I have always done great with 1000-1200 gram girls producing well. They will breed and then when they want to develope folicles they will eat well and gain a few hundred grams. After laying eggs they come back online fast too and eat great getting back up to size for the next season. Bigger females are most often more riggid in their cycle. They have done it before and want to stay on a schedule. The younger ones are more maleable to your schedule and I have found that with the first time girls even if they are small, the clutches are just as good numbers wise as larger girls. Clutch size is absolutely genetic and has little to nothing to do with gram weight.

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