Do you have a plan yet mate ?
How many you starting with, how many you ultimately want as a breeding group ?
Or are you breeding to take cocks & hens for the table or just the spare cock birds and use for duel purpose ?
I have a trio so my plan is to hatch some batches through the year and I will keep the daughters to go back with father I aim to replace all my layers with coucou de Rennes and may aim for around 20 females for eggs and keep surplus cockerels for the table
I will weigh again this year but may do that fortnightly rather than weekly or even monthly I will aim to breed to standard so those failing that will go to table also I feel this is a real chance to ge the breed going been really rare
Sounds like a good plan
Fingers crossed for good fertility and a good breeding season.
I weigh my hybrids regularly to see how they compare with earlier batches and to try to gauge when the best time to process is.
But with my pure IG I only really weigh at 16 weeks because that's the age I'm aiming towards to process, the blue cockerel I kept back was 2.87kg at 16 weeks so I'm getting there.
My last batch is 12 weeks now and I don't know there weight but I expect there will be slightly lighter than the summer birds due to the long night time hours but will see.