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look to be large fowl cochins

cockerel

shes broody

ok, your not trying to breed show quality birds right?

what is your goal with breeding sebrights?

salmon favorelles are a good choice

i just got 18 white homers in march and feed them a mix of 50% layer pellets 25% cracked or whole corn (whatever i have on hand) and 25% bird seed mix (white bag with red lettring for TSC) ive been getting tons of eggs and have had at least 6 hens sitting on eggs since early april and have had 3...

oh no i understood that, i guess what im trying to say is as your generations go on youyr hens at least dont have much black to go with the white so you keep getting a birds that almost resembles a wheaten mottled. i would bring in a heavily patterned mahogany boy or a heavily patterned hen, or...

i would bring in some better heavily patterned mille's to use, it appears that the birds you have now are just progressively turning away from mille fleur. they are loosing their patetrn quite rapidly.

theyll be fine

looks like a speckled sussex pullet

cockerel

no, the general rule is 6:1 for pets, 4 or 5:1 for serious breeding

but many hatchery quality silkies 🤮wont. so it depends on who you bought eggs from and what kind of stock they have.

yes, but these are hatchery quality birds we are talking so you cant rule out of reasons such as skin color, foot color, or any other traits really