40 chickens and math.

[Coopscraft]

Greetings y’all. I am raising chickens. Just got started on 1/3 acre in western Oregon. I plan to do a little breeding just for fun and collect a few dozen eggs a day. Right now I have
7 white leghorn pullets
2 blue Saphire pullets
5 americanas pullets
8 copper dominant pullets
2 Speckled Sussex pullets
5 novegens pullets
9 mature mongrel hens(handmedowns)
2 old araucana(handmedowns)
3 mongrel roosters. One seems like he might be a purebred RI red. One might have some Delaware, and the third is a complete mystery but reminiscent of Columbian coloration.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Welcome to BYC! You have quite the assortment of chickens!

 

[gtaus]

Welcome to the BYC forums. Have you decided on what breeds you want to start breeding, or are you content with your "mongrel" roosters and whatever happens with your nice assortment of hens?

I might try to breed some chickens next year, but I would want to try to raise some purebreds, and I have not decided which breed would work best for me where I live. Hope to hear more from you in the future.

 

[Leahs Coop]

Hello, and a warm welcome to Backyard Chickens! It's great to have you here with us.
I love all of the varieties you have!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Aloha, welcome to BYC, glad you joined in and congrats on your new flock. Sounds like a good plan and lots of feathered fun.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[BlueBaby]

Hello, and welcome! Glad that you joined! Good luck with your flock!

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Nice to have you here!

 

[Coopscraft]

Welcome to the BYC forums. Have you decided on what breeds you want to start breeding, or are you content with your "mongrel" roosters and whatever happens with your nice assortment of hens?

I might try to breed some chickens next year, but I would want to try to raise some purebreds, and I have not decided which breed would work best for me where I live. Hope to hear more from you in the future.

My breeding goal is to select for ever improving egg/feed conversion while maintaining a wide variety of colors and patterns. That’s why most of the pullets I bought are advertised as highly productive breeds or hybrids. My wife likes the Delaware so we’ll keep him for at least a round of hatchlings. The rhodies are known as good roosters for several different egg emphasis hybrids so he gets to stay a while if he recovers from his staphylococcal infection. (Had it lanced and medicated on the 6th) the other rooster will likely get replaced with a leghorn. I am planning to set up a spiral mating system with three clans.

 

[gtaus]

My breeding goal is to select for ever improving egg/feed conversion while maintaining a wide variety of colors and patterns...

Wow, that's fantastic. Hope you are successful and maybe someday have a breed of chickens named after you. I won't pretend to understand how long or how hard it would be to create a new breed(s), but I wish you success.