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Mine lay well not like RIRs but they lay through the winter better than most my hens laid large eggs. I can't wait to hopefully get this new flock of LF all I have now is bantam faverolles. They are aesome birds I would defenty order some if I were you.
Look at those goreous beards!!! Except for the blue salmon roo which I do see some evidence of wattles....either he is shedding it or its already there. If he shows wattles, I would not use him because it is a fault.
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He is non-dominant and often gets his beard plucked by the dominant roo and the hens when they are housed together... he does seem to have a very small remnant of wattle on that side only but I have never seen one of his offspring with any signs of it and he is so gentle I can pick him up and pet him and he likes it... that is a quality I consider worth a fault that is not being passed on... someone else might cull him... and eventually I will keep one of his sons and send him to chicken heaven but not today
I guess our minds are in different places... I was looking at the photos thinking "which one of those pigs (in the background) has such a skinny butt... I need to process that one!