I always just use what I have! As long as they can get in it, and it holds the dust materials for a few days or so. Then you just add more dust materials as you need to
Okay so the Golden layer ducks are a sexlink hybrids like the red sexlink for chicken egg layers, but if one would try to cross two duck breeds, will the ducks just breed if we put them in breeding pens together? Or will the ducks reject the drake for not having attractive plumage like their...
Im always playing around on the color calculator and I paired a black roo with a black patterned silver columbian barred, and I came out with black pullets and barred cockerels so i wanted to see if anybody here had done it.
Hey BYC, I have bbs orpingtons and buff as well. Im curious about crossing strains. Is there a gender that produces type most consistently? Im thinking its best to breed both hens and roosters that exhibit good type, but what if i had one exemplary hen or rooster. Would it be best to breed back...
Im really just trying to see if I can make silver columbian rocks with the breeds i have. I wanted to buy some but its been difficult to find someone who can ship to Guam. So I went crazy on the chicken calculator until I got to something columbian and selected them and went on test mating only...
ok here I go, keep in mind im a newb go easy on me im only looking for guidance. What I mean by backcrossed two generations is that batch is produced from a Rooster mated to his daughters then their daughters. Both strains are from two different hatcheries. On average hens from both pens lay 5-7...
ok so I can mix in new blood and maintain egg production? Like I said before both strains lay well, maybe I might see some heterosis if they strains are completely unrelated?
ok so new blood(rooster) every generation. Did you maintain egg production? and you say you got dark hens, what about roos? How many culls in each generation?