Can I just add, this works great, but ONLY choose replacement roosters from the first 1/3 of the cockerels you removed. Some of the late-maturing group will end up huge and beautiful, but that puts late maturing genes in your flock.
This is the first cull. If I haven't marked a bird as a...
Ok, I'm seeing lots of bashing on hatchery birds and lots of cheering for breeders, but let me just throw this out there;
The breeder birds will be bigger, for sure, but when? The thing I've found is that show stock takes FOREVER to mature.
I am not feeding meat birds forever! I Do Not Care how...