Breeding Question's?

[Ladypoison]

1. Can you make a standard chicken into a bantam? If so does anyone know how?
2. How can a person make/create a new breed or improve on a old breed?
3.Which parent makes the size of the chick?
4.What is Dun?

 

[Kevin565]

1. Can you make a standard chicken into a bantam? If so does anyone know how?

Yes. I always advise breeding bantam roos over standard hens not the other way around.

2. How can a person make/create a new breed or improve on a old breed?
Can you make a new breed? Yes However just breeding them once doesn't make a new breed. It takes good stock and multiple generations before you can even consider them a new breed. Please DO NOT try to improve a old breed by mixing birds. You'll just be mudding up the selective gene pool for that breed.

3.Which parent makes the size of the chick?

They will both play a role in determining the chicks size.

4.What is Dun?

I have no clue

 

[Ladypoison]

Thanks for the info.

 

[cgmccary]

Dun describes to a color of a cow or horse which is a dull grayish brown. This is probably what you are wanting to know.

As a verb, dun can mean to repeatedly ask someone for money in an annoying way.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Dun describes to a color of a cow or horse which is a dull grayish brown. This is probably what you are wanting to know.

As a verb, dun can mean to repeatedly ask someone for money in an annoying way.

Dun is an allele of dominant white that dilutes eumelanin (black pigment) into a chocolate colour.

 

[cgmccary]

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Oh, well that is probably the definition that fits this site & the question. LOL. I know my Dexter cows come in three colors: black, red and dun.

I also tell opponents' attorneys to "quit dunning my client for money."