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I'm resisting the temptation to start hatching really early, to keep the electric bill down. I'm pretty much starting over with marans, after not hatching my 'old' cuckoos for quite a few years. I have one old roo left, and one old hen who only laid sporadically last year. I have a small group...

I'm not saying I'll never care about them, but if I'm starting from a closed flock, given the choice of a large bird with a comb fault, or a small one with a good comb, I'd think it would make sense to select for size first. I'm probably more likely to eat my culls than sell them, so it may not...

My earliest hatches were marans, and they usually take longer to start laying then some other breeds. A couple of them started before the Solstice, and those are ones that I will keep and hatch for sure. A few others have started this week. Any that have not started by March will not have...

I try to do the same. My pullets are just starting to lay. A few of the ones hatched in early spring started laying in December. I think that there's going to be another round of culling (sorting, not butchering) around March. I do incubate, and like to hatch in early spring and again in late...