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Kitsune
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Posts: 1406
Location: Manchester
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: male sussex chick - one week old. |
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this is one of my utility sussex at a week old - I didn't get a comparison pic but his comb is definitely a lot more developed than the others!
Are the utility birds bred to show secondary sexual characteristics at a younger age so they can be culled out of the flock early? |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 10928
Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| nope its just natures way of making poultry keepers work at it..........my L Sussex utility birds took a long time to mature and quite a long time to sex as relative comb size seemed to change.........in the end i think wattle size helped |
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milkmaid
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
Posts: 7370
Location: isle of lewis
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agree with mojo ,utility birds is that you grow both on hens for laying and and cockerals for eatting and then at a later stage hens for boiling fowl ,so both sexes have a reason to grow on ,i love utility birds for this reason, i cannot cull young birds ,and find they are a great way for me  |
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