Chicken x breeding with a purpose

[ronott1]

Crele Penedesenca make great OE eggs too if you can find them that is

 

[CassiJo87]

Sorry, this is confusing to me. My brain kind of hurts from work today haha. If you could list it out like example below I would find it easier to follow. But the point I'm trying to make is if you breed first generation hybrids then you will get the meat and egg vigor both in the offspring and don't need all the separate pens. Maybe separate by generation or just mark them. A hybrid bcm x BR or bcm x SLW should give you good layers and a decent amount of meat on the cockerels and they should grow out quickly so its a dual purpose bird. BCM X EE would make a nice olive egger. So if you want straight up blue eggs then you just need to separate the EE. Otherwise, keep everyone covered by BCM. If you can't tell your current sexlinked eggs from your pure bred eggs for egg collection purposes then just keep them separated until you are done collecting. Does that make sense?
Pen 1: bcm x bcm
Pen 2: bcm x BR
Pen 3: Ameraucana x EE
etc.

Thank you

 

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