Going back to the age of the hens. with the exception of my grade project hens and my silver wheaton hens, all my breeding hens will be 2 years or older including asils.
i agree with what saladin said and culled a few this week myself. i do not agree with store bought chicken tasting better than mine. i would rather eat the chickens i raise here than some genetic frankenchicken with mush meat. that being said culling is not always killing. if i cull (sell) a few...
i like white legs on my cubalayas except for on the blacks and brown reds. those should be dark. my asils are white legged too. i had one white cubalaya pullet hatch this year with yellow legs and have a black cubalaya stag with yellow feet