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Best rooster to use for producing next generation egg layers.
I guess I am breeding for extra-large brown eggs with leghorn production numbers. Not sure what will happen with selective breeding Red Star with Isa Brown from two different farms. The hatching eggs I got my Isa Brown Rhode Island Red and white /brown roosters from were very large brown eggs...- cj2024
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Best rooster to use for producing next generation egg layers.
Has anyone bred Red Star or Isa Brown chickens. I want to know if I should use an Isa Brown rooster that look exactly like a Rhode Island Red or one that is white and brown. I plan on breeding one of these Isa Brown roosters to a Red Star hen. I also have a pure white, Red Star rooster that I...- cj2024
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What did you do in the garden today?
Anyway, the eggs these Isa Brown roosters hatched from were the biggest and brownest eggs I have seen, and they were all the same size. They were bigger than the extra-large eggs sold in my local supermarket. I will try crossing them with my Red Star chicks to see if I can breed my own line of... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I culled my most aggressive bulky red ISA Brown rooster and kept the tallest Rhode Island Red looking one and one that look like an ISA Brown rooster. However, the tall rooster's hormone kicked in, and he started beating up on his white/brown younger brother. Furthermore, he started chasing my... -
What did you do in the garden today?
The bigger chicks stopped pecking the little brown chick after they assigned him a feeding number. I will add a long type of feeder today, to ease the tension. -
What did you do in the garden today?
A brown chick hatched last night, and I finally got an unfertile egg. I have one egg left on lock down. I feel sorry for the little brown guy because I see the bigger yellow chicks bulling him. I am not sure if it's part of the pecking order process or because of his color, but I couldn't take... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Next Time I will gather all the eggs before placing them in my incubator, instead of putting them in when I find them. Two more chicks just hatched, and it is kind of working out for me, since the older 7-day old chicks don't sleep or hang out directly under the heat lamp anymore, so the newly... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I grew a Kona coffee tree before internet, so I didn't know how to prepare them. I ended up chopping it down, I remember it kind of looked like a Christmas tree filled up with red beans. -
What did you do in the garden today?
My growing season in my tropical area for tomatoes start in November. I think it might be the same for peppers. I have been planting in different seasons to see which one does the best. -
What did you do in the garden today?
I've tried moving them to a place where they get less direct sunlight, but they still get stunted. They start off vigorously green, then when they hit around 12 inches new leaves and shoots stop coming out. I am currently using organic Espoma Garden Tone. I am doing research now and I think I... -
What did you do in the garden today?
A while back I mentioned that I bought a small flour grinder to grind my beans into flour and after grinding my beans into flour, it's been sitting on my counter idling, so I decided to buy some coffee beans. I've been using Yuban and Folgers ground coffee with my Keurig coffee machine, and the... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I don't know why, but peppers don't do well in my environment. I am hoping to find one that does well in my yard. I am trying poblano peppers next. -
What did you do in the garden today?
The other two late eggs hatched, and I have 5 more eggs staggered in time the same way. I just put 3 of them on lock down and moved 2 with a 3-day spread in time in the incubator that just cleared. I am surprised at how fertile my 3 young roosters were. I think I will end up with a 100% hatch rate. -
What did you do in the garden today?
The first 3 eggs hatched as planned and the other two were not piping, so it's all good. I am not sure what color these chicks will turn out to be, but they look yellow. Two Isa Brown rooster parents look exactly like Rhode Island Reds and one look like the traditional Isa Brow white and brown...