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Culling for Duckfoot
Sharon Yorks:
--- Quote from: Jerry Segler on April 15, 2014, 09:29:24 AM ---
Consider all things to be genetic until proven otherwise.
--- End quote ---
But if you cull so soon, how could one prove otherwise...just saying. Or I guess asking :)
If it's out of some of your best birds, I'd give it an extra week.
Max:
I have plenty to choose from so anything that looks suspect or weak will have to go. It sounds harsh but I don't want to take any chances on continuing a noticeable defect.
Russ:
Couldn't have said it better Jerry, and live and learn is the right attitude. Anytime I can learn from somebody else's mistakes/experience I am all for it. Time is one thing a person can never get back so why waste it by making the same mistakes? Good thing about this club is all I have to do is follow the foot prints in the sand :D. Most the "Gurus" have done all the hard work in establishing what we have,
Sharon Yorks:
Has it shown up before out of the same parents or any close relatives? Do you know who the parents are to that specific chick?
Max:
They are all coming from the same pen. I'm getting about 1 in every 25 or so. There is no visual trace of it in the parents. I believe the cockerel is a carrier because he has produced these from different pullets. It's ashame to because he is really nice. :(
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