Culls-not fit for his breeding program
The Welsummer Thread!!!!
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Haha! Yeah, well I love Wellies and I think that I want to try breeding them also
Have any of you ordered much from Meyer Hatchery online?
A friend of mine has and she had the layer assortment...very nice ones. She has some goreous Buff Orpingtons from that place. Silver Wyndottes were pretty marked the best I've seen in a hatchery stock. The EEs are beautiful.
Haha! Yeah, well I love Wellies and I think that I want to try breeding them also
Have any of you ordered much from Meyer Hatchery online?
A friend of mine has and she had the layer assortment...very nice ones. She has some goreous Buff Orpingtons from that place. Silver Wyndottes were pretty marked the best I've seen in a hatchery stock. The EEs are beautiful.
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Haha! Yeah, well I love Wellies and I think that I want to try breeding them also
Have any of you ordered much from Meyer Hatchery online?
A friend of mine has and she had the layer assortment...very nice ones. She has some goreous Buff Orpingtons from that place. Silver Wyndottes were pretty marked the best I've seen in a hatchery stock. The EEs are beautiful.
Yay! That's where I'm getting my Buff Orpington hens
Haha! Yeah, well I love Wellies and I think that I want to try breeding them also
Have any of you ordered much from Meyer Hatchery online?
A friend of mine has and she had the layer assortment...very nice ones. She has some goreous Buff Orpingtons from that place. Silver Wyndottes were pretty marked the best I've seen in a hatchery stock. The EEs are beautiful.
They are not as BIG as the exhibition ones but the color was beautiful, like a palomino/newly minted gold instead of a smutty washed out gold color like I've seen from Cackle, McMurray and Ideal Buff Orpingtons. (my other chicken friends ordered them).
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Ah, well I'm glad that I ordered from there! I was actually planning on buying from McMurray when I saw that I had to at least get 25
So, I chose Meyer!
Ah, well I'm glad that I ordered from there! I was actually planning on buying from McMurray when I saw that I had to at least get 25
And my friend said they are goooood egg layers! She just could not sell the eggs fast enough LOL!
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Leg contest!? Hah! I always judge that first on chickens! ;-) It is where MOST of the DOMINANT faults are: (Example: Feather Stubs, Wrong Color, Sturdyness) If you dont have good legs to support a dual purpose bird, it is no longer dual purpose. I notice a difference in legs with hatchery birds compared to Breeder birds as well. Even my hens have stocky legs!
No. Its from breeding.
That is a hard thing to correct, if they are not corn yellow - I need to get some pics of my birds again, and post them. Yellow is RECESSIVE, so once you breed it in, it will be harder to breed back out. So in the first place, why add it when it will cost more and more time to fix? It is easier to cull out than to breed out!
IMO the main focus is to BETTER THE BREED, NOT TO MASS PRODUCE IT. I have many breeds that I *want*, but if people add too many breeds, I personally do not think they cull as hard, as they cannot raise 100+ of a breed to select new breeding stock. This year out of 100 birds, I was able to cull down to 4 roosters, and 12 hens! Some of the others could have made the cut, but breeding the best of the best gives you more chances of producing the best! This is easier for me to do, as I sell my welsummer rooster culls to the Hmong community up here, and most of them pre-book for them in the fall, so I already have 90% of my excess culls sold for the year in the fall.
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Leg contest!? Hah! I always judge that first on chickens! ;-) It is where MOST of the DOMINANT faults are: (Example: Feather Stubs, Wrong Color, Sturdyness) If you dont have good legs to support a dual purpose bird, it is no longer dual purpose. I notice a difference in legs with hatchery birds compared to Breeder birds as well. Even my hens have stocky legs!
No. Its from breeding.
That is a hard thing to correct, if they are not corn yellow - I need to get some pics of my birds again, and post them. Yellow is RECESSIVE, so once you breed it in, it will be harder to breed back out. So in the first place, why add it when it will cost more and more time to fix? It is easier to cull out than to breed out!IMO the main focus is to BETTER THE BREED, NOT TO MASS PRODUCE IT. I have many breeds that I *want*, but if people add too many breeds, I personally do not think they cull as hard, as they cannot raise 100+ of a breed to select new breeding stock. This year out of 100 birds, I was able to cull down to 4 roosters, and 12 hens! Some of the others could have made the cut, but breeding the best of the best gives you more chances of producing the best! This is easier for me to do, as I sell my welsummer rooster culls to the Hmong community up here, and most of them pre-book for them in the fall, so I already have 90% of my excess culls sold for the year in the fall.
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Haha! That's great to know! I live on the same farm as a lot of other family (two other houses of family) so we'll be eating lots of eggs!
Haha! That's great to know! I live on the same farm as a lot of other family (two other houses of family) so we'll be eating lots of eggs!
Mark Montgomery, WCNA member, has that many birds and he would send all of his culls to the sausage factory!
Both bantams and LF birds.
I think Andre does the same thing too.
I think Andre does the same thing too.
Well, thanks for the info!!!
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