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Greetings, Saladin! Do you know a bit of the protocol for an import hatchery. Would you happen to have a link for me?

The RC's will do fine where you are. It's about selection. You actually have to start working with them. You need to cull for hardiness for five generations and then see what's going on. You'll find them much more adapted to where you're at. Too much time is wasted on thinking about...

Your RC Leghorns will do fine, you just have to breed them. In scenarios like this, it's not good to talk about breeds, you need to talk about strains. If you're serious about working with a breed, you need to maintain a good number of them, and then make winter hardiness a strong point of...

Well, at the end of the day it should be "mille fleurs"...ah the silly trivia....

The penciled are bust, though. One cannot breed SOP males and females from the same mating. They are, indeed, different varieties.

And we need to remember that we need gene POOLS and not gene PUDDLES. We needs folks to maintain a breed and to have other folks join on and sign up. We need multiple breeders working in concert. There is nothing like vim and vigor, type and symmetry, and some good old-fashioned weight. All...

Saladin, you should have seen Cark Brantley's BBR Aseel cockerel at the Ohio National--head-turning, outstanding--champion large fowl.

You have to be careful with temperament. "Bad temperament" can often emerge from inappropriate husbandry. There's a learning curve for everyone, and everyone at some point does something that makes their birds crazy. However, with practice one comes to recognize the screamers. You might be...

Oh, I agree. Before I even start weighing a batch, I look at them for unacceptable traits. Don't even put them in your realm of temptation. Just eat 'em.

It's pretty good, pretty consistent. I have not been emphasizing it as I used to. I realized that type needed to come first or it would never come at all. With type getting fixed I'm fixing a rhythm to start emphasizing production. They're certainly homestead ready now, but like all things...

Flitter, have you considered raising them to 8 weeks and the weighing and keeping the top 10% at that point, and just keep hatching and culling at 8 weeks for weight?

Even more so now, when she's a bit more mature. She's fantastic; she actually makes me laugh out loud. I think that white egg layers have suffered from the reputation that circulates about their flightiness, which is greatly exaggerated. I sit with these birds to observe them and pick them up...

Her she is again beside a Dorking pullet. Jim Adkins and Don Nelson (left to right (I'm behind)) are friends and APA judges who came over for a chicken soiree a week ago. We had a lot of fun going through one of the pullet pens.

Here's a pic of one of our RC Ancona pullets at 5 mo. Now, at 6 1/2 she's breath taking. The Anconas have made some serious strides forward this year.

Greetings! My intention was to imply more that one's isn't necessarily going to find the top of what one desires, but rather if one gets the good building blocks, one begins from there.

In my opinion, it's best to consider yourself as beginning afresh with these breeds. The important question is whether or not their Standard requirements for type support powerful laying. The traditional, long-tailed Mediterranean and Continental breeds are built to lay: Lakenvelders...

Saladin, what's going on with your BR OEGs?

Redcaps are also in desperate need of a few serious breeders. I don't know of a single breeder of Redcaps in the country. But, uhhh, what list are we referencing?

Exactly.

Thank you for the situation definition!