mixing breeds

  1. Z

    Crested Cream legbar rooster or Araucana?

    Hi everyone! I have mixed flock of hens, and I'm planning on trying to hatch some eggs next year, for fun, not for selling. My goal is to have beautiful colours of eggshells. My current flock has 2 araucanas, 2 cream legbars (not purebred but pretty close), 2 leghorns, 1 marans 1 olive egger...
  2. TheBirdBabe

    War or peace between new chickens...?

    I have 15-18 chickens in a coop. Eight are mature hens, three are mature roosters & the other seven are chicks (sex tbd). These are all bantam sized chickens. We are looking in to building an actual poultry barn soon that would be able to house LOADS of all sorts of birds! I would love to throw...
    • TheBirdBabe
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    • chickens ducks geese mixing ages mixing breeds mixing chickens and ducks mixing flocks mixing species poultry together
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  3. Madhava

    How long should I isolate a breed to make sure their babies are of that kind?

    Hi! I have 2 breeds of chickens: Lavender Orpingtons and Black Marans. They all commingle together as a big family. Each of the breeds have a rooster so I have 2 roosters total. I'd like to know how long do I need to isolate one breed to make sure that the fertile eggs are of that specific...
  4. N

    mixing breeds Egyptian Fayoumis with Rhode island reds

    Hello everyone! I am planning out my coop and breeds to get, and I am just wondering how will these 2 breeds get along? I understand that Egyptian fayoumis are a skitch bird, and tend to be not so friendly to humans, but i am wondering what are they like with other breeds of chicken? Also, how...
  5. B

    Please help!

    Hi all, I’m new to keeping chickens I hve 3 speckled Sussex and 3 silkies. Last week I adopted a 3 year old Rhode Island Red introduced her slowly spending limited time with my other 6 chickens. How ever on checking on my chickens tonight I’ve noticed this on my silkies neck! 😢. The Rhode...
  6. Casa de Quail

    Raising different breeds together?

    Hey peeps, I’m new to raising quail and I LOVE it! I’m learning a lot...and yet I still feel like I have a million questions. Today’s question...can I raise chukar with my quail? Assuming the answer is no, due to chukar being too aggressive, what CAN I successfully raise with quail? Thank you...
  7. FatMamma

    Mixing breeds

    I don’t think I would have been able to keep my babies alive and healthy without this website and everyone’s knowledge... I do have a question... I’m looking to get more females for my males, the two males are Cayuga’s, does it matter on what kind of females I get them or do I need to get them...
    • FatMamma
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    • Forum: Ducks
  8. mariac

    Mixing breeds - will they get on?

    I currently have a flock of 5 standard laying hens. Having recently lost my lovely cockerel "Brian" I was talking to a friend about how I miss having him around and she has offered me a pair of ornamental bantam breeds (a silkie hen and a cochin cockerel). I would love to add them to my flock...
  9. Roger98

    Mixing Bantams with regular chicks

    I have a few concerns because I just brought 8 bantams home to add to the 6 chicks I have already. One of them is a silkie and already is being pulled and dragged by a bigger chick by its feet. I separated her and I'm not sure what to do about that. The other problem I have is that one of the...
  10. Jennysuey

    Sad pekin drake

    We had two pekins we raised from babies, one hen, Snoopy, and one drake, Gloopy (named by our 3 year old son). Snoopy met a terrible end a few nights ago from a predator, it was a hard loss, really awful attack. Gloopy has been so depressed and shaken almost since then. We've fixed the issue...
    • Jennysuey
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    • depressed duck duck death mixing breeds
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    • Forum: Ducks
  11. ben0125

    What age to mix silkies with flock

    I have two chicken coops, one prefab one for my Silkies and one for my 6 month old chickens, and the biggest ones sleep in the trees. I Need to know when to put the Silkies in with the bigger chickens. They have seen but not touched eachother for over a month now but I'm still not very sure...
  12. Liz Birdlover

    Share your Sebastopol Goose or Royal Palm Turkey experience with Chickens/Roo's...Good Peacekeepers?

    I've heard from a few people that Sebastopols are sweet natured, congenial geese that have not only gotten along with chickens, but that they actually intervened with the occasional Rooster squabbles, keeping peace in the barnyard. Can anyone please share their experience with this scenario? I...
    • Liz Birdlover
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    • mixing breeds royal palm turkey sebastopol geese
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Geese
  13. Deborah Farinet

    UPSTATE NEW YORK NEW TO CHICKENS IN MY YARD

    OK, first post: raised kids, dogs, cats, fish, reptiles and gardens. Only ate from the garden. Not sure I could eat a pet, but I love yummy fresh eggs and know their other by-product is great for my gardens...so here I am. Recently purchased rural land in Cortland County, and once there is a...
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