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Quote: Young birds just starting to lay or those just kicking in after taking the winter off will have smaller eggs.

Yes I'm stirring up a hornets nest I know but I will post some pics of my newest recruits from Ideal hatchery here shortly if my photobucket acct. will cooperate. I just had to purchase some to see if they were doing anything different than normal and nope they are still just breeding for...

Once I can get rid of the screaming migraine it just may make sense to me.

Genes such as Extended Black & Birchen do put black pigment into the shanks, but these genes should not be present in Delawares. If anyone has been crossing in Barred Rock, these are Extended Black based. Might be me tonight, but for some reason this doesn't look right. In one sentence you...

Quote: What you said here is no different than you would see with a group of long term pro breeders. Ask 10 of them how they would approach a problem and get ten different answers. You are correct, no approach is wrong, just different from the way some others would do it. Just like no bird is...

Absolutely no offense taking. I was hoping to get some feed back going. I think the only way we will get better birds is if we put some THICKER skin on and listen and learn! This happens to be one of the best statements I have seen on a breeder thread in some time. And just like everyone else...

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