After a failed attempt last night at our city council meeting trying to get the chicken ordinances changed, they tabled the issue because they didn't want to pay the city attorney to change the ordinance if the Texas Bill prohibiting municipalities from banning chickens passes. Anyways I have...
I want to focus on the egg color first then I might play with the color and looks of the birds. I have a few of the dark eggs I put in the incubator some welsummerXmaran so hope fully by fall I will see some results! Next hatch I will set after Easter will hopefully be the welsummerXbarnevelders...
That's what makes sense to me. But I wasn't sure based on mix breeding. But this is something I'm going to experiment with and see what I can get. Hopefully over several years I can get some good dark egg layers
Can anybody give me a rundown on dark egg genetics. I have searched and haven't found much info. Theoretically if I just keep hatching dark eggs will they just keep getting darker. I have welsummer roosters and cuckoo marans hens and barnevelders. I was going to try to just keep breeding the...
Got my first egg from my waterfowl pen. I don't know if it is a duck or goose egg!
But I got 25 out of 38 chicken eggs
And I gathered 424 eggs for the month of January!! Now I need all 157 birds to start laying! Lol
Here is my newest addition ivanka trump! Lol I had to get rid of my chickens when my grandma got cancer and I had to take care of her. I missed my naked necks so much. I had five come in and I have 8 more coming next week!
Okay thanks! I was wondering about their life span. I never had a Cornish rock cross live very long and they try to tell you these don't either but from what little info there is out there about them it seems they do live like a normal chicken. As for the jersey giants I may get rid of them they...
I purchased black jersey giants last year and I lost my rooster. Now I have black broiler (I was told they are dark Cornish x australorp cross) chicks that just arrived. I'm wondering if I'd get a good meat bird if I keep a black broiler rooster to breed to my black jersey giants. Any Ideas??
Can anybody tell me what to expect from this I've tried the calculators but there isn't a buff laced option. My rooster is blue and my hen is buff laced. Will they be sex linked?
I need a little help. I'm trying to breed to the standard but I'm down to one rooster I lost my other one and this one all of a sudden grew two white tail feathers. Is it possible to breed this out in future birds?