Landrace project F1 chicks!!!

[Gigachad poultry]

There's a Landrace/adaptive breeding conversation ongoing that might give you some help from people who have been doing this for decades. I just started my project a few years ago, but my goals are similar to yours.

Really? That's so cool!

Large, broody, capable of foraging their food even in winter and reproducing enough to outbreed the predators.

Interesting! I'm more focused on egg production than meat production

So far predator losses are low (one rooster caught in a tailchase by something large enough to carry off the body, two hens vanished). Hawks fly over, eyeball the situation, and go elsewhere.

That's cool! I haven't lost any of mine to predators yet, although my rooster has fought off a hawk before

 

[LaurenRitz]

That's good that he's willing to fight off a predator. Most roos will warn the hens and then run and hide.

My first roo was perfect with predators. If he could fight, he did. If not (as in a neighbor's dog) he led the predator away and then flew back when he had it far enough away.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/landrace-adaptive-breeding-discussion.1624350/

 

[fluffycrow]

Thanks!

Yup! She's actually part of his flock and is broody her own eggs that he's the father of!View attachment 4108526

Best of luck to her as well, then. What breed(s) is she?

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Best of luck to her as well, then. What breed(s) is she?

I actually have zero idea what she is mixed with tbh