I have four rir hens, a Brahma rooster, and a golden laced polish rooster in my flock, I have more chickens but these are the ones I have a question about. I’ve hatching chicks lately from my flock and I want to know if the red brahmas and red polish mixes will be good egglayers.
Here some...
We have a few red stars and a beautiful rooster. I understand they’re hybrids but I’m unsure about breeding. If we hatch their eggs what breeds will we get?
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Fate has dropped into my lap a couple of odd combinations!! We were told that these two combinations could potentially provide sex linked offspring, but I have struggled to find (and fully understand) information online to back this up. I would like to know more before diving...
This is like a game of "Guess The Animal", but with chicken breeds! The rules are:
1. Try to use more common breeds that most people will know. For instance, don't do a White Faced Black Spanish!
2. Only one breed to guess at a time. Once one breed has been guessed then another person can post...
Over the years, I've seen lots of hybrids from rooster x Pheasant hen and Pheasant x hen. Both F1 offspring have no Chicken-like combs or wattles.Even whether they're fertile remains quite controversial.
Recently, however, I came across an article that said fertile hybrids have already been...
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Hey Hybrid experts:
I have 2 AMERAUCANA Roosters w/blue egg gene that I wish to cross with White egg laying,HIGH egg production cold hearty HYBRID hens for blue eggs.
1) Are there ANY high
egg production Hybrids
that lay WHITE eggs pls?
2) IF not:whats the highest white egg...
Hi everyone,
I have documented My Flock Journey from the very beginning.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-flock-journey.1258290/
But people stopped getting notifications from my original flock journey so I have created a new Flock Journey 2.0. I will be sharing my flock updates...
a = araucana roo
b = white leghorn hen
c = crested cream legbar roo
d = rir hen OR nh hen OR rsl hybrid hen
ab roo over cd hen = easter egger offspring
about 80%+ chance of laying a bluish or greenish egg
laying more than 280 eggs in the first season
Ok, so new Breeder and I may not have a lot of experience incubating and hatching baby chicks, but as far I've had incubated last year 2017 started somewhere in October and hatched 17 healthy chickens. I've purchased a lot of chickens for the past 2 years and I decided that I didn't want to...
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I am in the process of rebuilding my flock after suffering several losses earlier this year. I recently acquired a Cuckoo Marans cockerel who should be sexually mature in the next few weeks. I also have a barnevelder hen who hatched a clutch last year and has already attempted...