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Spencer:
Sounds like a plan I was getting a lot of eggs a month ago, now I only have 1 laying regularly on entire property. Ready for it to warm up. I'll tell them you said hey, thanks I'll check my email. Hope you get your egg eaters worked out!

Spencer:
I had to scrap the bantams F1s and their F2 chicks this spring due to a kidney stone. It was my first stone and man did it put me down for a while. Never want another one haha.. Had to pretty much get rid of all my growouts from all my varieties besides a few silvers, whites, and some of my LF crele growouts.

The father was an oversized single barred crele easter egger Mb/mb and yellow skinned, he had to weigh over 10 lbs. The hens I used were some white and black LF. I crossed the F1 daughters, who were barred split to partridge, back to their dad. Unfortunately I didnt put dad up after free ranging and a fox got him this summer :/ but I hatched what was left of the fertile eggs.

I culled all but one F2 son, hes single barred split to partridge Mb/mb and has 1 copy of yellow skin. I saved a couple crele daughters that are still growing out but they dont look like much use so far. I do have a partridge daughter Im pretty happy with but she has alotta growing out to do.

1 Crele Dad
2 Daughters F1
3 Daughters eggs F1
4 Son F2
5 Son F2
6 Son F2
7 Partridge Daughter F2

kkdossey:
Interesting project you've got coming along there.
Chris Cross may also be working on something like that if you're still looking for that kind of info, I know he has some project stuff going.
Good luck!

Spencer:
Thanks! I know he had some cuckoos, but when I talked to him last he didnt have them seperated from his cuckoo lavenders.

At this point I'm just riding it out, working on getting them back to Mb/Mb, partridge based, and removing the yellow skin. If I can get that far then Im content on this line. Just wanted a nice backyard autosexing flock.

If I was to do it over Id start fresh with Wheatens and silvers to create a BBR line, then cross over a cuckoo line like Chris's or even a LF barred rock or dominique. Breed around til I had some creles then go from there. But with ever mounting feed costs Im focusing on bantams and keeping half a dozen of these LF for fun. 🤞🤞 hoping they stick around a few more years to see them turn into something

kkdossey:
Interesting stuff. I've never got in to doing stuff like that. Maybe some day. Keep us posted on them, and you'll probably have people want to buy them too!

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