Recent content by Zanybabzooka

Oops, Jawbreaker is 9-10 months old. Not 6 months old.

A few of the hens. Starburst - Psycho - Blue Clan - 6 months old Daffodil - Psycho - White Clan - 1 year old Lilac - Psycho - Yellow Clan - 1 year old Psycho - Psycho (lol) - White Clan - 5 or 6 years old (not sure) Chocolate Chip - Easter Egger - Blue Clan - 8 months old

So I don't mind if adding in the Marans causes me to get less eggs, because it improves other areas that are lacking.

Oh I forgot about laying age. My aim is for them to start laying around 6-7 months, so that they are hopefully laying before cold weather their first year. I'm not looking for chickens who produce a ridiculous amount of eggs, or start laying at 4 months old. My "Psycho" line already lays about 6...

Clan mating explained - http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Clan+Mating.html

The four keeper roosters for spring 2016 breeding, pictures and a little info about them. Goliath - Lavender Orpington - White Clan (I'll explain this later) - 1 year old David - Easter Egger - Blue Clan - 2 years old Bazooka - Black Copper Marans - Yellow Clan - 5 months old...

Nope that's fine! That's why I put it up here, as well as a record keeping tool for me.

They'll all be mixed by the time I'm done with them. Lol

I'm gonna write about all my chicken breeding experiments here. You can follow along and comment if you'd like. I picked a few purebred and mixed breed chickens to start with and am now starting to breed them towards these goals. *Cold hardy *Fairly good winter layer *Lays at least 3-4 eggs...

Congrats! My eggs are due tomorrow! So excited!

I'm so excited! This isn't chickens, but two of my three mixed breed ducks laid their first eggs!

Looking good! Hope everything goes well!

Good news! 25 out of 29 eggs are alive and developing, today is day seven. One I'm not sure, so I'm gonna leave it in the incubator until the next candling. Oh man though, those EE eggs are hard to see through! Lol

Just set some barnyard mix eggs! I have EEs, a Marans, and three mixed breed hens. I had a Phoenix rooster, a few 1/2 Phoenix roos, two EE roosters, and an Orpington rooster in with them. So who knows what I'll get! Lol I set 23 eggs, plus a few pullet eggs thrown in to see if they'd hatch or not.

Okay cool, thanks!