Bear with me a minute because i am completely at stage one of my study on this matter. But i have seen in your posts a lot of these designations like this F1. I am assuming from this context F1 is the first of my breeding attempt? In this instance my young rooster.
I also saw some other...
His sire is actually Brahma. But if i put him with the 5 or 6 largest Orp hens can i eventually start getting bigger buff birds? And how often, if at all should i introduce outside hens or roosters?
I have predominately Buff Orpington hens and a couple Buff Brahma hens. I now have a Brahma Orpington mix rooster i really like that is lighter colored and at least half again bigger than his pops. I plan to put all the Orpingtons in with him and leave his progenitor with all the other hens.
My...