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Thanks,
They're starting out better than any other breed I've had. Even their first egg wasn't small, and once they started laying, the eggs have been coming every day. I started out with 30 birds and didn't have to cull one for any reason. They all had the exact same leg color and reasonably good patterns on them. Every one of them grew fast and large. This is another thing I haven't experienced in the past. So far, these are proving to be what a chicken should be - fast growing and prolific egg layers.
Fabulous to hear! So glad your experience is so positive with them. I'm very impressed with them as layers as well as their curious and active nature.
Lizzy, the artist's rendering of the standard is actually a much stockier bird than most hatchery Dels. Note the extremely deep chest, especially. The first time I saw that picture, it was what surprised me, that they are supposed to be such a big, broad bird, since all I had seen were narrow, badly colored hatchery birds till that point.
