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Where do you find good DPs then? Are there still any good strains of the NH or PR?

Quote: Thanks! With my next to zero know-how, simple is gonna be as good as it gets!

So if I was to play around with breeding, it may be better to start with a breed/breeds that are established rather than throwing in hybrids like the FR because there would be less variation. Or does it matter, as long as I consistantly cull the birds that don't preform? I am wondering now, if...

So... I am thinking then that any new breed in the process of being developed would go through a period of having hybrids that have the potential, when bred to one another, of losing those traits for which it is being selected for. What then, is the stablizing factor that leads to being able...

Quote: I will keep in touch with this board. I think I will likely keep a few of the one I have now so we could exchange hatching eggs in the future? It will be a few months before I would get any I have some New hampshire reds and white rocks that I will probably try crossing with the rangers...

slc~ thanks for the info. I think you are right, I don't see why, while variables are being worked out, this would bother a home producer, because what's not fit for selling to friends/fam is certianly fine for the owner to make stew from. I might have to check this idea out further, and buy...

Mike~ you know...if a few or several people were into this, we could exchange birds to keep inbreeding down. Who mentioned adding in a heritage breed to the experimentle flock? Would you do this to add some size stabilization in future generations?

So this kind of makes me wonder, with the rangers, if you were to breed them, and then just take the biggest from the second gen. and breed them, and so on and so forth, you may, eventually end up with a consistantly large bird. Maybe keep two different parent flocks, to help with inbreeding...

You all have such great info. Thanks!! Keep it coming if you want, I am taking notes Yes, I would like a bird that breeds true, I don't want to have to buy babies everytime I want to start meat birds. I do have interest in a lot of the heritage breeds, so I think I will have to experiment...

Does it even exist? LOL. Any ideas for breeds to try would be helpful. Doing reasearch now for possible summer project. Thanks