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mener6896

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I currently have 34 chickens, 31 hens that are rhode island reds, new hampshire reds, silver and gold laced wyandottes, speckled sussex, easter eggers, buff orpingtons, and barred plymoth rocks, and 2 black cochins...

my question is, I have 3 black cochin roosters, they were supposed to be hens, but obviously I am getting fertilized eggs. Is there any problem with trying to hatch any of these eggs? I understand they will be mixed breeds with cochins being the father, but I didn't know if there was a reason NOT to hatch any eggs.

I've never hatched eggs before but I thought it might be cool for my kids.

Thoughts?
 
Nope!
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Hatch away to your heart's content!
 
I have a few chicks whose father is a bantam cochin and the mothers are an australorp, a GLW, and a silver-spangled hamburg. They're darling! I can't wait to see how big they are as adults...

So far I think my cochin crosses are great. They're around 13 weeks old.
 
Hatch them! With what you have, I would love to see what interesting mix comes out! I know that personally, I'm working on seeing what my splashy colored EE rooster will make when crossed with our SLW's, Brahmas, or Crested Polish. Either way, the coloring should at least be neat.
 
I'd just hatch the cochin eggs. Can you tell them apart? My LF cochins lay really round eggs- easy to spot.

I do the same thing with my Sussex. I have an SS roo in my layer coop with lots of breeds. I just take the sussex eggs, (or maybe an orp egg here and there) because I know what to expect. And it's easier to place pure-bred roos if you have too many
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yes definatly,go to lowes,get a book called keeping chickens,actually cross bred chickens are more productive layers and ,given maize(corn) are almost self basting table food and they also will go broody which the pure breds rarely do.
 
sue ragan said:
yes definatly,go to lowes,get a book called keeping chickens,actually cross bred chickens are more productive layers and ,given maize(corn) are almost self basting table food and they also will go broody which the pure breds rarely do.
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The cross-bred hens are more productive layers?

I am pretty sure that production white leghorns are the best white-egg layers and breeds like production reds and Golden Comets are the best brown-egg layers. These breeds are selectively bred. They don't just cross any breeds of chickens.

Where did you get your information about cross-bred hens being the most productive layers?

Maybe I misunderstand what you meant. Maybe you meant cross-bred chickens like Golden Comets. They call these hybrid breeds. But again, these are produced through selective breeding.

If you want hens for egg laying, you want white leghorns. They are the best egg layers. That is probably why most eggs in grocery stores are white.
 
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