Re: Brooding hens that won't let me near the eggs

" Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:
"Lu" <Brylu@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

As for all of the mongrels i will have, you are right, sometimes
some
one just needs to hit me over the head to wake me up.

Don't be too hasty about those mongrels. They may have no
commercial
value to people who like pure breds but as layers they may just be
better than the originals. I don't like purebred flocks because
I'm
into tough farm hens, not pretties.

Pure breeds are not necessarily just Pretties

Depends on your viewpoint.

Bred correctly they are just as tough and more reliably productive.

Depends on what you class as being "productive". I want good farming
birds that will turn compost and produce eggs. Mongrels do this more
effectively than commercials I find.

Mongrels can be as good, a lot worse or a bit better than their
parents

Depends agian on the criteria on which you rate them.

Commericial hybrids will be more effective than mongrels

But more effective in what way? I find mongrels fill all my needs
much better than commercials as the criteria used for breeding
commercials is not what I am looking for. I will buy commericals and
breed from them with a mongrel rooster if I suffer a full predation by
foxes.



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