YO GEORGIANS! :)

[DanielleBoyer]

I'm in georiga

 

[brucifer]

Lately I've been rethinking how to upgrade my flock. For the birds I keep as layers, show quality isn't that important; egg production is. In that department, I'll take a good layer over a show bird that lays poorly any day. However, I want top-quality birds for breeding and showing. To develop show-quality birds, there are several of different ways to get there: One way is to buy hatching eggs from a breeder and breed your own birds over several generations to the APA standard. (If you buy chicks from a breeder, you're probably not going to get their best hatchlings. Breeders probably will reserve those chicks for their continued breeding program.) Another way is to buy existing show-quality birds, and develop your own breeding program from there.

The first way will require a less-expensive initial investment but it will probably take a lot longer for your program to produce show-quality birds than the second way, unless you get lucky and hatch great-quality birds right from the start. The second way of course requires much more of an initial investment because you're buying proven show-quality birds, but you probably won't have to work as hard to produce your own show-quality birds. I know there are other scenarios, but these are the two that came to my mind.

What also came to mind is that someone who is interested in a serious breeding program needs to make the right contacts to acquire quality eggs and/or chickens. It would seem that joining a poultry club and getting to know the club members and who breeds what would be a good place to start. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

 

[brucifer]

I'm in georiga

Welcome Danielle. Where about in GA do you live? I'm in Carroll County between Carrollton and Villa Rica.

 

[DanielleBoyer]

Welcome Danielle. Where about in GA do you live? I'm in Carroll County between Carrollton and Villa Rica. 

north of Cartersville

 

[katsdar]

I'm in georiga

Welcome

Where North of Cville? I'm in Rome

 

[DanielleBoyer]

Welcome

Where North of Cville?  I'm in Rome

white

 

[katsdar]

white

You are really close, what kind of birds do you have?

 

[DanielleBoyer]

You are really close, what kind of birds do you have?

I really don't know. My neighbors chickens came over here and one had babies but the one stays here and the rest go back at night but come and hang out all day. So I really don't know what kind they are.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

The latest sales pitch I heard at a feed store that was selling chicks was the following: "Ninety percent of the chicks we get and sell are pullets." The store owner said this with a straight face while I was looking an older chick in the bin that was obviously a cockerel. Preying on customers like that isn't cool or smart for a retail business.

They go by what the hatchery tells them!!

 

[Lookin4GoodLife]

These boys are still young just starting to look like roos and get the tail feathers, so how far are you away from needing boy CCL's

Oh forever. I have so much work to do I only get over to the farm about once a week. No realistic time frame at this point.