BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

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I haven't had Faverolles, but my Bielefelders are exceptionally friendly and sometimes downright snuggly. My favorite cockerel is content to literally spend hours on my lap dozing while I pet him. The first of my Biel pullets just started laying at 24 weeks and laid a 1.41 ounce egg from the start. Not too bad in my opinion. She hatched from a jumbo 2.5 ounce egg.
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Thanks, that’s great to hear!! I’ll look into Bielefelders asap...
 
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Plymouth White Rocks. Docile, calm, quiet and regal..friendly but not too extremely nosy like BAs. Easy to work with, lay like a dream, forage well, stay heavy on comparatively small rations and lay for years. Sweet birds, sweet roosters, good breed all around.
 
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Plymouth White Rocks. Docile, calm, quiet and regal..friendly but not too extremely nosy like BAs. Easy to work with, lay like a dream, forage well, stay heavy on comparatively small rations and lay for years. Sweet birds, sweet roosters, good breed all around.
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This is so true! I have three PWR pullets that are just beautiful....not snuggly, but friendly and calm.
 
I thought I had a typo in my post and you were poking me in the rib about it. I went back and checked, but no typo ... so, to can stock ...

Like @dfr1973 mentioned your pressure canner should have instructions with times and everything but this is the way we do it.

Take any discarded bones ( carcasses ), season well with garlic, salt, pepper or any of your favorite seasonings, but go easy on the salt until you taste your final product ( Marjoram is an often overlooked spice that works very well in stocks ). Add vegetables such as onion, celery, bell pepper. Add water and boil until the water added is reduced by at least a third, better yet a half. Strain out the remaining liquid to remove any solids, and you can also pick the bones for any remaining meat. A lot of times I can pick off enough meat to fill a jar and can it along with the stock to use in chicken salad, gumbo, quesadillas, etc. Ladle this in jars, keeping about a 1/2 space at the top and make sure you wipe the top of your jars with vinegar. Vinegar will cut through the fat/oil that might spill on the jar's rim and prevent it from sealing. Place a ring and lid on the jar. For our altitude and it should be the same for yours, you would want to pressure can that stock for 20 minutes if you are using pints, or 25 minutes if you're using quarts. However, if you do can the chicken pickings with your stock you MUST can it the same amount of time that you would can meat which increases the time to 75 and 90 minutes respectfully. Beats store bought chicken/rabbit stock by a country mile.

SPECIAL NOTE: you can not water bath can stock or meat, you must pressure can it with a pressure cooker!!!
 
So here's the project!! Hoping for smaller size than Bielefelders but better egg production, we'll try to cross bielefelders and silkies. Both gentle, docile, hopefully we'll get a few of bantam size and we'll see what happens to egg production!
 
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