The title says it all. I want to cross the biggest barred rock rooster I can find to black ameraucana hens. The goal is to make a dual purpose bird, sexable at hatching, with beard and pea comb to deal with New York winters on the top of a mountain. What breeders make the biggest barred rocks...
Do cubalaya carry the mahogany gene? They look to be deeper red than standard wheaten (especially the hens) but they don't hold a canle to mahogany faverolles. Is it just not as dark a red in general exhibited in cubalaya, or are they just straight wheaten?
The title says it all, I am on the hunt for the best blue wheaten ameraucana and blue wheaten marans breeders. I am not looking for show quality necessarily, but I am looking for the biggest and blockiest examples of the breeds. Egg laying rate is also of big importance to me.
Okay, with the purchase of some land to homestead on, I want to start working on developing an heirloom breed for the family. I want a bearded, pea or rose combed, autosexing, brown egg laying bird. My plan was to cross up a salmon faverolles cock on a dominique hen. The resulting cock would be...
I am putting together plans for a 1.5 acre homestead with an apple orchard, grapevines, a sizeable garden, chickens, and some other fowl. I'm weighing my options between Naragansett turkeys or Shetland geese. If I were trying to have my geese live as much on grass as possible, how much space...
I had read somewhere that the egg size and lay rate qualities of a cross tend to come from the genetics of the rooster's line. Has this been scientifically quantified, or is it just anecdotal? Have you guys found it to be true at all?
My parents have been raising chickens for a couple years now, and I have been feeling the itch to get out of the neighborhood and get out where I can play around myself. I bought an acre and a half, and will be clearing all of the overgrown weeds and brush this fall and next spring. I have a two...