Wrath's Marans

[Tstraub]

On my yard the males are definitely held to a higher standard than the females because they contribute half the genetics to the entire breeding pin. One male services several females. I don’t need to keep nearly as many boys as I do girls. I look for reasons to keep the girls around and I look for reasons to put the boys in the freezer.

I don’t know if chooks man has some deeper reasoning for his decision but I am definitely curious to his thoughts. He definitely has a lot more experience and I’m always happy to learn from him.

 

[wrathsfarm]

On my yard the males are definitely held to a higher standard than the females because they contribute half the genetics to the entire breeding pin. One male services several females. I don’t need to keep nearly as many boys as I do girls. I look for reasons to keep the girls around and I look for reasons to put the boys in the freezer.

I don’t know if chooks man has some deeper reasoning for his decision but I am definitely curious to his thoughts. He definitely has a lot more experience and I’m always happy to learn from him.

I've never hatched one with that much yellow down so intriguing to learn the possible cause and reasoning myself.

 

[Tstraub]

Yea, I’ve never seen a BCM with any yellow down feathers. I assume it’s genetic but not sure what genes are hiding. I always thought yellow down meant white adult feathers. I had an olive egger cockerel that had blue base color and a yellow belly as a chick. I didn’t think much of it at the time because it was an OE anything goes with them.

I gave that one away to someone who bought a couple pullets so I don’t know how the eventually grew up to look like