breeding

I have a Buff Orpington Roo and would like to start hatching my own eggs. This is what I have for my gals! Can you tell me what the crosses would get me or if it would be a totally made up mix! Would any be sex link? Hens: Barred Rock Lavender Orp Speckled Sussex Easter Egger Amberlink...

I have one hen that's missing a nail on the outer toe on both feet. I've kept her as an extra layer and also cause her color is a little hard to come by. If I do breed her and manage to only keep ones with nails on all feet will I keep seeing missing nails on some chicks for years to come...

Hi! I have some questions about breeding specific breeds of Roosters (below), & if anyone has pictures of specific crosses, that would be awesome! Also, can anyone recommend a link or even a book about chicken genetics & breeding? I would love to learn more about it & be able to answer some of...

so I'm getting a flock from someone local. roosters: silver and wheaten hens: silver, black, and blue wheaten what colors could I possibly get if I put the silver roo in with the hens vs if I used the wheaten?

Hi. I am wondering what would the goslings be like from a pure brown female Chinese goose, bred to a pure white Chinese gander? Would they be splash coloured offspring? I have never bred white Chinese geese to brown Chinese geese so I have some questions on this. Any help is greatly appreciated...

hey guys! so i’m just looking for some input, outside of my own brainstorming. feel free to pm me if you don’t want to give away your secrets publicly. 😉 i’m preparing to start a project, creating my own breeds of colored eggers. shooting for all green shades, may mess around with blue but only...

What breed other than silkies is best for playing with varieties? frizzles, naked necks, ear tuft, beards, feet, and of course COLOR! i have a chocolate satin silkie rooster and for hens i have a mille fleur colored showgirl frizzle and a normal mille fleur frizzle, a white showgirl, chocolate...

This thread mainly serves as a place for all aseel and Oriental game fowl lovers and breeders to come together and talk about their upcoming breeding, or otherwise, projects, their hopes for the future, facts and pictures of their birds, breed information, a place for newer people in the...

I’ve been trying to research how the genes of the chickens affected the egg color. I know you need brown and blue to to make olive egger etc etc but I’m confused slightly. So if I have a black mottled orpington roo and Easter eggers (she looks like an amerecauna lays blue eggs) and olive eggers...

I purchased six silkies last fall that were advertised as chocolates. I understand now that quite often chocolate silkies are actually duns. I want to confirm if I have chocolates or duns so my question is this: if I breed these birds together and I get all chocolate colored chicks then I truly...

If I put unrelated chicks in with my mearns pair will they take care of them? Also could I let them hatch and raise their own babies?

I know there’s a couple posts about this already, and what you read says 2-15 weeks for rooster sperm to dissipate. But I’m curious if anyone has personal experience. I have all my birds together right now, but in a month or so I want to breed certain birds with a specific rooster, and I was...

I'm thinking of adding some Wyandottes to this flock of barnyard mixes. They will most likely be silver laced, blue laced red and maybe buff laced if I can find any eggs. I'm planning on putting them in the barnyard mix flock and letting them mix together over the next couple years. I want to...

We got 4 "breeds" of chickens and can't help but wonder what baby chicken offspring would look like if they crossed with my Speckled Sussex rooster. I mostly wonder about how to breed egg color. Any ideas? We are not attempting to get into breeding as of now, but can't I dream? lol Speckled...

Every time I post my black silkie/isabel brahma mix online in my local FB groups everyone always asks what her breed is and that she's absolutely gorgeous and they'd want one. I posted something about her being broody and trying to get her to stop and someone said that I should definitely let...

Hello! I have barred rocks and leghorns and I’m trying to think of a good design for a “space-saving” double coop (aka 2 hutches that are connected) so that each side/hutch/coop can house one breed of chicken. Every design I come across is either too small or has a shared run (which wouldn’t be...

I hatched a lot of eggs from my mixed flock of chickens over the summer, one of the chickens I hatched is a dark Brahma rooster. He hatched from a dark Brahma egg and I’m positive he came from the dark Brahma rooster, the only other Roos were a golden laced polish and an old English Wheaton...

Hello ! If this is in the incorrect category, my sincerest apologies. Background: I have an Olive Egger cockerel (Chip, 7 weeks) that I'm waiting on to grow up. I would like to prove out his genes by breeding him to the brown egg laying females, and depending on the outcome, I would also like...

Considering buying Double tufted rumpless Araucana golden duckwing rooster. If I breed him with my girls what would offspring look like and what color would their eggs be. Hens 1. Buff Orpington 2. Salmon Faverolle 3. Crested cream legbar 4. Single tufted rumpless white araucana (would be...

Hey there, so I acquired this handsome satin silkie rooster that has a single comb. I know that single combs are a breed fault. So here’s my question; can this single comb be bred out if he is crossed with a correct(walnut comb) hen? Trying to decide if he is worth adding to a “project.” Thank you.