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[birdman55]

Ransoms from today

Pumkin hulsey 1

Pumkin hulsey 2

Sweaters

Spangled butchers

Miner blues above

Claret

Pumkin hulsey 2

 

[JShubin]

I like the big chest on Pumpkin 2

and the legs on the Blue rooster

 

[birdman55]

Blue rooster will fill in more when he gets older same with the claret but they as the older ones are bricks.

 

[JShubin]

Blue rooster will fill in more when he gets older same with the claret but they as the older ones are bricks.

Ya I noticed the smaller spurs indicating stags. but their frames already look as big as the older ones (at the least the Blue, hard to see the Claret's size in that photo).
I favor large frame broodstock

 

[flypen]

If you cross two large families of broodfowl what will be the outcome, normally?

 

[JShubin]

Typically larger fowl.
but because of my crossing with Spanish I got smaller stuff too.

for some reason I found it harder to produce larger ones, so I try to keep those. Average and smaller fowl tend to pop up quite often (or maybe they just survive better on my yard).

 

[roosterhavoc]

Typically larger fowl.
but because of my crossing with Spanish I got smaller stuff too.

for some reason I found it harder to produce larger ones, so I try to keep those. Smaller fowl tend to pop up quite often (or maybe they just survive better on my yard).

Maybe you don’t feed em enough lol

 

[roosterhavoc]

I get a few smaller birds that are the exception and not the rule. No rhyme or reason that I know of. All out of a few different breeds. All hatched in spring and ran the yard til penning age.

 

[JShubin]

I think there is empirical curve in size distribution. Most being average, but every once in a while you get smaller or larger...

I want to keep larger ones and shift that curve so they all come a little bigger in future generations..


Just my preference, not statings that larger fowl are better than smaller ones...

 

[JShubin]

Thats what I have been trying to do for several years, which is why a lot of mine look like they are on stilts and have long bodies.

Fabio (my avatar) was one of the first that had that style. And I bred him extensively to try to propagate that frame.