cross breed

What breed is good to cross to silkies to introduce specific colors? I’m considering crossing my lavender Orpington girls to my black silkie or paint silkie roo to work towards producing a line of lavender silkies. I know it would take time and work but that’s the fun part! I also thought about...

We got baby chicks over the summer and this was one we got from the tub labeled Blue tint Wyandotte but the head feathers make me wonder if it’s a polish or polish mix? I’m still new to chickens so don’t have a good handle on all the breed characteristics yet! Thanks!

I have 2 black copper Maran roosters in my flock and several different hen types. I recently had a successful hatch of 2 eggs from my coop one is very much a Maran the other I believe is a x with ISA brown. Opinions? Thoughts? How do I determine sex? Thanks!

We now have our Swedish flower rooster and I’m eventually going to breed with Swedish flower hens but right now we are barnyard mixed I was just wondering if anyone had any Swedish flower crosses and what they looked like?! I’d love to see some pictures!

Hi! I am hopeful someone can help me with a situation I had to deal with tonight. This is my first flock in a very long time. I have 18 chickens and 14 ducks integrated. Most of the chickens are 4 months old with threw Jersey Giants and one RIR about 3 months old. Everybody gets along fine...

My neighbor gave me these eggs to incubate. She labelled them above. The roo is a Blue Cochin. Does anyone have any idea what these crosses may look like? The 3 I have marked don't look to be viable, but I'm keeping them in for the next week to be 100% sure.

Hi all! My Cayuga (female) and Khaki Cambell (male) recently had a baby. She’s all grown up now, so she has all of her feathers. At first I thought she was fully brown (Khaki Cambell), but then I realized there is a greenish iridescence on her wing tips, kind of like a Cayuga’s wings. Just...

I currently own one male guinea hen who has became the "pack leader" of my flock of chickens. Recently I noticed the male guinea hen has started mating with the hens. Around the same time my hens have stopped laying in the coop and all have been laying in a nest they share in some brush. One of...

Hi all, Hatching out a few eggs from my Muscovy girls. Assuming this is a mix with the cayuga and not the white runner :lau Just thought people might want to see the mix results- two more currently preparing for final zip :)

y’all think I can put my roundhead game fowl roo in with my silkie hens and he’ll mate them and not just murder them? He is an aggressive SOB. But he’s been gentle with my other large breeds while mating.

Hey all, I have a white leghorn rooster now and am excited to try hatching out eggs. I’m curious on what crosses would be best. My first thought was to try rhode island reds. This makes golden comet or something alike? Would the chicks be sexlinked? Also, I’ve read that black australorp crossed...

So how I understood reading some genetics? threads, SLW roo with a GLW hen will give SLW hens and GLW roos. So if I pair my two GLW hens with SLW roo and get a GLW roo, can I then breed the new GLW roo with GLW hens and get both roos and hens GL?

So.. I know of one person who has this particular cross among us. In time I am hoping I'll have a brood myself. I've ordered 3 Embden geese and 1 Roman Tufted gander. I'm probably not going to incubate, but let it happen naturally. Just wondering if anyone else has had any experience with this...

We currently have Drakes- Khaki Campbell 2 Blue Swedish Welsh harlequin Hens- Silver swedish Black Swedish Cayuga Welsh harlequin 2 blue runners Fawn and white runner Buff Saxony Golden 300 Silver appleyard Rouen We have a very mixed flock, I was curious if I could get any insight on what...

So this was a shock. On the 9 of Dec i came home to four little ducklings sitting in my ducks nest and well three more hatched later and at that point I had seven and sadly one passed away due to health issues. Then some unknown illness took away three of my little ones and now I have three left...

My Ameraucana lays light brown eggs with tiny white spots (pictured) and has these two single distinctive feathers on either side of her tail which I've never seen before. The bottoms of her feet are yellow and she so has a few darker feathers. She's also slightly aggressive towards people and...

I had made an account here to ask about my sick hen (who is doing very well now, I really appreciate these forums!), and I got to questioning what breed she really is. The guy running the feed store who sold us our chickens said that he had Australorp, Rhode Island Red, and Ameraucana chicks...

I have 3 silver grey Dorking pullets. But no rooster. I have a brown leghorn rooster which I want to breed with them. I just have the following questions. How would the offspring look like? Would any chicks have 5 toes? Otherwise how long or how many generations would it take to breed back to...

I am aware that cockerels are a dime a dozen, but I wanted to make these boys available to anyone willing to rehome them. They were hatched out by a broody hen in our backyard, but the eggs came from a mixed flock of all pure breed hens and two roosters. There were two roosters in that flock...

I had 6 chicks hatch this week. They are a cross between a Blue Maran rooster (brown egg) and an Easter Egger Hen (light green egg). They are only a few days old and I am curious if anyone else has a similar cross and what did the offspring's egg color turn out to be? I was hoping to make some...