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I have had both the light and the dark blue legs. I have had a few who have ended up with blue legs and feet, but with some residual light color on the toes. I always process those.

I have had chicks hatched with a little more bluish tint to their legs, and some more yellowish. They all turned blue as they got older.

I love the Bresse too. They taste delicious, and I have had capons slips up to 4 1/2 pounds dressed. I am looking forward to dressing out some full capons this year. They are not aggressive, but the roosters can be quite protective of their hens especially when they are with them in a...

What I meant was half the chicks are Bresse and half are Marans. I didn't get a chance to cross the two this year....maybe next year. I am keeping back a Bresse rooster and about 10 pullets from which to get about 6 breeders. I will cross them back on their parents next year. I have some...

I've hatched out about 100 chicks, half Bresse and half Marans. All but about 12 breeders are being raised for meat. Any culled roos or mature slips will be deboned, ground and pressure canned. It makes great chicken chili, chicken salad, and even stir fry. The meat is very tender that way...

Do you think 100 will be enough??

It's pretty easily visualized in the 12 weeker. When you see the ovary, which has the cauliflowery look you will see a white strip down below it at the back running toward the tail, which is the oviduct. The thing you have to watch out for is the blood vessels that run with it, so a pair of...

Good luck with the caponizing, Linda. Just take your time.....did you see the pic of the oviduct I posted on the Caponizing thread?

My only thought was feeding them fermented grains and add milk or yogurt to it. Right now they are getting protein from foraging and grains in the evening, but it will drop significantly when I put them up for a few weeks before butchering. I was thinking the dairy would boost that a bit.

I haven't finished one out with grain and milk, but I have penned them. I had a couple of capon slips, and also a full capon last year from my starter flock. I processed the 2 slips at 22 weeks, and the full capon didn't get processed until he was about 11 months old. They were excellent...

Here is link on BYC and the French Standard.....but it doesn't say anything about references for the number: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/866299/french-standards-for-raising-bresse-meat-chickens

Bresse can be sexed early, because they get comb growth very early. The Chinese caponize at 4 weeks, and Bresse are pretty easily sexed at this age.

Has anybody read anything about the age that the French caponize their Bresse cockerels? I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that the French caponize their Bresse cockerels at 10 weeks of age. Well, I ended up caponizing a couple yesterday that were 10 weeks old. It wasn't intentional...

One is definitely a cockerel. The other one appears to have a bit less comb, but more than an 11 week old pullet. So, I would say 2 cockerels.

I sure am glad that I wasn't selling eggs. We had already decided that we were going to put up a piece of welded wire fence above the oak wall. At least that pen is a maternity ward now.....but the rooster roosts on the top of that wall, then crosses over to visit the ladies in waiting. They...

I'll say illicit......there wasn't supposed to be any testosterone in the adjoining pen. At least it wasn't my big fella.

@ronott1 I edited my post to show a photo.

Well, I had something happen yesterday that I've never had before. One of my Bresse eggs hatched out a chick with feathered legs! The legs were darker than the Bresse are at hatch too. They are in a breeding pen, but I did catch one of my hens in the adjoining pen with other hens and capons...

Cool....good to know and very interesting. I will keep an eye on my numbers to see if they even out..

Ron, in humans, the acidity/alkalinity of the vagina affect the propensity of the sex of offspring. Increased acidity is less hospitable for a Y chromosome, so I would assume that is what Linda is referring to.....that the acidity of the feed may translate to acidity in the reproductive tract...