The Wyandotte Thread

[sbucciarel]

As long as they are not planning on breeding them. That is a trait that should be culled.

Well, that depends on what they are breeding for. I live in a farm area and a lot of the people who come to the weekly chicken swaps don't know or care one way or another about combs, standards of perfection, showing birds or genetics. They put the birds on their farms and get eggs and some process chickens for table also. They often breed what is called the barnyard mix.

Not everyone is into showing and breeding to standard, and that is exactly how I "cull" the birds I don't want to keep. I go to the chicken swaps and sell the birds I don't want cheap to make room for the ones I do want to keep and reduce my feed bill. The buyers have bought what they think is a "pretty chicken" and I don't have to kill birds just because they don't fit into my own breeding program.

 

[Scott H]

Culling is not necessarily killing. In fact it's not even in the definition.

Quote:

verb (used with object)
1.
to choose; select; pick.

2.
to gather the choice things or parts from.
3.
to collect; gather; pluck.
noun
4.
act of culling.
5.
something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.
You are culling and as long as people know what they are getting (pretty bird, etc.), that's great!

 

[Metella]

exactly - a nice hardy barnyard mix is a great thing for a farm or a little backyard with 3-4 hens. Many in the city can't have roosters, so no one is going to try to breed them.

So whatever your climate - hot, wet, cold .... if you have a great mix of genetics from parents ... win win eh?

 

[WyandotteTX]

I think I am going to sell my Silver Penciled Bantams..... not sure I have the tools to work with them. They must know I am tittering on the fence so they have started cranking out the eggs. LOL

Too bad you arent going to keep them but completely understand the frustration. After 18 years with them, I have hit every high or low you could imagine with them. But alas, I continue with them.
Right now we have 4 matings going on with a total of four males and 10 females. So far have hatched about 15 with many more to go. Progress is the name of the game and to attain that you have to hatch a ton of them. Some will have brown on them, some will be single combed, some will have crow heads, the list goes on of what kind of culls we will have. But, we will also have some great birds coming out.

I have written a story about my travels with the Silver Penciled Wyandotte Bantam but would be too large to put on there though.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: PM it to me please! I was going to a show and thought I might try to sell them there since it was mostly a bantam show..... I can't go now so I will keep them a little longer.... and wouldn't you know they started laying like crazy again

 

[WyandotteTX]

PM it to me please! I was going to a show and thought I might try to sell them there since it was mostly a bantam show..... I can't go now so I will keep them a little longer.... and wouldn't you know they started laying like crazy again

Tried to but its too big I believe.

 

[SampyArctica]

My GLW, now at 26 weeks.

Her Coro Sussex sister was grooming her. ^_^

 

[PeakyBeaky]

PM it to me please! I was going to a show and thought I might try to sell them there since it was mostly a bantam show..... I can't go now so I will keep them a little longer.... and wouldn't you know they started laying like crazy again

 

[ki4got]

 
PM it to me please!  I was going to a show and thought I might try to sell them there since it was mostly a bantam show..... I can't go now so I will keep them a little longer.... and wouldn't you know they started laying like crazy again

Tried to but its too big I believe.

you could always break it up or create an article on it that you can link here. I love projects but have too many right now.

 

[Lapeerian]

Happy Easter all! Just joined this thread, had chickens 2 years now. I got 3 GLW my first year, one rooster that went bad, a straight comb hen that died and still have the remaining GLW roo as my main flock roo. He's a good boy. I have a mixed flock of 20 for laying. I got bantams from the TSC mix this year. The one is developing into a BLRW bantam roo. I am due to get SLW LF next week. I'm trying to learn chicken genetics, so was wondering what I might get if I crossed the BLRW bantam roo with the SLW LF? Color and size? Here is the boy "Chunk".