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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?
 
DanielleBoyer said:
I'm in georiga
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Welcome Danielle. Where about in GA do you live? I'm in Carroll County between Carrollton and Villa Rica.
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brucifer said:
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.
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They go by what the hatchery tells them!!
 

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