WestKnollAmy
The Crazy Chicken Lady
Mine are certainly all over the place in color and pattern, just look at those 2 boys in my post. I try to have patience with that. It seems mine are holding together on good foot feathering, wings, top lines on some but mostly the boys and I get nice full cushions, wide backs and chest. Just not very good color and very little pattern.
I had one roo that was looking good for a month or so and I put him aside with a note to check on later. I looked at him yesterday and yuck. His chest was well patterned as a kid but he had too much red over his saddle and hackles. Now he is almost completely red. Where did those pretty feathers go? And his type is just not very good so I will sell him with a few extra girls or he will go to freezer camp.
I don;t mind feeding the girls for ages because they lay eggs. I give all those small eggs to the church food pantry and know they help someone but I can't feed a ton of roos and they really cause more stress on the whole farm with so many. I am not one to put mine in pens . There is a lot of food on the farm they can harvest themselves until I put out supper each night. Then they all go into the barn in the stall assigned them and get closed up for the night. I really have way too many roos. I have a few stalls with over 200 roos in them each night. they get along well for the most part but they are still pretty young.
Anyhow, I got off the subject.
I do like to keep the MFC birds until at least 4-5 months old. You didn't say how old your little girl was when you discovered how nice she was becoming. I would have guessed at least 4 months? I have gotten a few surprises after that age but not many. I hope I am getting better at knowing who is a keeper and who isn't at around 2 months but I still hold on to them for several months.
I have a few calico looking kids now that I hope will be typy. That project took a backseat for a long while. I have always needed more white in my MFC projects and hope now with the Mottleds helping out I can get better chevrons.
But as you say, another 10 years. I don't even want to think of that.
I haven't seen anything from Lynne in a while. Has anyone heard how her program is coming along this year? Or did I miss a recent post by her?
I had one roo that was looking good for a month or so and I put him aside with a note to check on later. I looked at him yesterday and yuck. His chest was well patterned as a kid but he had too much red over his saddle and hackles. Now he is almost completely red. Where did those pretty feathers go? And his type is just not very good so I will sell him with a few extra girls or he will go to freezer camp.
I don;t mind feeding the girls for ages because they lay eggs. I give all those small eggs to the church food pantry and know they help someone but I can't feed a ton of roos and they really cause more stress on the whole farm with so many. I am not one to put mine in pens . There is a lot of food on the farm they can harvest themselves until I put out supper each night. Then they all go into the barn in the stall assigned them and get closed up for the night. I really have way too many roos. I have a few stalls with over 200 roos in them each night. they get along well for the most part but they are still pretty young.
Anyhow, I got off the subject.
I do like to keep the MFC birds until at least 4-5 months old. You didn't say how old your little girl was when you discovered how nice she was becoming. I would have guessed at least 4 months? I have gotten a few surprises after that age but not many. I hope I am getting better at knowing who is a keeper and who isn't at around 2 months but I still hold on to them for several months.
I have a few calico looking kids now that I hope will be typy. That project took a backseat for a long while. I have always needed more white in my MFC projects and hope now with the Mottleds helping out I can get better chevrons.
But as you say, another 10 years. I don't even want to think of that.
I haven't seen anything from Lynne in a while. Has anyone heard how her program is coming along this year? Or did I miss a recent post by her?
