Picking stock birds from my sale birds page So, yesterday I spent all day going through my hens on the for sale page, taking new pictures. You might find this interesting: I pulled 5 hens to breed out of. Why? When I put them on their many months ago, they were younger, had not molted much, from flying in a kit. When the hawks start showing up, I start pulling them from the kit. They get more rest, more feed, more grit, and then start molting faster. I could look at them on the perch and say, "Holy crapoly." The first thing I check when I pick up the roller is the KEEL; this has to do with the APPLE body but is more complicated than that. The shallow keel, not good, the roller is not balanced and will not roll correctly. This is seen by the rollers wings sticking out, and just not smooth, this is from the roller not being balanced, so the next two are the ones we will use for breeding, the medium keel is the perfect keel, but were going to start with the deeper keel, by the way the keel is the rollers breastbone, where the flying muscles are attached to. Now there’s a deeper keeled roller, and then there’s too deep of a keeled roller, which again throes the roller off balance, and again you don’t see the smooth roll. So were going to work with the medium keel, and the deeper keel, but not too deep. So now you’re saying well I got this now. Well NOT SO MUCH !!! So can anybody guess why some perfectly balanced medium keeled rollers can’t roll correctly and looks like a rag doll rolling, yea, that’s what I thought. Well that perfect rolling body is connected too, the rollers not so perfect, brain. Ok, back to the deeper keel, which is like a fatter and shorter apple, but when I see that perfect apple, I just take a bite out of it, and it’s so good I eat the rest of it, sorry I was getting hungry.
I know HA HA, so this is the plan to use the medium keel, to the medium +1, medium +2, their is no medium minus -, a big no no, you don't want a less than med keel, the roller wont roll correctly, OK, this year 2026, I'm going to mate all my med keeled rollers together, and if any more they will be mated to medium +1, from now on this will look like M+1 to M+5, you never want to go past a M+5, OR YOU WOULD HAVE A MODENA TRYING TO ROLL, AINT HAPPENING :)