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zooweemama said:
Ok for all you advanced breeders - maybe you can help me see the results of this? I have Buff Orps and I have 1 pretty pair of little bantam blue laced wyandotte. I will have one Buff Orp and one Bantam BLW rooster of each to cover my flock. If my banty decides to mate with any of my Buff Orp girls- their offspring...will I be able to see right as chicks if they are mixed or not? Also any ideas on what the feathering might look like? I will eventually have a small breeding pen to manage this but a big coop comes first so I'd like to hope that only having 2 roosters will reduce my chances of barnyard mixes and my hope is that I will see right away as chicks if they are mixes- I can give them away later to keep my flock straight. (unless they are really pretty then I can add a couple to my egg laying flock lol)
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Your Wyandotte is blue laced, right? If so, it looks like you would get buff laced offspring. You can play with it here on the calculator:
http://home.kpn.nl/h.meijers69/kruising.html
 
CALI CHICK said:
I just wanted to make sure nobody wanted Mr. Puff again. If I don't hear from anyone today, I'll offer him on Craigslist tomorrow. He is free to any BYC member (Nor-Cal) that would like to give him a good home.

He is a perfectly healthy, splash silkie rooster....7 1/2 months old. He doesn't crow much at all and when he does it is short...........Leo Pierre (my other splash silkie rooster) has the dominant crow. But it's Mr. Puff that is always jumping on the girls.
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He has a mulberry, single comb so he is pet/breeder quality. (It's a recessive trait) He is a little shy, but a real sweetie!

Anyway, let me know........
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Aww so cute!! Good luck- hope you get a taker!
 
Happy Chooks said:
Your Wyandotte is blue laced, right? If so, it looks like you would get buff laced offspring. You can play with it here on the calculator:
http://home.kpn.nl/h.meijers69/kruising.html
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Oh wow. You give me a lot more credit than I deserve for understanding that. I don't understand any of that. I don't know what a blue laced chicken would be marked as with all those fancy markings. Nor what a Buff really is when you break it down into all these various...traits? :| I have a lot to learn!
 
Last random post from me this morning. My tea is gone anyway. Today we found some more eggs but this time they finally gravitated up into the lay boxes that are up high instead of the one on the floor they have been communally sharing. 2 eggs each in a different box- first time ever. Those Orps are branching out. Their eggs are so little right now. I need 3 more to make our first dozen chicken eggs. They are laying every other day. I don't seem to need to leave them locked up- they come into the coop to lay. And boy they make a ruckus to let us know they are laying eggs. Oh my! LOL
 
now I guess we know why there are no chickens in the wild... they call every predator to dinner every time they lay an egg.
 
So ducks lay about the same time as chickens- between 18-26 weeks generally. If I get some hatching eggs now that puts them into laying age around March/April right? Or is safer/smarter to wait until early Spring to get hatching eggs? This same thinking can be applied to chickens...I would like to hear from you all since you have been doing this for a while and this is our first year. Thanks guys!
 

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