring accident, and I'm not planning on going anywhere. Considering a breeding program of my own, if only because I've just started my flock with what I could get at the local farm store (covid 19 essentially shut down all the local...