rooster selection

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    Breeding, culling and weights, can someone help me please?

    I'm planning on breeding my own dual purpose flock with some very specific goals and need some help from some of you experienced chicken BREEDERS who have culled and bred chickens for a while. I'm going to copy and paste what I posted on another thread to show you what I'm aiming for but my...
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    Ameraucana Roo Choice Help Please!

    I have 10 week old Ameraucana chicks and a couple existing blue hens, and can now sex 100%. So trying to decide which Roo(s) to keep for next springs breeding. I have the following pullets… blue, splash, wheaten and blue wheaten. I have 4 cockerels… 1 black(so far no leakage, but could change)...
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    Breeds, winter hardy, egg production

    We are planning to have 10 chickens plus 1 rooster. Winter hardy and heavy egg layers. So far we are considering 2-3 each of these: - barred rock - australorp - Orpington (color?) - Wyandotte (color?) - Rhode Island Red Which rooster out of these breed would be a good choice? Any input/comment...
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