- Nov 30, 2012
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Howdy chicken peeps!
(thumbs up for the geeky chicken phrase and dancing bunny!!)
My latest experiment with combining breeds has worked! The babies are officially hens/roosters, so I can see what they will look like...
I put a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster and a Sumatra hen inside the breeding pen. I got 6 eggs, all what looked like fertile. 1 didn't hatch, and another one died an hour after it hatched
The surviving four were 1 hen and 3 roosters. I sold 2 roosters to people I knew would give them good homes (now we have 10 roosters in our flock. We don't need more.) The hen is a beautiful long fan-tailed, silver laced hen. I named her Calyn (pronounced Cay-leen). The rooster has the same feather pattern, but white hackles that stand up at the slightest noise. His tail is a whopping 3 feet long (NO JOKE!). I named him Badger.
My next experiment was putting a White Polish rooster and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hen in another breeding pen. I got 5 eggs, 3 didn't look fertile Just one hatched. The survivor is a hen 
She is the most beautiful hen I have ever seen. She has a big, floppy snow-white crest, and is sleek and tightly-feathered. Her feathers are blue laced red, and her eyes are deep, dark brown. I named her May.
Any ideas, Chicken Peeps, what other breed-combining experiments I should conduct?
F.Y.I., it was technically my mom selling and breeding the birds
My latest experiment with combining breeds has worked! The babies are officially hens/roosters, so I can see what they will look like...
I put a Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster and a Sumatra hen inside the breeding pen. I got 6 eggs, all what looked like fertile. 1 didn't hatch, and another one died an hour after it hatched
The surviving four were 1 hen and 3 roosters. I sold 2 roosters to people I knew would give them good homes (now we have 10 roosters in our flock. We don't need more.) The hen is a beautiful long fan-tailed, silver laced hen. I named her Calyn (pronounced Cay-leen). The rooster has the same feather pattern, but white hackles that stand up at the slightest noise. His tail is a whopping 3 feet long (NO JOKE!). I named him Badger.My next experiment was putting a White Polish rooster and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hen in another breeding pen. I got 5 eggs, 3 didn't look fertile
Just one hatched. The survivor is a hen She is the most beautiful hen I have ever seen. She has a big, floppy snow-white crest, and is sleek and tightly-feathered. Her feathers are blue laced red, and her eyes are deep, dark brown. I named her May.Any ideas, Chicken Peeps, what other breed-combining experiments I should conduct?
F.Y.I., it was technically my mom selling and breeding the birds
