breeding

  1. T

    challenging spring and summer

    I've had an unusually challenging spring and summer hatching chickens out. My egg collectors were refrigerating the eggs in the beginning and not placing them correctly for incubation 😭 We've had horrible power surges and brownouts all year, especially during critical times like lockdown and...
    • tolmema
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    • austra white breeding designer chickens dominant white hatching incubation lavender ameraucana lavender gene
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    • Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
  2. chimkinlover

    Poultry Breeding Pens/Coops

    I've been getting into raising rarer breeds of chickens/poultry, so I'm looking for breeding pen/coop ideas. I have lots of groups/pairs I would like to keep separate so I was wondering if anyone had any info/ideas to help me out. I found a few double decker cage ideas online, which seem very...
  3. K

    Backyard genetics

    First, new chicken person, please be kind. I accepted 6 school hatched chicks last spring that were from a backyard mix. I was told that there was a silkie rooster so if any had black skin or a fifth toe, they were from the silkie. So I ended up with 4 roosters and two hens. One rooster had the...
  4. C

    Breeding ducks

    I'm fairly new to keeping ducks and have 2 pekin ducks it seems they are mating from what i can read about it, head pumping and all that. So i have a few questions. - 1. I've read about adding oyster shell to the feed for the eggshells, when should i be doing that if i need to? - 2. Are the...
    • ceeal
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    • breeding ducks
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    • Forum: Ducks
  5. GlicksChicks

    Glicks Chicks: The Chick Flicks

    Hello! This is going to be a thread with stories of my flock and my chicks! Expect cute, silly, and wholesome updates of my flock! Join me as my flock grows and I start dabbling in breeding flocks for pure bred poultry! Also join me in my journey to starting a business in breeding and selling...
  6. E

    Deerhen Project

    I'm looking for any information on what breeds would be best for my breeding project. Focusing on flighty temperament, natural brown coloring, brown eggs, good foragers, dual purpose. I also wanted to know if it was possible to have a natural brown hen with a white tail? Really into the idea of...
  7. TyRi

    What Breed Of Roo Should I Get?

    I’m not fully convinced we don’t have a roo currently but if not, I would like to get one. I want some opinions on which breed would be best for me. They will be in their run most of the time but could free range in the future especially on weekends and evenings when we are home. I am looking...
  8. ChickenQuailMom

    Hatching their own eggs?

    Hello, About a week ago, one of my Bobwhite quail started laying eggs again. I had taken two eggs from her nest. She stopped laying and destroyed her nest. So, I gave them back to her. She literally sang a song when she noticed they were back!! I almost cried! LOL! Since then, she has laid 1...
  9. Ankaa

    Lake County, Florida Laws for breeding and selling chickens/hatching eggs?

    Hello, I am wondering what the laws are for selling hatching eggs/breeding chickens in lake county. Specifically for AR zones and zones that fall under 10.01.06 Backyard Chicken laws. Do you need a limited poultry permit for either of these types of zones? I also do not see anything for selling...
  10. AGeese

    Hawkeye Chickens

    So here in the midwest I selected what I thought best for cold winters, and wide pastures. Currently I'm working on restructuring their quarters keeping in mind what I might need to section off for breeding/brooding. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the rooster I'd want, and I just keep...
  11. AMURPHY227

    Bachelor pads and breeding

    I am in the process of building a bachelor pad for my teenage boys. If you want to skip down to the question, its labeled "QUESTION:" I am not new to chickens, but I am new to a bachelor pad system lol...... Backstory: My husband got me 9 Black Copper Marans from a breeder for Christmas...
  12. talkinboutchickens

    How can I "make" an olive egger?

    Hi I was just curious about how I could get olive eggs, I heard that you can cross a brown layer with a blue layer and you get an olive egger, but last year my sapphire gem roo bred with my easter egger hen and their daughter just lays easter egger light blue eggs, not olive eggs. Does anyone...
  13. BerthaBoo

    Which cockerel would you keep?

    Hi everyone! I have two separate broods of chicks growing right now. One set is 2 weeks old and with a momma hen, the other batch is 8 weeks old and was just weaned. All are with the main flock since I hate integrating birds. The older chicks are all marans mixes (BCM and chocolate marans) and...
  14. Timbers Happy Hens

    Meat rabbit cross

    So I currently keep standard Rex and breed for confirmation for show. I send less than exceptional kits to freezer camp. A dual purpose program. So far I’ve only had one litter. My program is in the ‘garage’ phase. My question is, is there a breed I could cross with my standard Rex buck to...
  15. E

    Breeding expirament

    I'm curious about a breeding experiment I recently thought up. I'm considering breeding welsummers, Bielefelders, and brown leghorns together to create a new breed. I'm mainly wanting a deer Brown hen that's flighty and has a nice sized body for dual purpose. Also an additional trait is the...
  16. ZachyWachy

    Please help, I don't really know what I'm doing.

    Hi, I'm wanting to get into breeding chickens, but I've never tried anything outside of casually letting by broodies hatch whatever eggs they found. I can order some American white Bresse chicks, but kind of want to try crossing them with something that grows bigger. I'm looking to keep the...
  17. SSHilltopHens

    Beginner Breeder Pricing

    Hey yall! I have a small chicken farm on 5 acres located in Dickson, TN, which my partner and I have been running for a little over a year now. We started to dip our toes into breeding a few months ago and are in the process of trying to turn our hobby into a full-blown business to hopefully...
  18. T

    Crossing

    If I crossed a naked neck x cochin, is it better to cross the offspring with the nacked neck or the Cochin? Or should I cross the offspring together?
  19. A

    Breeding blue egg laying Olandsk Dwarfs?

    Hi all, So I recently fell in love with Olandsk Dwarfs. They are so pretty, and I just love the mille fleur coloring! They are a pretty scarce breed, so I am considering breeding them to the SOP and selling eggs and chicks. However, I also love colored eggs, and I was thinking of having a...
  20. McCluckster

    Lemon Blue Silkie Rooster?

    Hey there! One again back from a break to ask if this silkie rooster looks even a little bit close to Lemon Blue? I'm thinking about crossing Lemon Blue cochins with him to possibly make a Lemon Blue silkie. His mom was a buff, while his father was a black crossed blue(?). He hatched out...
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