Here are the POL pullets that were going to go - a few other crested females could go, and one smarty-pants cockerel who never got the barring gene:
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Loved the way they lined up for the snapshot.
The one out of line has some nice pink color:
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Someone phoned me today to say his pullet produced her first egg -- and he's really happy and proud.
Despite the MS in mine (he got his quite some time ago -- and they could be MS free....& There's another place where a testing swab could be a good thing) He wants to try for chicks....with full awareness - but he doesn't have an incubator and the likelihood of broodiness is slim IMO. His have...similar gene pool, earlier departure from the premises - it could be a starting point if I were to decide to depopulate and wait the 2-weeks for the pathogens to all be dead for certain if his swabbed 'clean'. Mycoplasma organisms have thin cell walls and aren't very robust. Or do they have no cell walls...seems I read about it somewhere. IF they didn't have cell walls they would be just blobs right?

An option I'm choosing not to follow, I'll work with the ones here.