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Culled her recently, she was coming up on about 14 months of age (its on one of the last pages off my thread, maybe 3 or 4 pages from the end?) and going thru a hard molt. In combination with the heat, the kindest, most efficient, thing seemed to cull her and make her into sausage (the last of...

much more color than I got out of the offspring of my dominant white girl (a CX, if you'd beleive it!) - all her kids were white with a little black leakage here and there. Looked more like spots on a dalmation than a pattern on a chicken.

Yes, its barnyard mixes I'm incubating (12 every three weeks) as well, with an end goal in mind, and "predator pressure" elping the process along, since I'm looking for a bird well suited to free range on my property, and property like it. My broodies, sadly, keep trying to brood golf balls...

Nope. That implies a deliberateness on my part regarding the pairings. I have a Culling Project, deliberately removing outcomes that don't fit my needs. Given my management of my birds, its impractical to try to confine and limit the breeding when I desire that they free range acres.

I usually offer a four week range of "typical" for start of lay - and yes, I'm guilty of the same, eagerly checking boxes multiple times a day to see when my project birds might be starting.

chickens explore the world with their beaks. not uncommon for them to check things out when you put down oyster shell, then deciding they don't need it, ignore it for a time. not an indication of start of lay at all. Start of Lay is like a strong suggestion, nothing to mark on a calendar...