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Thanks for the welcome, Wisher1000 & Crickett. I did have potential breeding in mind when I decided that a single breed (vs. a mixed flock) was the way to go for me. A coworker of mine always incubates and hatches about 12 eggs in the Spring as part of a science unit (with kids... at a school) and has lately been getting mixed but fertilized eggs from mixed flocks, since that's what most backyard chicken keepers (owners? *masters*?) seem to do around here. It seems to me that it would be better to go with a single breed -- whatever that might be -- so that you could say that this is a particular type of chicken when trying to get rid of them (which she magically always manages to do). But the more I read, the more it sounds like I'd need a whole lot of chickens, that are unrelated and from different sources, and that I'd need to do a lot of culling and picking and choosing and sorting out of these chickens from those chickens. I don't think I'm to the "working on the breed" stage just yet, but I might sell or barter or give away some fertilized eggs just to get more Hamburgs out there. I did do a lot of reading before picking a breed, and I do think that they are particularly delightful.