5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[mstricer]

I also live in a cold area, this morning before going to work couldn't get run door open. All had to be fed and watered in their coops

 

[BoereMeisie]

i heard that when you breed RSLs the offspring will not nearly produce as many eggs as the parents do.

Yeah I also heard something among those lines, but isn't that when you breed a RSL hen to a RSL roo?? ... My curious side is screaming "go ahead" though... Nothing to lose I suppose ...

If they lay the same as the Silkies (2, sometimes 3 per week) I'd be happy I think RSL pullets and Silkie Roo will make some pretty cute babies!

 

[Pozees]

I am in CO, we just now reached 32 degrees today, and I have chicks in a brooder out in the coop which is not heated or insulated. They have their heat lamp and are doing well. There are only 5 chicks in there. I think the coldest it's been overnight since I put them out there was 21 degrees overnight, it's been down in the 20s a few nights in a row now, didn't get to 32 one day and barely 33 yesterday, probably about the same today. If I need to I can brood in the 4' crawl space under the house, which stays at 60 most of the year, that's where I brooded chicks last winter before we got the bigger coop finished.

 

[Pozees]

Yeah I also heard something among those lines, but isn't that when you breed a RSL hen to a RSL roo?? ... My curious side is screaming "go ahead" though... Nothing to lose I suppose ...

If they lay the same as the Silkies (2, sometimes 3 per week) I'd be happy I think RSL pullets and Silkie Roo will make some pretty cute babies!

I am very curious to see what they look like and how they perform, I'd probably try it once too. I have two pens of Silkies with 4 hens and a cock bird in each, and I've been getting 2-3 eggs per day from each pen, bless their little hearts.

 

[Scottyhorse]

Thanks guys for the opinions. Sounds doable

 

[ronott1]

Yeah I also heard something among those lines, but isn't that when you breed a RSL hen to a RSL roo?? ... My curious side is screaming "go ahead" though... Nothing to lose I suppose ...

If they lay the same as the Silkies (2, sometimes 3 per week) I'd be happy I think RSL pullets and Silkie Roo will make some pretty cute babies!

I am very curious to see what they look like and how they perform, I'd probably try it once too. I have two pens of Silkies with 4 hens and a cock bird in each, and I've been getting 2-3 eggs per day from each pen, bless their little hearts.

Hybrids breed back to what the base breeds were. They do lose production because Hybrid crosses increase production as well as making them easily sexed by color.

I would hatch them! It is great practice and you can sell them if you have too many chickens.

 

[tadpole98]

Sign me up!!

 

[ronott1]

Sign me up!!

Welcome to the Hatch a Long!

What are you hatching?

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: Going to try for some mottled cochins from westknollamy!

 

[ronott1]

Going to try for some mottled cochins from westknollamy!

I really like mottled patterns.