BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[stryker]

Here are some photos of my Buckeye crosses. They are around 29 weeks old.
Buckeye/Cornish cross- won't have to worry about freezing wattles and combs with this hen.




Buckeye/Cornish cross cockerels- legs could be a bit better yellow, not as good as straight Buckeye.

Buckeye/Cornish Crosses are nice and broad in the back. Leg length was variable, from quite long to quite short.


A Buckeye/Cornish cross hen. Exactly what I was hoping for.


My #1 choice of the Buckeye/cornish cockerels.


This is Lucky, the Buckeye/Red sex link cockerel. He was not supposed to be part of the breeding program but he's such a nice fellow, I like his conformation and he's good with the hens so.........

THAT IS THE BIRD THAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!! Very nice birds.

 

[South OH Chicks]

Here is the deal. I have ISA browns right now. I am wanting to breed my own line of chickens for egg production. If I were to cross a RIR rooster to a white leghorn hen. Do you think I would have a sex linked egg laying machine? Im concerned with high production.

 

[FaerieChicken]

Here are some photos of my Buckeye crosses. They are around 29 weeks old.
Buckeye/Cornish cross- won't have to worry about freezing wattles and combs with this hen.




Buckeye/Cornish cross cockerels- legs could be a bit better yellow, not as good as straight Buckeye.

Buckeye/Cornish Crosses are nice and broad in the back. Leg length was variable, from quite long to quite short.


A Buckeye/Cornish cross hen. Exactly what I was hoping for.


My #1 choice of the Buckeye/cornish cockerels.


This is Lucky, the Buckeye/Red sex link cockerel. He was not supposed to be part of the breeding program but he's such a nice fellow, I like his conformation and he's good with the hens so.........

OH MY GOSH They are very handsome and beautiful! I love their look and colors. That Buckeye/RSL cross, he is a looker!

Are these all your First Gen of crossing a Buckeye to a Cornish? And how do the genetics work for body size/type, is it the roo over hen (Buckeye Roo over Cornish Hen)

 

[draye]

Here are some photos of my Buckeye crosses. They are around 29 weeks old. Buckeye/Cornish cross- won't have to worry about freezing wattles and combs with this hen. Buckeye/Cornish cross cockerels- legs could be a bit better yellow, not as good as straight Buckeye. Buckeye/Cornish Crosses are nice and broad in the back. Leg length was variable, from quite long to quite short. A Buckeye/Cornish cross hen. Exactly what I was hoping for. My #1 choice of the Buckeye/cornish cockerels. This is Lucky, the Buckeye/Red sex link cockerel. He was not supposed to be part of the breeding program but he's such a nice fellow, I like his conformation and he's good with the hens so.........

This last rooster looks great. Now kneed to find one like him.

 

[dfr1973]

@GabrielBane re: lot of dust bathing. Put out wood ash and some poultry dust (Garden & Poultry Dust at TSC) in case they have mites. Also, around here the mosquitoes are horrible still since the hurricane and they do carry fowl pox each autumn. Is the 24% chick starter Dumor? If so, that is all-vegetable protein. I also supplement with soaked/fermented scratch (bought at Hillendale's Feed Mill up in Lake Butler) where the starter culture is from a Probios general livestock probiotic powder. Once the chicks learn what the fermented scratch tastes like, they go for it like candy. Sometimes I buy the bag of dried mealworms at TSC. Great supplement for molt, although I have discovered live mealworms under the rabbit cages this year.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

OH MY GOSH They are very handsome and beautiful! I love their look and colors. That Buckeye/RSL cross, he is a looker!

Are these all your First Gen of crossing a Buckeye to a Cornish? And how do the genetics work for body size/type, is it the roo over hen (Buckeye Roo over Cornish Hen)

Thank you!
Yes these are first generation crosses. The rooster was the Buckeye, the hens were dark cornish. The parents were not exhibition but were better than hatchery birds. The crosses for the most part were right down the middle in characterisitics but I did get one very strange off-type rooster from that cross- a very leggy, gamy looking fellow.The Buckeye/sex link crosses were a nice surprise, they trend more towards the Buckeye in body shape.

Here is the deal. I have ISA browns right now. I am wanting to breed my own line of chickens for egg production. If I were to cross a RIR rooster to a white leghorn hen. Do you think I would have a sex linked egg laying machine? Im concerned with high production.

To get sex linked offspring from a red rooster and a "white" hen, you need the silver gene in the hen. So if you bred a RIR rooster to a breed that carries the silver gene such as a light sussex hen, the pullet chicks would be reddish, and grow up to be red hens, while the cockerel chicks would be a paler yellow and grow up to be mostly white roosters, probably with red and/or black feathers as well. The white leghorn may have silver, but it's dominant and/or recessive white as well so that would mess up the sexing of the chicks by colour. Chickens that are white with black, such as Columbian wyandottes, carry the silver gene.
Either way, your parent stock should come from a good production laying line.
Your crosses however would not lay anywhere near as well as the ISA browns. You could cross your ISA browns, for example use an ISA brown rooster to cross with a production leghorn. Your subsequent generations would still be good egg layers of tinted or white eggs. These would not be sex links though.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

I keep my chicks and poults separate, and then I keep everyone separate from the older chickens for the time being. :/ I put the picked-on Sulmtaler with our pair of two-week old Spitzhaubens, that way she's not completely alone. We've started referring to the poor thing as patches. I'm gonna boil an egg shortly for the boys to dis-courage anymore schenanigans.

Edit to add;
Separated the little girl from the Spitz just because they seemed to be distredd being away from the other chicks, our little patches is acting odd (I notice she's doing a LOT of dust bathing behavior ever since I separated her into a new brooder for herself. I'm just paranoid, but I hope she's fine. :X)

Maybe the no pick stuff is burning a bit? I've noticed that with tea tree oil.

 

[GabrielBane]

@GabrielBane re: lot of dust bathing. Put out wood ash and some poultry dust (Garden & Poultry Dust at TSC) in case they have mites. Also, around here the mosquitoes are horrible still since the hurricane and they do carry fowl pox each autumn. Is the 24% chick starter Dumor? If so, that is all-vegetable protein. I also supplement with soaked/fermented scratch (bought at Hillendale's Feed Mill up in Lake Butler) where the starter culture is from a Probios general livestock probiotic powder. Once the chicks learn what the fermented scratch tastes like, they go for it like candy. Sometimes I buy the bag of dried mealworms at TSC. Great supplement for molt, although I have discovered live mealworms under the rabbit cages this year.

That is the EXACT food I'm using. I'll boil some eggs STAT! Thank you so much for the suggestion.

Maybe the no pick stuff is burning a bit? I've noticed that with tea tree oil.

That's what the SO said. She slept fine and looks to be in good spirits this morning.
Side-note: Holy cow those Buckeye x's are gorgeous.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

That is the EXACT food I'm using. I'll boil some eggs STAT! Thank you so much for the suggestion.
That's what the SO said. She slept fine and looks to be in good spirits this morning.
Side-note: Holy cow those Buckeye x's are gorgeous.

Glad to hear your little chick is feeling better! And thanks!

 

[roodawg]

I have a young cockerel that I believe to be Ameraucana/Austalorp nix ( EE). My intention is to breed him with blue and splash Ameraucana s to improve egg production. Will offspring produce blue eggs or will they be green?

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Ameraucana chicks