All my crazy projet ideas!

[Yard Farmer]

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[Yard Farmer]

I've been thinking, and kinda wanted to get y'alls opinion:

I know that I have some pretty decent birds and I'm going to work them this year, but I was thinking - Only keep the very best breeders, keep the very best offspring, and sell my "Okay" breeders and use that money to buy even higher quality breeders that I can keep paired up, of cross into my current birds.
Think that'd be a good idea, of so I just try to better my current birds?

I'm kinda torn on the idea, honestly. I'd like to ship in much better birds than I already have, but at the same time I also want to improve all my birds so when someone buys my stock, it's "My" stock. You know?

Let me know your ideas below.

 

[The Birb King]

I've been thinking, and kinda wanted to get y'alls opinion:

I know that I have some pretty decent birds and I'm going to work them this year, but I was thinking - Only keep the very best breeders, keep the very best offspring, and sell my "Okay" breeders and use that money to buy even higher quality breeders that I can keep paired up, of cross into my current birds.
Think that'd be a good idea, of so I just try to better my current birds?

I'm kinda torn on the idea, honestly. I'd like to ship in much better birds than I already have, but at the same time I also want to improve all my birds so when someone buys my stock, it's "My" stock. You know?

Let me know your ideas below.

Idk man it's up to you. It's a good idea to keep selling some if you keep hatching more every year. Do you show them or just sell them?

 

[Yard Farmer]

Idk man it's up to you. It's a good idea to keep selling some if you keep hatching more every year. Do you show them or just sell them?

Yeah, I'm just unsure. Because I know I can make some really nice show birds with what I have now, but if I developed the birds quality wise, that would increase their price a bit more.

I'm planning/wanting to do both. I really want to show, I may at the UFPA spring show.
I need to get 2 more incubators so I can hatch everything I get this year - which, should help me make more chicks which I can sell for more money. Therefore, making my birds more sufficient, and quite possibly giving me the opportunity to use that money to get better birds.

Sorry, kinda thinking "out-loud" here.

 

[Yard Farmer]

Idk man it's up to you. It's a good idea to keep selling some if you keep hatching more every year. Do you show them or just sell them?

You know, I'll probably do both things I said. I think doing both will give me exactly what I want. Just keeping/breeding/raising/selling really quality birds.

 

[Amer]

When I started improving the quality of my d'Anvers and the fertility went down I did an outcross, so maybe you could try something like that?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

I agree with @Amer and you @Yard Farmer. I think I’d do both sell the ok ones so that then you could get better quality and out cross your line. U could also pair your ok ones the first part of breeding season then sell them, that’s what you’d produce some birds that would be better than their parents you sold.

 

[Yard Farmer]

When I started improving the quality of my d'Anvers and the fertility went down I did an outcross, so maybe you could try something like that?

Yes! I bought a bunch of outside line birds this past year to improve my birds.
I think with my BB reds alone I have....roughly 8 different lines to work with now.

So I suppose I already did a pretty big outcross. Haha!

I don't know how long you've followed my thread, Amer, but I was breeding 2 trios of BB reds all last year from a friend of mine that was extremely inbred. So inbred that I didn't get one chicks off his line.
I kept the best hen he gave me, so I'm crossing her to my Danny Jay Moore BB red, out of Blue red cock I have.
I think that will give enough genetic diversity to that bloodline - from my friend.

 

[Yard Farmer]

I agree with @Amer and you @Yard Farmer. I think I’d do both sell the ok ones so that then you could get better quality and out cross your line. U could also pair your ok ones the first part of breeding season then sell them, that’s what you’d produce some birds that would be better than their parents you sold.

Fantastic! I think that's what I'll do then.
Because I really want to try to make some really nice show birds this year. Bring in some well known show lines and work those specifically, so I only have quality birds coming in and out.

 

[Yard Farmer]

Hope everyone has been well. It's been a while since I updated here, or posted pictures - shoot, even a YouTube video. Lol
Life has been busy, but I'll have lot's of updates coming soon.