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Over last spring I had a problem with egg eating. It started with an occasional egg and quickly progressed to all the eggs. I believe it was stress induced by a bully cockerel I had with the girls at the time. For some reason he didn't like any of the black hens, which was more than half of...

The hatchery Orpingtons and Rocks that I've raised dressed out at around 2 - 2.5lbs for pullets and 3-3.5lbs for cockerels at 16 weeks. Very few of them ever even came close to reaching the standard weights advertised by the hatcheries. Also, in my experience, the hatchery dual purpose breeds...

I totally agree with this. I've ordered multiple different dual purpose breeds and they are all basically the same, much smaller than advertised, but good egg layers. You will get some individuals that come closer to the standard and you could select those to move forward with. But it wasn't...

Just about any hatchery dual purpose breed crossed with any colored broiler is going to give you a pretty meaty bird that lays a fair amount of eggs. In my experience, despite the various descriptions, most of the hatchery DP breeds are actually very much alike, they mostly just have different...