That's a pretty good size on your malines, are they very difficult to find a good source of that breed?
I'm excited about the white bresse and more ayam cemani chicks in the next week or two, then no more until spring.
In another thread on byc there was a member that wrote about auto sexing a fm roo over non fm hens to get pullets all fm (black) meat to a degree and a higher % of female to male ratio, this is incredibly appealing to me in many ways, auto sexing, a bigger fm meat chicken, and as the ayam cemani seem to not be super cold hardy, better cold hardiness in the progeny depending on the non fm breeds used, if I understand correctly.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing the possibility of what kind of meat/size etc the bresse with a big cemani rooster over them produce.
Dc- the ccl x bresse sound very interesting! Maybe in the spring when I add the svart honas, smithies from your lines to mine I can add a few of the crested bresse blue egg laying do chickens too. Are they dressing out at a nice weight? What about their personality?
I'm excited about the white bresse and more ayam cemani chicks in the next week or two, then no more until spring.
In another thread on byc there was a member that wrote about auto sexing a fm roo over non fm hens to get pullets all fm (black) meat to a degree and a higher % of female to male ratio, this is incredibly appealing to me in many ways, auto sexing, a bigger fm meat chicken, and as the ayam cemani seem to not be super cold hardy, better cold hardiness in the progeny depending on the non fm breeds used, if I understand correctly.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing the possibility of what kind of meat/size etc the bresse with a big cemani rooster over them produce.
Dc- the ccl x bresse sound very interesting! Maybe in the spring when I add the svart honas, smithies from your lines to mine I can add a few of the crested bresse blue egg laying do chickens too. Are they dressing out at a nice weight? What about their personality?