Posts by RAREROO

Well firstly, before the Marans police get you, you spell it with an 's' even if its only one, so you can have a Marans, or a flock of Marans, sorry but I just figured id point that out before someone else does. But anyway, for your...

Quote:Originally Posted by nicalandia Quote:Originally Posted by hdowden all crosses will come out looking different because of the gene pool but the pics can show what you can expect from the silkie crosses. i should be...

Silkie crosses are some of my favorite mutts ever, I have yet to see a boring looking silkie cross.Here's the only one I have at the moment, she's a great broody, shes pictured with some BCM chicks she htched a couple years ago and she...

No, you should abandon that area immediately ...........  and sign it over to me.Lol. It looks great just make sure your birds don't float off. I haven't looked into the laws of selling meat in my area yet, but a while back I asked...

Quote:Originally Posted by crj Thanks RareRoo. Understanding genetics is tricky. One of these days I will get the jist of it. Thank you for taking the time.No problem

Quote:Originally Posted by HaikuHeritageFarm Ah! I see. Sloppy reading this morning, I was up inordinately early and hadn't had my coffee. No worries, we all have those moments

Quote:Originally Posted by nicalandia I have so many projects on my head its not eve possible to finish them if I had a life time to do it.. one of them would be sex linked broilers.. using sex linked dermal inhibitor(Id) and...

But with Barred Rock hens, you would likely just get a green egger, you need to add the dark brown egg color from marans. PM onthespot, she breeds Barred Olive Eggers.

Quote:Originally Posted by HaikuHeritageFarm Clint, how is this so? That is a sexlink combo I am unaware of, and is nowhere to be found on the legendary sexlink thread...

That sounds like a good idea to try to sell them as hatching eggs first and then incubate the unsold eggs.  And yes you will see some hatchery quality eggs listed but they usually don't sell for much, but like I said, I've made...