If you cross a pea comb chicken with a single comb - what type comb will the chicks have? How about rose comb with single comb - or - pea comb and rose comb? What comb is dominant?
If you cross a Buckeye Rooster to a Barred Rock Hen - would you end up with a sexed link chick the same way as if you had used a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire?
I have a question......
I realize a Cornish Cross is a meat bird, and most live only a few weeks before they are slaughtered for meat.
I also realize that it is very difficult for these birds to live to 6 months unless they are free ranged or fed extremely little.
However - it is possible...
I saw an ad on eBay for hatching eggs from a breed called - Delaware Giant. Does anyone here have any experience with these? Is this a strain of Delaware that gets unusually large? Is this a Delaware x Jersey Giant or some such? Or is this a regular Delaware suddenly endowed with a...
Who is a good breeding resource for Exhibition Quality LARGE Speckled Sussex, hopefully that maintains good laying ability? I have heard that many or most of the hatcheries stock is somewhat undersized, and perhaps not up to breed standards.
I would like to ask the members here their opinion.
Who do you think has a very good strain of (hopefully) Show Quality
Rhode Island Red and/or Barred Plymouth Rock
that also LAY well?
I realize that in most cases - production strains tend to have been bred for laying, and show strains...
I have a question that hopefully others here can help answer.
I have been trying to research exactly what breed or breeds would make the best free range chickens. I consistently come up with Dominique and Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Rocks.
Now this said it would seem to me that the Black...