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In my experience, whether it's cattle, sheep, or chickens, generally you can get high production /high maintenance, or low production/ low maintenance. It's very hard to get high production/low maintenance in any livestock whether it's meat,milk, or eggs. You can definitely tweak things in your...

This is kind of what I did. I took several heritage breeds , predominantly different colors of Plymouth rock, and a few others thrown in for genetic diversity. I don't baby them, and hatch some out from broodies. They are on about the third generation and have improved on a lot of the traits I'm...

Sounds similar to what I'm doing. I also wanted brown rose comb leghorns crossed with American game,but I couldn't find them. I ended up getting some games to cross on my barnyard mix of heritage breeds. I also got a wyandotte rooster for rose comb genes. If my egg production drops too much,I...