People do sell roosters. The problem with roosters, is that their faults can show up a lot later than most people buy and sell. I have 6 month old roosters that look fantastic, that doesnt mean that some mulberry wont show up closer to a year. If you are willing to spent over $300-400...
I was under the impression that with this breed being a landrace and that the fm is a duplication event mutation, that it is reasonably complicated to get a perfect bird (outside of Indonesia anyway). I need to do more research, but can the leakage be the lack of other modifiers? I think I...
Does anyone breed from a very dark rooster that has leakage? And how much leakage would you breed from? I have heard from a few people that leakage is easy to breed out--can anyone tell me why? I think the leakage is from a gene not part of the fm duplication?
What about the "opals"--dark...
Thanks Pyxis--That was very soon after hatching. My first thought was ---that chick has a great survival instinct! We are having some hatch with white toe tips and we were disappointed (of course our fantasy was pure black all the time!). But we looked back at the pictures of the mothers when...
My daughter and I have just started to breed these birds. She fell completely in love with them so I bought her some hatching eggs for her birthday last year. We were a little surprised at what we hatched and quickly started studying the breed more closely. We hatched chicks with some amount...