So guys, here is a question for you... If you want to carry over a nice trio of wheatens, and you are using blue wheaten x blue wheaten as parents, how many chicks would you have to hatch out to meet that goal?
Our desire is to use wheaten x blue wheaten matings for next year and we are missing the wheatens right now.
Yes, we could go out and buy wheatens if we could find them, but Caleb is only 7, so we have plenty of time to hatch out chicks and learn along the way.
We have hatched Japs and of those - 1/4 are culled right out of the hatcher. for every 100 eggs, you might have 10 chicks you want to watch and grow out. What are ameraucana chicks like? Do you have a higher percentage of keepers, or because the wheaten and blue wheaten color patterns are such late developer, you find that you grow out alot until about 10 months and then cull?
~Patty~