Breeding advice needed! Over in UK

[dean26]

Hello to everyone!

I need as many peoples opinions as I can get! My local farm has lots of free range chickens, the chickens are always to be found in there own little groups.There is a group of 2 bantam cockerals and 6 old english game bantam hens that spend there days together around the farm. I have found someone who will incubate eggs for me and keep the cockerals that hatch, as I only want 4-5 bantam hens for my garden.

My Question is will the chicks resemble there mothers if they are female? Im going to ask the farm if for a fee they will enclose the group seperately over night for a 2-3 nights so that the eggs collected will definitely be from the hens i like. Also there are lots of sized cockerals around the farm and i would imagine they may only occasionally mate with the hens, the hens are very hard for most cockerals to catch in the big fields!, does anyone have advice for me about what the chicks will turn out like?

If i didnt like the types and colours of the bantams so much i would go to a breeder but ive never been someone simple!

Any advice welcomed.

Dean Alex.

 

[Habibs Hens]

tbh mate you have asked so many things that cant be answered in a simple reply

your asking about genetic, autosexing

and many other aspects

its not just that simple i'm afraid


only certain chicken breeds will be autosexing

and then you have hidden genes that can show up that arnt even part of the family free as such


~Your actually better off just buying a few birds with the colouration and sex you desire

 

[dean26]

Im strugggling to find someone fairly local that has the kind of birds im looking for colours etc (I kept bantams for a time before and am very sentimental about that breed)

Thanks for reply Habibs hens.