Build your dream dozen(s)!

[AmCanyonStables]

Well, now I have to do math! Just kidding. It's funny, I was asking because I also have both EEs and Barred Rocks, and hope to go toward blue and blue barred birds that lay varied color eggs - I need blue eggs most, so I will order some of your Ameraucanas, and I will be thinking about the others. What I really need is a splash Ameraucana roo of my own, but they are really hard to find.
(I found one, but just could not justify paying over $100 with shipping for a roo!)
Anyway - I need to find the bator first - I will get back to you - thanks for all the good info!

 

[haTHOR]

great explanations of your program. thanks for being so detailed. it's very interesting.

which of your eggs would be likeliest to be a good setter?

 

[onthespot]

I have a java trying to go broody just today. Had to break a broody from a marans pen already, Have four silkies sharing a clutch right now, and those bantam cochins are pretty serious sitters too... my barred olive egger original hen is what I hatched out my lavender orpingtons under, so I'm guessing that whatever kind you like there is enough broodiness to do the job for you. I kept a turken just because someone told me what great broodies they are. She is going on two years old and has never been broody. The orpingtons have never gone broody, but they just started laying recently, so no surprises there. The muscovy pen has a broody sitting on eight eggs, due soon.

You pretty much can't go wrong with any of them. I don't keep anything that is super broody because mainly I want eggs, Well, except the silkies. That is their main job.

 

[haTHOR]

do you have any trouble keeping your silkies with your other birds or do you keep them separate?

 

[onthespot]

I keep them separate. I have kept them with my marans when I had tougher, hardier stock. They hardlly had any topknot and were kinda quick and wirey and could keep themselves okay in the flock. These are "better" ones and have bigger topknots, gentler dispositions, smaller frames, and are just more placid and docile and I don't think they would do well in a mixed flock. They would probably be okay with my bantam cochins, but not the large fowl varieties. I have had a couple of cross breeding "incidents" when I accidently left the silkie door open when the barred olive eggers were out, and the big barred roo bred a couple of my silkie hens. They seemed no worse for the wear, but I think over time they would get hurt from repeated breeding by a bird that big. And if I know anything about roosters, they breed repeatedly, LOL.

 

[haTHOR]

my incubator is not yet finished. or started.

let me apply some pressure to dh on that little matter and i'll be watching for any further sale/auction posts you have...i've got my heart set on your eggs!

 

[haTHOR]

i should say...will this be even possible in the near future? if not, i'll pay you now and order when the bator is done!

i'll be wanting
barred OOs (4)
blue OOs (4)
and AAs (4)