Buckeye X Cornish X breeding project. Third generation pics pg. 20

[Brunty_Farms]

More than likely I will be crossing the hens back to a Buckeye rooster. The male from this CX x Buckeye line has developed a sore on his foot. I'm hoping it heals, looks like his pad was burned a little bit because he likes to sleep on the floor. I'm teaching him to roost so hopefully that will help. Anyone else have this issue with heavy roosters? What to use on it? I have some antibiotics.... tylan 50 but not sure if it would help. I don't really like administering anything unless absolutely needed.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

that keel bone fact is so interesting.
Yay on the eggs jeff! so if I have it straight they are from your CX X BE then crossed back with BE? so would that be F2 then? or F3 because CX is already a cross or do you start counting when you are breeding back to same cross . . . I get lost and worry that I am quoting it wrong.
YOu would know more than me on this but I had a very experienced breeder tell me that pullet eggs are actually better; that the chicks are a tad smaller but catch up in about two weeks, and that they are more vigorous . . . do you feel the same way?
I can't get over how much your CX x BE pulletts/cockerals look like my CX x BCM, it's like looking at pics of my own birds.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

With my experience the broilers I get that are from pullet eggs, you can tell because the chicks look like quail chicks.... but they don't do near as good in the first week to 10 days. After about two weeks they do catch up but it's usually a bigger loss from pullet eggs than regular eggs. This is just from my experience with chicks from hatcheries and the broiler chicks.

I'm thinking that the crosses would be an F1 mated to a buckeye. Then their offspring would be an F2 but that's just me thinking... but I'm not sure... Steve? LOL...

 

[Jared77]

I'm thinking that the crosses would be an F1 mated to a buckeye. Then their offspring would be an F2 but that's just me thinking... but I'm not sure... Steve? LOL..

I agree. Your CX and Buckeye parents were F0. (F Zero) Their chicks are F1. Its not just dependent on a hybrid either. If you bred Buckeye to Buckeye their offspring would be F1 also. The F(then number) purely designates what generation not where they came from or how they were produced. Its more commonly used to keep track of linebreeding so you know who's out of who. At least that's how I use it.​

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

ah, great info!

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Katy-

So your BCM crosses look like mine? That's odd... kinda interesting though. Have you hatched pullet eggs from your f1 birds yet? I'm curious to see how they would preform on smaller numbers. Every time I have the pullet chicks it's with 400 of them and it's almost like they need some extra care. I'm thinking that with only hatching a few that they would do ok. It just kills me to see eggs sitting in the nest when I'm only three weeks away from seeing what the next cross would be like.

 

[SteveH]

Sorry I heve not been keepimg up , too busy . Jeff I had a CX cockeral with bumblefoot and it eventually got better without me lancing or treating with combiotics , but the sole cushion stayed large and eventually the other leg got sore from carrying extra weight . Its a type of staff infection that is common in chicken's foot injuries .


I think parent lines are designateg with a P , resulting crosses with an F1 [ fidel 1 ? ] , breeding two F1s together gives you an F2 , breeding something from a P line to an F gives you a B1 [ backcross 1 ] . Its been too long to remember with certainty

; shoot , I can't even remember what I did yesterday

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[KatyTheChickenLady]

ok so bird A x bird B = AB/ f1?
then AB X C =ABC/ F2
then ABC X D = ABCD/ F3
then ABCD X E = ABCDE/ F4

if this is acurate then I am currently hatching F3's with 3 F4's coming up to bat

I am sure I've got it wrong somewhere but whew!

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

then steve has to go throw in P's and B's jeeze!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]