of course I'm no expert but I'd agree Chris that his tail seems a little high but he looks young, do you think he might level out a little later?
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of course I'm no expert but I'd agree Chris that his tail seems a little high but he looks young, do you think he might level out a little later?
That would be great.I have been looking for some pictures I have, but am having no luck. They are on my old computer. Anyway, I have great examples of poor tail angles, and even, "tail break." I will keep looking elsewhere.
I feel I can make this comment, since the birds I am talking about ALL come from my stock.... This is my opinion:
Luanne (cpartist) has culled well, and I really like her keepers.
banjoejoe stock..... Don't know if I have seen them all, but I don't particularly care for the ones I have seen.
tail angle does not change with age it is what it is from the beginning. I agree with Mrs. Kathy, you should be culling out high tail angles now, along with dropped wing, split wing, wry tail, pinched tail, ect on these NH. They are far enough along in disposition to do so. There's plenty coming out now to do this sort of culling now. You don't need to keep producing more bad traits. If you were starting out with hatchery stock or a very rare type(breed) and trying to improve them I'd say yeah you gotta use what you got, but in this case there should be enough around to choose good breeders from, especially with all that have them here on this board. Don't get the cart before the horse, its easy to undo what's already done and a lot harder to fix than mess up.
I have one NH pullet with dropped wing I will not be putting her in the breeding program even though I only have 5. I would rather just use the ones with proper form than have to weed out the culls later on. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. These are serious breed stock not just average everyday barn-yard chickens. If you do it right the end results will pay off, jumping into this too fast for the quick monies(fad is going on) and producing 2nd class birds will backfire eventually! JMHO I shall step down from the soap box now.
G'day
Jeff