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Awesome! I appreciate the encouragement! We're going to inseminate next week, on the 23rd I believe. I'm excited, gonna watch a few videos and prepare myself haha! I'll update this thread to tell everyone how it goes!

I don't believe she has a prefab, I can see how those can work really well though. She has two "coop pens" That are predator proof. They're smaller pens with coops inside for the birds to use. She locks them in these pens at night. One she has all of her extra roosters in which works well since...

Got it, I assumed this was going to be necessary. I'm heading down their on Monday, so I'll see if we can get a pen setup to separate them.

I'm interested to try it. I think it will be really fascinating. :D A fun experiment.

Another factor to consider. The EE hens have been in a run with a young Jubilee Orpington rooster. Not really sure how old, but old enough to mate laying hens. She hasn't seen him mate, but of course that doesn't me he hasn't been. Assuming the the EE's have been mated by him, will his genes...

Okay got it. Parent to offspring, writing that down. Thank you!

Cool! I'll probably start a thread about the project and see how it goes. Mostly for my own ease of being able to have all of the information in one place, and having a thread about it specifically if I have any questions. Thank you! I'll post pictures of both roo's either here or in the other...

Got it. So breeding siblings to siblings or back to parents is the best way to go. I know she's not against culling, but culling as little as possible is preferred. We'll do what we have to do though. Thank you! This has been really helpful.

She has two bantam roosters, a White Tailed Black Japanese bantam, and another who's breed I'm not certain. I was just wondering if it mattered which rooster we used for the cross. Or if one with tied better results. Thanks so much for your help everyone! I am a total newbie to breeding hahaha!

Interesting, so it will just take longer breeding back to offspring to get the size is what I'm assuming. Also want to make sure that breeding siblings isn't going to be a problem? I think I know the answer but had to double check. 😁

Good to know. So assuming it will still produce bantam chicks, will it just take more breeding to get the desired traits? Would breeding with one of the two roo's work better than the other?

Interesting. This is very helpful. Do you think we could still accomplish it with bantam roosters, or would we only get standards?

@MysteryChicken @clbarnar @anyone else?

Hi everyone, I have a question about a friend who is starting a small business selling some chicks in her area. She's not NPIP certified, but she doesn't plan on creating a large business either, something small with a few breeds. So far, the only pure bred she has is a good group of Jubilee...