Of course, also considering Arucana for the beards and blue legs
I trust this breeder as he quarantined birds he got from me and alerted me to some mild bumblefoot he noticed in mine
Was offered to borrow a marans rooster to cross him with my pekins and thinking of giving it a go to get some cool darker eggs and slightly bigger chickens
Might hatch from incubator or broodies not sure yet
Is it safe for pekins to be with a larger rooster temporarily? Or bad idea
Also going to...
They don’t usually get sheen till after the juvenile moult sometimes not even until they are a year old, for my black birds anyway but they are a different breed
Yes we do have black widows in some areas but not so much where I live
Tricky to keep spiders out of the house here we have a resident daddy long legs who keeps away the flies (thankfully they aren’t venomous though)
I’ve bred blue to black before and you usually get 50% blue, 50% black, you only get splash if you breed blue to blue, blue to splash or splash to splash
I stopped turning too early on a hatch be prepared if chicks survive till hatching you will likely need to fully assist the chicks and early before they suffocate from malpositioning