last summer I would say the ones I have laid mostly large eggs. Far more consistent then they were during the winter. Now as it's warming up, they're all over the spectrum. Some smaller, some huge. Though up here is going to effect more that I would expect in Fl.
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Yes exactly heres a post that math ace sent me in a PM I posted last year this is what the hatcheries do for us to meet the demands of orders for Delaware looking birds we order from them.
Yes I'm stirring up a hornets nest I know but I will post some pics of my newest recruits from...
Well I guess I'm going to be on the hunt for other Dells.
btw.. Just so everyone knows. NONE of these chicks or chickens will leave my place alive.
It seems to me if people don't do this it's going to be an ongoing battle. Even if bred out in my/your flock. Who's to say that it isn't going to...
So someone correct me if I"m wrong here.
If green legs is sexlinked. passed on by the roo.
A does that mean I can get another roo that possibly doesn't have this trait?
or does it mean that my hens have it and are passing it on to all the chicks?
right now with that chicks I've hatched I'm...
The green legs in some "Dels" I do not believe to be sex linked. I have examples of both males and females with VERY green legs.
Let's just say I think I was sold a "bad batch of goods"... so needless to say.. that has set me back a year in getting into Delawares.
I've hatched out over 200...