#breeding

Anyone have some ideas on a cool looking chicken mix? Well, let me know and I might try for it in mid/late 2024. I will me selling all offsprings locally. Hopefully 🤞 I will have this breed selection by next ( 2024 ) spring ( Early June ) but breeds in bold writing will only be old enough for...

Recently we brought 2 chicks that are around 10 - 12 days old and we are not sure about their sexes. Can you identify their sexes by looking at their picture.

Hi all I've got a rooster and 10 hens and would like to put eggs under a (hopefully at some point) broody hen. How old can the eggs be I want to put under her? And what is the best method to store them until one becomes broody? I don't have an incubator as I'd like to do the 'natural' way. Any...

hi! i have a little bantam rooster and two buff orpington hens and am trying to breed them. but even tho one of my orpingtons has a cluch of 12 eggs she still wont sit on them. does this mean her eggs are not finalized? and if so can a bantam rooster even mate with buff orpington hens?

We have a RIR rooster and an Andalusian hen and I was just wondering if any of the eggs she lays will be hatchable and if so what type of bird will they make?

Howdy, all! Has anyone here crossed a Rumpless Araucana roo with a Welsummer hen? I am the very proud owner of Rumpless Araucana SR chicks and Welsummer pullets. I will be keeping one of the Rumpless Roosters so I can have blue eggers and olive egger chicks down the road. I would love to...

Hello! I have four ducks: one female and one male buff ducks and one male and one female blue Swedish ducks. Will they reproduce? Or do I need a hen duck in order for them to reproduce/ mate? And if they are able to mate without a hen duck, how often do they mate and how many fertilized eggs...

What will a SL/GL Wyandotte cross or GL Wyandotte/silkie or SL Wyandotte/silkie look like?

Ok, I'm a chicken genetics novice. But I need your experienced eyes and minds to help solve this riddle. A black silkie rooster mates with a white cochin hen . They have a chick that is a 50/50 silkie/cochin mix. The black silkie mates with both mother and daughter hens. Two similar sized eggs...

Hello I am posting this thread for anyone in the Michigan Area/ Midwest region (if you are willing) to drive. A bit of backstory on these birds: Out of luck my 3 current males came from a flock of 8 (You can see the others stories on the post of me introducing myself) My 3 males are Cashew...

Hi, I'm just wondering what offspring you get when you breed a Lavender to a blue, splash, or black because I am getting a lavender frizzle Silkie chick and I have some different color hens for him/her to breed with when him/her is older. :)...

I hatched an indian runner duck and an african gander this year and they have grown to in inseperable througj the months. I believed the gander to be a goose for a long time and so thought that they were just best buddies. However my brother has noticed the gander trying to mate with the duck...

My dominate rooster was too rough on our hens..so we served him on dinner table:confused:. Now there are two rooster who are son of the older rooster we had...they both seem to bee equally dominant...but as the old rooster was culled one of my chicken started mounting other chickens..!! Are not...