When I talked with Ronny, he said his Meat Makers were the birds that I was looking for. Unfortunately he's sold out of those eggs at the moment. Yes, the Pharaohs and A&M's are smaller birds from what I understand. Ronny also told me that the MM eggs may produce some white birds or off colors and not to keep those birds for breeders. As I mentioned previous, I'm not interested in colors, so as long as they're the biggest, I don't care if they're white or purple! LOL I suppose the white birds may not produce the largest birds in the future, which is what I'm after. So I'll keep the best and biggest of the brown birds for breeders as he advised. Which according to Ronnie is only a year. At nine months, you start raising your next batch of breeders which will be ready by the time your existing breeders hit a year old. Cull the existing and move on with the new.
Now I'm not into genetics by no means. But I'd think if you kept new breeding pairs from the old strain and introduced a male from an outside strain with old strain hens, you could see how the two lines produce.
Well as far as
ebay goes, no education is "free". One always pays a price in some way, if it's not by getting skinned knuckles working on a car, or a bad
ebay deal. We all hope the price paid is no steeper than we are willing to accept. LOL! All my adventures into raising quail will require mail order eggs, as no one in my area raises quail that I know of. So it is nice to know who provides the best "Jumbo" strain, and is a pleasure to deal with. These are the folks worth putting on your "go to" list when it's time to get a new batch of eggs. This is what lead me to my original post asking if anyone had purchased eggs from T-Mike and how the hatched birds turned out. He could be the first on my "go to" list, but it seems no one has purchased his "Jumbo" eggs.
