Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

So I have a question for people who are familiar with green egg breeds. A few years ago I bought a beautiful rooster, breathtaking colours. I knew he...

Some Thunder Bay news for you all. I'm trying to do my best.

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As some of my research in domestic duck genetics, the recessive blue gene is part of my latest progress. Figured I'd share. The gene is autosomal...

With the warm weather all week today is the day birds are getting moved into breeding pens. We bought our farm in Septermber and had to spend so much...

My 2016 hopefully breeder
What ya think
He just starting to fill in
New to this breed so not sure
But sure is handsome in my opinion !lol...

Time to check how much the Big Boy weighs at 7.3/4 month.
The big wimp, is 3.2KG =bit over 7LB so pretty much on track......
Hamish scale 7.5 month...

This book is a valuable resource for anyone breeding heritage American Fowl.

The American breeds of poultry, their origin, history of their...

More breeding trauma from me, Sorry, just thinking out aloud ;)
So I never particularly liked Black birds., until that is I hatched some Black...

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Just thought I'd share some egg pics. These are as they came out of the nests, no cleaning needed. I'm getting in the 60+ gram...

This is a good article by expert breeder and may be a good way to start the poultry breeding section.

BREEDING THE HOME FLOCK

By Don Schrider...

Ok so all of my breeding knowledge is rooted in horses and cattle, When it comes to breeding chickens it is all new territory. My question is how bad...

Introduced Bluie to the girls a month ago, but decided to wait another month until he was a bit more mature.
He is 6.5 month old and the girls have...

Morley Jull's Poultry Breeding 1932

The recent passing of my Dark Cornish rooster has got me thinking about chicken genetics and weak hearts. I wonder if it's not actually the rapid...