A. Is anyone working on creating these?
B. Without crossing to a BLRW, what would be the best way to create this project color?
My thoughts...
Cross a Gold Laced Cockerel to a Red Hen --> per the chicken genetics calculator the F1 (A) cross will be Black patterned red
You would also need...
I wanted to run a test hatch for fertility - currently have BBS and chocolate Orpington hens in with a blue, black, and lavender cockerel... From my hatch one of the chicks from the Orpington pen is blue with a red dot on its head .... Is this leakage? Odd recessive gene popping up? This is the...
Hello!
In the next couple weeks I will be shipping chicks for the first time ever! I've ordered boxes and pad inserts. The lady who wants the chicks only lives 5 hours away (upstate NY), what do you think is the minimum number of chicks that I could safely ship to her?
Thanks!
I have a trio of hens, blue, black, splash, and two unrelated cockerels, I think they are 7 months old. A blue and a black. I personally think the black rooser is of better quality, larger, rounder....but so mean and rough on the ladies. He hasn't attacked me but has gone after others. I had...
Anyone have any opinion of gender, on what I suspect are roos. There are two BLRW...I have a hard time telling them apart! And the one Orp on the bottom of the page. Sorry for the through the fence pictures, they are a bit camera shy!