Crossing BBR roo with Wheaten hen will give me F1s. After F1s are crossed, F2s will be pure wheaten, half wheaten and BBR. F2 chicks have the yellow Wheaton chick down, yellow Wheaton with slight chipmunk pattern, or more BBR chipmunk?
If I’m trying to select wheaten out could I just choose the...
I’m going going to raising coturnix 900-1000 quail. Would it be better to make long running cages (like 20ft long) or stacked cages ( 6ft tall, 3-4ft wide)? What dimensions would I need for all the pens? They are for meat.
How many whole coturnix quail would I have to eat in a single sitting to get a total of 150 grams of protein? Also how much is in a single bird as well?
Sexed at hatch.
So what your saying is they could lay the same amount as a leghorn and go broody but you would have to check for eggs twice a day to make sure it doesn’t cause broodyness.
Was thinking thinking about breeding for egg color, plumage color for Ameraucana
Then picking out the...
I have Ameraucana, Leghorn, Orpington, and ISA/BCM eggs.
I also have a silkie roo and some game hens.
The main goal is to get a blue egg layer with large speckles on eggs, bearded, black/blue/green legs, broody, about laying capacity of leghorn, auto sexing like welsummer, and dark black skin.
I...
How were welsummers bred to be auto sexing based on 2 different looking chipmunk patterns? How could this be applied to other breeds? For example an Ameraucana color variety with chipmunk colored chicks.
I have some cream legbar welsummer crosses that I’ve selective breed for intense speckled eggs and auto sexing. The eggs are different shades of green with brown speckles. I was wondering if I crossed them with a white egg layer if they would keep the speckles. Are speckles part of the brown...
Can I give a hen that I have a clutch of eggs to hatch and while she is taking care of those chicks add in more chicks that I hatched in my incubator and then slowly take out the older chicks as I add in new ones? Basically the goal is for the hen to teach them how to eat and drink and the only...
Has anyone ever clan mated their gamefowl and how many family’s did you use? How did you keep track?Is it a good way to breed your gamefowl? How do select a hen out of all the sisters and a rooster out of all the brothers to represent the families in the clan mating? Or other breeds you have...
Has anyone ever clan mated their gamefowl and how many family’s did you use? How did you keep track?Is it a good way to breed your gamefowl? How do select a hen out of all the sisters and a rooster out of all the brothers to represent the families in the clan mating? Or other breeds you have...
Can I show American gamefowl at the pearl river classic? Do you know how much the entry fee is per bird? Where can I show my American gamefowl in Mississippi that will allow me to show them?
I was wondering if i can show my American Gamefowl hens as show birds. I was wondering also if there are any Mississippi chicken shows i can enter them in as well.