My project plans and ideas.

[Nicks_Chicks]

Another project of mine is my standard ameraucanas. I have a blue and black rooster (and some BBS eggs in the incubator) and three Ermine ameraucana male chicks on the way. Though the hatchery I'm getting them from (cackle) breeds Ermine to Ermine, and like blues, Ermine doesn't breed true. So what they send out is 50% Ermine, 25% dominant white, and 25% black. I can make more ermines with Ermine and dominant white cockerels, but a black is totally useless to me unless I would have Ermine or dominant white hens, which I don't, because Cackle was sold out on those.

I would like to really start working on Ermines. They are so cool, and I would love to get them recognized one day.

 

[Addicted To Chickens]

Following this thread

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

Following this thread

Thanks!

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

Well, I got my chick order in, and unfortunately the hatchery shorted my ermines. I got some cool stuff though. I'm planning on making white houdans. Basically, the point of making these is because in the latest poultry census conducted by the livestock conservancy in 2021, there were no white houdans recorded in the US. So, Im planning on crossing white polish on mottled houdans. I'm guessing it will take at least 2 generations to make a decent bird. Crossing the white polish on mottled houdans is actually how white houdans were originally made.

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

@ghostshot

 

[Yard Farmer]

How's everything going for you over there with the breeding?

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

How's everything going for you over there with the breeding?

Well.. Idk, honestly. Right now all Im doing is pure moderns. I have 20 of their eggs in the incubator.

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

Well.. Idk, honestly. Right now all Im doing is pure moderns. I have 20 of their eggs in the incubator.

Mostly birchens, but a few BB Reds. I'm working on lacing on the breast for my birchens. Several of my hens don't have any lacing breast lacing at all.

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

So, for my large bird project, I have some f2s hatching tomorrow. They will be 1/4 indio Gigante. I decided I will also incorporate sumatras into the project, for their multiple spurs.

 

[Nicks_Chicks]

So, for my large bird project, I have some f2s hatching tomorrow. They will be 1/4 indio Gigante. I decided I will also incorporate sumatras into the project, for their multiple spurs.

@MysteryChicken