3cats2acresand1Hen
Chirping
- Feb 22, 2025
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Hello everybody, thank you for welcoming me into the flock!
From my handle, you can tell that I have 3 cats and 2 acres but the 1 Hen is my 6 year old grandson... Hen! It's Hebrew and means Yahs favor...he is my darling Hen
I have a back yard flock of 16 that I am contemplating getting a rooster for. I'm considering my options on which breed. He will have to be sweet, that's my number 1 concern or he'll be dinner. I have 5 sexlinks, 3 Isa browns, 2 Sapphire skies, 2 Black astralorps, a leghorn, Brahma, buff orpington and olive egger. I'd like to sell their fertile eggs for backyard mix hatching eggs, I sell their eggs now for eating and have gotten request for hatching eggs too.
I have a shed type coop up by my house and at the back of my property, I have 3 cattle panel coops that I'm turning into a breeding station for raising American Bresse for dual purpose. I just purchased 12 hatching eggs from quail 2020 they have green fire farms stock from 2017. I'm so excited to start on this journey. My incubator is running and getting ready for their arrival!!
Since I'll be breeding them, I wondered if having one of the American bresse roosters in with them as a backup for my breeding program would be better than a heritage breed for my mixed flock as I was considering a buff orpington, leghorn or black astralorp...I'm leaning towards buff orpington because I hear they're pretty calm. I'm not sure if the other breeds temperament especially American Bresse since they're new to me. Of my hens I only have issues with the Brahma and 1 of the sapphire skies. I've had to pin them down several times.. I can't imagine what the roos would be like!
I'm glad to be here and look forward to hearing what you think.
Angela
From my handle, you can tell that I have 3 cats and 2 acres but the 1 Hen is my 6 year old grandson... Hen! It's Hebrew and means Yahs favor...he is my darling Hen
I have a back yard flock of 16 that I am contemplating getting a rooster for. I'm considering my options on which breed. He will have to be sweet, that's my number 1 concern or he'll be dinner. I have 5 sexlinks, 3 Isa browns, 2 Sapphire skies, 2 Black astralorps, a leghorn, Brahma, buff orpington and olive egger. I'd like to sell their fertile eggs for backyard mix hatching eggs, I sell their eggs now for eating and have gotten request for hatching eggs too.
I have a shed type coop up by my house and at the back of my property, I have 3 cattle panel coops that I'm turning into a breeding station for raising American Bresse for dual purpose. I just purchased 12 hatching eggs from quail 2020 they have green fire farms stock from 2017. I'm so excited to start on this journey. My incubator is running and getting ready for their arrival!!
Since I'll be breeding them, I wondered if having one of the American bresse roosters in with them as a backup for my breeding program would be better than a heritage breed for my mixed flock as I was considering a buff orpington, leghorn or black astralorp...I'm leaning towards buff orpington because I hear they're pretty calm. I'm not sure if the other breeds temperament especially American Bresse since they're new to me. Of my hens I only have issues with the Brahma and 1 of the sapphire skies. I've had to pin them down several times.. I can't imagine what the roos would be like!
I'm glad to be here and look forward to hearing what you think.
Angela
and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!
