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Thanks for the info! I guess we're more into the eggs...I love the colors and temperment, but mine have to produce to stick around!
We don't produce them strictly for show. it is more to preserve the breed as it was intended to be, dual purpose with a long productive life. I have birds at 5 yrs of age that stil lay 5 days a week and in the winter, I do not belive that can be said for hatchery stock. They are also larger and fuller in body making them more paletable as table fair than any hachery stock I have seen lately. We all have our color culls and they serve a purpose for the avearge person just not my breed pen.
Anymore I figure to each thier own there is a bird for everyone. Some prefer a slightly younger maturing bird that has a shorter productive life and some like a larger slightly slower maturing bird that needs rotated out of the laying pen less frequently. Breeder culls in the long run are less costly than hatchery stock every year, and truely help sustain the breed as it was intended to be.
thats good to know! I'd like to have the girls around longer and have them be more productive, but I don't know where my birds came from, I'm guessing they are hatchery birds. I am not looking forward to replacing chickens every few years. our hens are laying pretty well right now, but they just started, and on this farm if they don't hold their own they have to go!
