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Quote: From a 4/19 hatch... you should definitely be getting some crowing by now. I didn't make a note of when mine first crowed but I had males trying to mate with females at 10 weeks of age (July 12). Maybe you have lucked out so to speak, and gotten all females? If you have any cockerels...

Quote: I guess I'm coming at this from a conservation - genetics point of view, rather than strict utility... I would like to stick with the genes that are already in the Houdan and not dilute the breed any further or introduce new, unquantifiable gene combinations. As for those weights...

I would be cautious about crossing to other breeds... the fifth toe of the Houdan is not positive evidence of a cross to the Dorking in the past, rather, it suggests that the two breeds share some ancestry sometime in the last couple thousand years (if we are to accept that the Dorking is...

Quote: Hi, glad to see this topic active! The American V-comb variety was supposedly selected from small-combed sports of the leaf or antler comb variety... the original American standard of 1875 required a leaf comb. The story of the change over to a V-comb in the 1880s is given by C.E...