Weeg
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I posted a thread earlier today about creating bantam Easter Eggers. The members were very helpful, and I believe I now have a plan. A friend of mine is using her flock to start a small breeding business. We were originally going to do it together, but I recently found out that my flock has AVL, a viral poultry disease, so I had to pull my flock from the project. Since I will be pulling the breeds I was going to use for the business, she wants to experiment with using her bantam roosters, and crossing them with her EE hens to create bantam Easter Eggers. She isn't comfortable with doing AI herself though, so I'll be helping with that, and logging the progress of the project.
The goal is to get bantam sized chickens, preferably with muffs and a beard (not necessary), that lay green or blue eggs. We have 3 EE hens to work with- Sugar, Spice and Chippet.
She has two bantam roosters- Diva who is a White Tailed Black Japanese bantam, and Tiny who's breed I'm not certain of. I'll post pictures of him in a separate thread and figure that out before I start the project. We'll be inseminating 2 hens I believe, each with a different rooster and see who produces the smallest offspring. We'll leg band the hens to show what rooster bred who, mark egg colors coinciding with the hens color, and leg band chicks that hatch out of the eggs.
After those chicks grow to maturity, we'll breed hens back to the bantam rooster who produced smaller offspring, and breed until we get the desired traits.
This project wont start for another 3 weeks since we'll have to separate the EE hens so they wont be exposed to other roosters who have been mating them. Thought I'd start it now so I could start logging my own progress. Feel free to follow along!
The goal is to get bantam sized chickens, preferably with muffs and a beard (not necessary), that lay green or blue eggs. We have 3 EE hens to work with- Sugar, Spice and Chippet.
She has two bantam roosters- Diva who is a White Tailed Black Japanese bantam, and Tiny who's breed I'm not certain of. I'll post pictures of him in a separate thread and figure that out before I start the project. We'll be inseminating 2 hens I believe, each with a different rooster and see who produces the smallest offspring. We'll leg band the hens to show what rooster bred who, mark egg colors coinciding with the hens color, and leg band chicks that hatch out of the eggs.
After those chicks grow to maturity, we'll breed hens back to the bantam rooster who produced smaller offspring, and breed until we get the desired traits.
This project wont start for another 3 weeks since we'll have to separate the EE hens so they wont be exposed to other roosters who have been mating them. Thought I'd start it now so I could start logging my own progress. Feel free to follow along!
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