breeding colored boilers?

[newchickens2009]

Do they live long enough to lay eggs and if so do they breed true? Are you able to hatch your own?

 

[ChikeeMomma]

Not sure that they would breed true, but I did keep some of my Dixie Rainbow pullets back and they lay wonderfully! I have an EE roo, so my eggs are fertilized -- just haven't incubated any nor do I have a broody. DR are considered to be like a colored ranger meat bird. Mine are some of my most friendly chickens. I have heard that they are hybrids, too. So they probably wouldn't breed true. Both the roos and pullets are beautiful, though.