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Is anyone who was breeding this line still active on here? If so drop a line or two in this thread. Some eye candy photos would be great too.

No, #'s are dressed weight. 1951 # is for Delaware not hybrid. We all know hatchery birds don't conform to standard. Bred for egg laying which changes body conformation. Even with that hatchery stock obtained 3.5 lbs dressed in 12 weeks. There must be a standard bred strain that can beat that...

This is study Finnfur posted earlier: http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/10/25/japr.2013-00843.full University study, done with hatchery stock Delaware. If you read down the page in study you'll see 1.665 Kg BW (butcher weight) at 12 weeks for these birds and compared to 1.81...

Fin and Fur, the numbers are straight from the study link you posted earlier. Through that link I read another study done in 2002 where the slow growth genotype (does not specify breed) had males obtain 3.5 lbs dress weight in 81 days, 11.5 weeks. This was using 20% starter, 18% grower and 15%...

Finnfur- your attached study has reference note to 1951 print and average dressed weight of 1.81 Kg at 12 weeks compared to the modern Deleware used in this study that dressed to 1.665 Kg in 12 weeks. The point being genetics of fast maturing have not been maintained since the 50's. There is...

Is slow growth in males common for this line? I read on last page someone said the cockerels take two months longer than pullets, think that's for evaluating breeders but for growth the Deleware should be early to mature. Is this not the case in this Line? Anyone have live weights at different...