I have a lavender cuckoo roo over solid lavender hen. I'm getting both cuckoo and solids which tells me he is single barred. This makes it hard to sell young chicks bc I'm not sure until they feather out if they are cuckoo or solid. I'm not going to continue with this breeding bc of this...
Does anyone have pictures of this cross? I'm curious what it looks like. I have a random but beautiful self blue oegb and I have 2 serama pens and I was curious about tossing her in with them since I don't have a place for her and she was given to me. So if you have pictures of this cross I...
Ok I have white French marans, I added Easter eggers into the pen so I could get olive eggers. I have just hatched out my second batch. I expected to get all dark chicks, when I have ended up with both black chicks and yellow chicks, yay for variety. From the first batch of 5 which are 3wks...
Interesting!! I would be curious to hear if anyone else has heard of that too??? Not an option I thought of that it would result in a variety of olive blue and brown.
Ok I hatched out some olive eggers recently. What can be done with the olive egger roosters that are sure to result from this batch? If bred to an olive egger hen will they continue to produce olive egger offspring? So would it make sense to offer for free with a pullet? I don't want to give...
Thanks @junebuggena helps me a lot I'm taking lots of notes so in the future I can do it myself
What are your thoughts on the blues I posted just above the blacks?
Blue orpingons 6wks old
Last two pics same bird
My guess(it's my first batch so I'm studying lol) and honestly most of my guessing is based on comb color/size. I've got 16 in this batch and almost all of them have waddles that have quite a bit of color. So I'm looking at combs mostly to...
Yes almost all 16 of my 4.5 week olds have waddles with some pink but only 2 have color starting in the combs. So I'm praying waddle color is not as important as comb color??? Lol praying big time cause if not I've got probably 15 cockerels and 1 pullets. Just can't be true. But I also think...
First off how NICE AND HELPFUL of you to do this thread and your actually keeping up!!! Thats awesome. I have 16 4.5wk old chicks. My first batch hatching myself, with new batches coming. But this being my 1st self hatched group that I am watching and studying and trying to really learn a...
So I have several different colors and a few different breeds. My eggs are all marked so I know what they are. But after they hatch they start moving about the incubator with the others. Is there a way to mark them or separate them within the incubator so they dont mix up? I know mini leg...
Makes sense. Unfortunately white marans with good egg color are going to be very difficult to find. So I'll likely just sell mine and move to something else. Thanks for the info
Ok @Chooks man one of my white marans laid an egg today for the first time and it was only a 3. Still waiting on the other girl to see her egg color. What would I need to do to improve egg color in the white marans?? I have a feeling it's going to be long and complicated in which case I'll...
What would I get by putting a lavender cuckoo Orpington roo over a solid chocolate Orpington hen
I've read a bunch here as well as other websites after googling it.
I think I understand :
Barred roo/solid hen will give
Barred males, barred females, and solid males females. Correct? Or no...