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[kwhites634]

Quote: Must have sucked to be you back then

We called that "Reform School"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I still carry a pocket knife.

I try to, unless I have holes in my pockets.

Good morning back, though its already afternoon here!

Where is that?

Good afternoon. What part of Africa?


That's one of two things I carry on a daily basis that I don't feel dressed without.

The other one is my glasses. I don't feel undressed without them but I can't read without them.

@ChickenCanoe

Good morning
Question was, do you use the clan method of breeding?
I was going to but one rooster has a slightly crooked comb. Should I use him and cull from there or use the other rooster for breeding and then start the clan method. I think I just answered my own question but wanted more opinions. Thanks.

By clan breeding do you mean letting multiple roosters run with the flock?
I rarely do that. I try to pedigree each chick with its sire.
My suggestion is to hatch as many chicks as possible and cull hard. Until you have more than 2 roosters to choose from, IMHO, you're spinning your wheels.
How many hens do you have and is their color and conformation good?
IMO, there are so many qualities (comb being one of them) you won't be able to judge properly without a sufficient number of animals to compare. Shape, size, color, beak, leg and foot color, etc.
In my case, with a dark brown egg layer with white earlobes, earlobe color is as critical as comb shape. (carnation comb)
I need to select for the darkest egg, so roosters should come from the darkest egg possible and hens for breeding need to be productive of the correct size and color of eggs.
All birds need to be the right shape. As a DP bird, size matters. Feather color is a problem. For an all black bird, I get too many red hackles in roosters and too much white mottling in hens.
While I'm not happy about feather color in some of the birds, I was always told to first build the house and then paint it.
Get the size and conformation down and then perfect color.
You have to have a fair size flock - at least 40 individuals, hatch a lot and cull hard. Every time I've almost gotten where I wanted to be, I'd get wiped out by predators. I've been tempted to quit.

Must have sucked to be you back then

We called that "Reform School"

It was a difficult school to get into. Only the top one fifth of students taking the admission test were accepted.
What sucked was that I didn't want to go there. My mother made my brother and I both go there. Worse yet, there were lots of good schools much closer. It was on the other end of the city and I had to take 3 Bi-State busses to get there and back. Formation was at 7:30 AM. I had to be on a bus before 6 to get there on time.
Now that I think of it, my whole life sucked.

 

[BullChick]

I love that sound, too! It signifies that the work is done!

LOL yeah, I stayed up til 2 am to watch the first chick hatch, but I wouldn't wait that long to hear the can lids pop!

(Can't you just imagine the tense waiting while staring at the jars?
"Woot! One popped!"
silence .....
silence .....
"Another one!" (dance around in the kitchen)
silence ......
silence .....
silence .....
"YES! Another can! Ten more to go!"
silence ......
silence ......
silence ......
silence ........
.........................................)

 

[BullChick]

Now that I think of it, my whole life sucked.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: At least military boot camp wasn't a shock to you, having already spent four years in one.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

At least military boot camp wasn't a shock to you, having already spent four years in one.

You're right. It was so much easier for me than the other draftees and enlistees. I already knew how to march, I could already disassemble and assemble an M-16, I already knew the General Orders, Code of Conduct, Chain of Command. I already knew the maximum effective range of the AN/PRC-6 and AN/PRC-25 radios.
The only thing I had to learn was the Chain of Command for USAREUR and 5th Army.
I'm not sure if I would have made it without knowing those things first.
I never had to do a pushup for not knowing one of those things. Everybody else was knocking out 50 all the time.

I hated the army too. 2 more years of my life sucking.

Then I hated Ford, 32 more years of my life sucking.

 

[BullChick]

You're right. It was so much easier for me than the other draftees and enlistees. I already knew how to march, I could already disassemble and assemble an M-16, I already knew the General Orders, Code of Conduct, Chain of Command. I already knew the maximum effective range of the AN/PRC-6 and AN/PRC-25 radios.
I'm not sure if I would have made it without knowing those things first.
I never had to do a pushup for not knowing one of those things. Everybody else was knocking out 50 all the time.

I hated the army too. 2 more years of my life sucking.

Then I hated Ford, 32 more years of my life sucking.

X 1,000,000,000,000

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's a trillion hugs. That would take a long time.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Retirement does have its perks; too bad you have to get old before you're allowed to enjoy it

 

[Chaos18]

Retirement does have its perks; too bad you have to get old before you're allowed to enjoy it

Ya mean to tell me I can't retire first and then waste the rest of my life working?