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I have these Legbar males also. Which do you prefer @The Moonshiner ? I like the lower tailed rooster because I was shooting for using his offspring from the F1 cross to balance out the high tails that the Red x Brown offspring are very likely to have since their sire, the Red Leghorn is squirrel tailed. The low-tailed rooster also has the best disposition. The others can be snots.

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Chookwagn said:
Whats your breeding wishlist look like this season Moony?

What colors you trying for?
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I've got to see what I have still before I can make plans. Year before last I thinned way down then without hatching many last year and thinning down even more I'm low on about everything.
Actually worried if I can get back on top of some.
I know I should try to get back to numbers on buff, exchequer & blue exchequer, barred & blue barred, silver crele & blue silver crele, lavender silver duckwing, I'm down to one crele so need to look at doing something there for crele and blue crele, so ya 50 ideas and no idea which I can accomplish or afford to feed.
Afraid the next couple years are gonna be feast or fathom.
 
The Moonshiner said:
I've got to see what I have still before I can make plans. Year before last I thinned way down then without hatching many last year and thinning down even more I'm low on about everything.
Actually worried if I can get back on top of some.
I know I should try to get back to numbers on buff, exchequer & blue exchequer, barred & blue barred, silver crele & blue silver crele, lavender silver duckwing, I'm down to one crele so need to look at doing something there for crele and blue crele, so ya 50 ideas and no idea which I can accomplish or afford to feed.
Afraid the next couple years are gonna be feast or fathom.
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what you going to do with the fat chocolate things you hatched last season?

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KF0002 said:
I have these Legbar males also. Which do you prefer @The Moonshiner ? I like the lower tailed rooster because I was shooting for using his offspring from the F1 cross to balance out the high tails that the Red x Brown offspring are very likely to have since their sire, the Red Leghorn is squirrel tailed. The low-tailed rooster also has the best disposition. The others can be snots.

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Ya if you're worried about top line and tail set I'd go with the white. Only down side is having the recessive white gene that's gonna hide.
 
Chookwagn said:
what you going to do with the fat chocolate things you hatched last season?
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Idk. They'd be a long project with the brown egg genes. I should just cut my losses. Might try to move forward with very limited numbers or if I get stressing over trying to hang on to varieties I'll boot them.
I wish I could be happy with just 2 or 3 varieties but I have a problem.
 

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