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This years' chicks are now 16 & 19 weeks old, so I spent some time this morning going through them to see who can be culled soon.
I wanted to show a pic of this 16 week old cockerel because he was hatched with a noticeable back defect (the only one I've ever seen like this.) Not sure if I should call it roached because it doesn't hump, but rather it starts off flat then drops steeply off behind the wings. Obviously he's a cull, but thought it notable.
Hatch enough chicks and you'll see some malformed chicks. I honestly believe 90% of these kinds of things are defectively formed in the shell. The whole making a chick inside a shell and that offspring hatching from an egg is a hold over from the dinosaur era, some say, who knows, but for certain? There's gonna be some messed up getting themselves together inside the egg. A cull, yes.
And does anyone have any experience with these kinds of smutty wing feathers? Could they molt out? (This guy is being culled anyway, just interested for future reference.)
thanks!
Im glad your sharing some of your potential keeps and culls. Some of my males look similar, the two in this photo look familiar to me.
I don't know how accurate this is but I was reading some info on BPR as came across a person that wrote a quick blog about their visit to Good Shepard to pick up BPRs, while she was there he talked with her to give her advice, she says he told her to look at the males at 16-18 weeks. If males are crowing or have big combs they are maturing too fast. Slower maturing birds will grow larger. Advise was to cull fast maturing males.
Is this something that most of you do?