I don't have enough experience with this to know so this may be a dumb question but I had this thought and I couldn't find the answer.
Will the size of the mating rooster have any influence on the size of the egg being produced by a current laying pullet? For instance, a LF pullet who has been laying a medium size egg, will she continue to lay medium size eggs even if she starts being mated by a bantam size rooster? Or will she start to produce smaller eggs?
I ask this because I had determined to get rid of excess roosters and suddenly it occurred to me that if I keep only the silkie rooster I might only get silkie size eggs from my layers, and that won't do.
Edited to say I tried different verbage for the sentence in the search feature and got the answer that the rooster will only matter for the next generation and the pullet will lay the size eggs she was already laying. I love this new search, it's so much more user friendly!
Will the size of the mating rooster have any influence on the size of the egg being produced by a current laying pullet? For instance, a LF pullet who has been laying a medium size egg, will she continue to lay medium size eggs even if she starts being mated by a bantam size rooster? Or will she start to produce smaller eggs?
I ask this because I had determined to get rid of excess roosters and suddenly it occurred to me that if I keep only the silkie rooster I might only get silkie size eggs from my layers, and that won't do.
Edited to say I tried different verbage for the sentence in the search feature and got the answer that the rooster will only matter for the next generation and the pullet will lay the size eggs she was already laying. I love this new search, it's so much more user friendly!
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