So does anyone have an educated guess on what these crosses would make?
The black roo with the splash hen
The grey roo with the splash hen
The grey roo with any other hen
The splash roo with splash hen
The splash roo with any of the other hens.
I currently have too many ALL BLACK...
I love the guessing game too.
During spring and summer (because my garden isn't fenced off yet) my chickens unfortunately have a smaller area to roam, unless I phyically one by one relocated them to a giant snail patch in the yard....
During fall and winter they have a much larger area to...
Yes I agree, hatch more babies....problem is space with three roosters that are fighting...so currently two of the Roos are in what I consider too small of a space for true happiness...
...I need the LOVE COOP for Brody mama to hatch babies....
Soooo the Roos are likely going to chicken dinner...
Here is the other rooster I have to work with....
He's a brother to the black one above....
(So I have a black Orpington/EE mix, a blue Orpington/EE mix and a Americana splash for roosters) and here is a pic of the ladies....
Here are the two I have trapped in the "LOVE COOP"
He's mostly black, but has a lot of brown/red on his neck. (His dad was a pure blue Orpington and mom was an tan colored EE)
She is a pure splash Ameracauna (although dirty and needs a bath!...note brownish tan dirt on her) becasue she is...
This is what our blue Orpington looked like...(had to switch him out for a blue splash Ameracauna because the blue orpington was too agressive and attacked my kids, he has since become chicken dinner) but we incubated some of his eggs that were mixed with EE hens and the rusults were mostly...