The Poultry Keeper

Welsh Duck · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

Utility strain means that the most productive birds are bred from. Bred for egg laying or meat depending on the breed. If you are a backyard flock its best to go for birds like this as they should be more hardy and more productive than say a show strain.

Many of the hybrids are bred from utility strains of pure bred poultry. They are getting harder to come across.

tracey061196 · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:30 am Post subject:

Hi all

Well the 48 hatching eggs i purchased from the gentleman at Lansdown, Bath i candled them last week and 41 are fertile.

They are due out on Wednesday 23/7/08, i will let you know.