breeding

  1. D

    Breeding, culling and weights, can someone help me please?

    I'm planning on breeding my own dual purpose flock with some very specific goals and need some help from some of you experienced chicken BREEDERS who have culled and bred chickens for a while. I'm going to copy and paste what I posted on another thread to show you what I'm aiming for but my...
  2. D

    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    This is Chunky, a 10 week old cornish cross pullet from Meyer Hatchery. She is supposed to be in the freezer like all her other friends. These are her less lucky friends that already met their end as was the plan. 7 were processed just shy of 8 weeks and weighed 7ish pounds on average after...
  3. MyLittlePetShop

    Cross breed

    If I breed these two together, would they have pretty chicks?? Rooster silkie, hen bantam
  4. Kimballs Coops

    Lavender/Paint Silkie Genetics

    Hello! I’m new to this and am planning on breeding silkies next year. I’m trying to plan all my separate pens. I wanted to have white silkies and lavenders. So I was going to get a white split lavender rooster with white only girls. Then I saw paints and realize I really want those too! Some...
  5. Faisal12

    Breeding Suggestions?

    It’s Breeding Season Again! 🦚 I’m excited to hear your thoughts on what combinations I should try for breeding this season and what potential offspring I might get from these pairings! Here’s what I have: Males: White Pied White-Eyed BlackShoulder Pied White-Eyed India Blue Split to...
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    • breeding peafowl peafowl colors
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    • Forum: Peafowl
  6. Kristianio

    Rooster Behaviour

    First time posting so hopefully in the right place! Hi everyone, I just have a few questions about my rooster for people who have some rooster experience. Currently, I have 1 silkie rooster(10 months) and 2 hens, one barred rock hen(5 1/2) and a 3/4 bantam polish 1/4 cream legbar hen(9 months)...
  7. PMD PerformanceHorses

    Breeding Question

    If a Lavender Orpington roo was crossed with a Silver Laced hen, what breed/color would the chicks be? (not my pic)
  8. Y

    baby chick genetics

    So I have a rooster who is mixed with a silkie and a kikiriki hen. He has 5 toes and feathered feet on both legs because of his silkie side. I recently bred him with a kikiriki hen who has 4 toes, and no feathered feet. I was only able to get one chick out of it but the chick came out with 4...
  9. Slothinc

    Help me to pair birds for breeding!

    As an update: as of June 2025 my flock has had some changes and I only have two lavender silkie boys right now. So this thread isnt very relevant anymore, however I do plan on hatching eggs from some of these girls when their eggs are fertilized by the lavender boys. ******* Okay who would...
  10. AbuR

    The right fit?

    Hi all, I’m looking to replace a rooster that I got for my flock of 9 hens. He’s a French copper black maran who doesn’t seem to be breeding the hens at all bar one that I’ve seen him attempt to breed. Not sure how successful he was in doing it as I have yet to see the bullseye in any eggs. I’ve...
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    • breeding curious chicken help appreciated help appreciated! thank you
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  11. athomas718

    Clan Spiral breeding question

    So I am hoping to start spiral breeding for a few breeds and I was wondering; Do you keep the 4 clan coops as the breeding coops but put the breed not currently being bred in a different area so you can keep them together but put them with the rooster when it’s time to actually get fertilized...
  12. M

    First time hatching eggs from a broody chicken

    We got baby chicks last June from McMurray’s. We have 13 hens and one Rooster. Our bielefelder is broody laying on 12 eggs. How do you know what breed the baby chicks will be? Our hen breeds are bielefelder, Rhode Island Red, Red Star, Buff Orpington, Black Cochin, Ameraucana, Barred Rock and...
  13. Y

    tiny project

    So a year ago, I bred my kikiriki hen with my silkie rooster and I got one chick which is this rooster. His name is blue and he is half silkie and half kikiriki. As you can see, he has regular feathers like his mom but a comb like his dad, an extra finger on both feet like his dad, and feathered...
  14. K

    What color?

    So I am breeding Cochin bantams and I have four bantams. I have two buff hens and two red roosters. What would their offspring coloring be? I have their eggs in the incubator so I am just trying to get ready and predict their coloring.
  15. T

    What would a BCM roo Gold Laced Wyandotte be?

    My wife loves her GLW and we are looking from some breeding options for them. I have a bunch so we were going to split them into groups with different roos 😅 Thanks for any help!
  16. Pearlescent

    When will my hens start laying?

    I have 2 Turkey hens, a mother and A daughter, and my new Tom. Both hens started squatting about a month ago, but there have been no eggs yet. Both have bred. The mother, who started laying in February last year, was Bred on the 12th of march. And the other on the 10th. Both have stopped...
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    • breeding egg turkey turkeyegg turkeyhen
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Turkeys
  17. Dominique King

    Breeding?

    I have two roos I keep in my flock… A Jersey Giant x Barred Rock and a Jersey Giant x RIR. I have Wyandottes, RIR, Jersey Giants, and Dominiques. I am getting some Buff Orpington chicks as well as some more Wyandotte chicks. I am planning on breeding with the current hens I have with my two roos...
  18. Skibum

    Changing Roosters / Genetic Diversity in Closed Flock

    So for going on two years I have kept a closed flock. My decision was in part due to the fact that my first set of birds had some disease that eventually wiped out everyone by year two with my rooster being the only exception. So I restocked from a more reputable hatchery (Mt Healthy) and had...
    • Skibum
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    • backyard mix breeding chicks closed flock rainbow basket rooster
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  19. J

    Two Roos to Fight?

    Hello! I have two confirmed roosters in a flock of 31 five-week-old birds. I was told that two roosters will fight until they kill each other so you needed one or three, is this true? Would the size of the flock make it okay to keep two? The flock will be housed in a large coop with a large run...
  20. M

    What would I get if I bred a black Turken to an Ayam Cemani?

    Looking to create a fibro naked neck. If I breed a black turken hen to an ayam cemani rooster, would I get a NN ayam cemani? Also, if my ayam cemani rooster has leakage, would it alter the color of the offspring? Pic of my cemani roo.
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