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I've never had a partridge rock that wasn't on the wild side..but they 
are so pretty!

Bev

Robert Walton wrote:
> >  I can't think of a variety that
> > I did not like or have some affinity for.
>
> I still have 2 Brown Leghorn hens. They are good layers, eat less food
> per egg, are scrapie, the roosters are about the prettiest and will
> fight off guineas, and one of the two I have goes broody and is a good
> mother once a year. But when you end up butchering them, you get next
> to nothing. The roosters pass that slight of body trait on to their
> sons and daughters off other breeds of hen.
>
> That's the only thing I don't like about them.
>
> Rob - Va
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