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Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]
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The blues make pretty birds. Sad I have absolutely no use for them in my project.
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This, instead.
If I was closer to you, I'd take them! They're very pretty, and a nice body shape.
Blues are pretty birds! One of my Blue Australorps is hands down my best layer this year. She's still laying, and everyone else is done.
Are you choosing for aesthetic reasons (want a uniform flock of a particular appearance) or for practical ones (predator avoidance)?
If you are going for predator avoidance, you could leave a few of those in the flock and see how they do. For the exact photos you posted, I think this one matches her background better than the brown bird in the other photo matches hers. (Obviously that could change when they walk to other spots.)
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Has she ever shown signs of going broody?
Broodies are an asset too.
Broodies are an asset too.
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Hatched this year. Only recently started laying.
Broodiness is not something I've selected for
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Only because she's standing in shadow on a morning with really strange (for us) lighting.
But yes, my best birds for what I'm looking for up top seem to have grey underneath, more often than not, so I expect I will get birds like this from time to time until I choose to make an effort at weeding the grey out. Have to finish locking the pattern in, then start selecting for the red I prefer, more orange than crimson.
and I would absolutely rehome to an interested BYCer that wanted to pick her up.
Just trying to get the girl a job!
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