Cross Breeding?

[Faith Lynn]

I am all new to this chicken owning and wanting to breed some beautiful chickens... But I dont know of rules are different for hens and roosters from male dogs and female dogs...

I show and breed dogs, American Akitas is my breeds. But I dont know how chickens work for breeding exactly.

I know there can be chicken cross breeds, but is there some breeds that chickens cant be crossed with?

My begining flock is 16 chicks, 5 different breeds. And here soon I will be buying a pure bred game rooster with 4 game rooster hens from a friend up the road who breeds game roosters....

I have Rock, silkie, Rhode Island Red, and a white sultan chick.... could they, of they are all hens, breed with my pure bread game fowl?

 

[Peppercorngal]

If you have a rooster he can be the dad of any number of your hen's chicks. So, yes, the game fowl can fertilize the eggs of all those hens. You will get different results with the different hens. The dominant gene of the rooster will be seen in the chicks. Could be color, could be feathered legs, etc. I'm not good with genetics, you may want to post on the genetic forum if you want exact information. Good Luck!

 

[aart]

Any chicken can mate with any chicken.....the offspring will all be mixes/crosses/mutts.
If you want pure breed games, just hatch those eggs...might have to separate hens to gather them.
What are your goals?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I know there can be chicken cross breeds, but is there some breeds that chickens cant be crossed with?

Not really. With some crosses, like a huge Jersey Giant with a tiny bantam, you may run into physical size issues, but even then you can use AI.

I have Rock, silkie, Rhode Island Red, and a white sultan chick.... could they, of they are all hens, breed with my pure bread game fowl?

Silkies are typically bantams, Sultans are fairly small even if they are not bantam, but a Game rooster is relatively small too. I don't anticipate any size issues there.

Since you say you are new to chickens I'll copy this. This is between mature chickens, when they go through adolescence it can get pretty rough. The main reason I'm including this is the part about the hen squatting to get the rooster's weight into the ground through her body, not just her legs.


Typical mating behavior between mature consenting adults.

The rooster dances for a specific hen. He lowers one wing and sort of circles her. This signals his intent.

The hen squats. This gets her body onto the ground so the rooster’s weight goes into the ground through her entire body and not just her legs. That way she can support a much heavier rooster without hurting her joints.

The rooster hops on and grabs the back of her head. The head grab helps him get in the right position to hit the target and helps him to keep his balance, but its major purpose is to tell the hen to raise her tail out of the way to expose the target. A mating will not be successful if she does not raise her tail and expose the target. The head grab is necessary.

The rooster touches vents and hops off. This may be over in the blink of an eye or it may take a few seconds. But when this is over the rooster’s part is done.

The hen then stands up, fluffs up, and shakes. This fluffy shake gets the sperm into a special container inside the hen near where the egg starts its internal journey through her internal egg making factory.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

If your new to chickens I would say just enjoy them for awhile and see which breed you like the best. When I was new to chickens I had a totally different breed preference than I do now.

I thought I was going to like blue egg layers, and the more rare extra dark brown brown egg layers. Turned out that wasn't for me. Also had a gorgeous game rooster that at first I thought was going to be awesome. That little pain in the neck was always teaching his hens that it was more fun to sleep in the trees than in the coop! He also enjoyed attacking my toddler. So, beautiful as he was, he had to go.

 

[Faith Lynn]

If your new to chickens I would say just enjoy them for awhile and see which breed you like the best. When I was new to chickens I had a totally different breed preference than I do now.

I thought I was going to like blue egg layers, and the more rare extra dark brown brown egg layers. Turned out that wasn't for me. Also had a gorgeous game rooster that at first I thought was going to be awesome. That little pain in the neck was always teaching his hens that it was more fun to sleep in the trees than in the coop! He also enjoyed attacking my toddler. So, beautiful as he was, he had to go.

I have been around game roosters a lot of my lifetime... never been around a mean one. Been around some mean hens though!

 

[Timothy Menezes]

He wasn't mean, he just perceived toddler as a threat I suppose.

 

[Faith Lynn]

He wasn't mean, he just perceived toddler as a threat I suppose.

I can see that. But it was the right thing to do to keep your toddler safe!

 

[ChickenLeg]

Let em all mate and see whatcha get. Just make sure roosters dont fight, alotta games will fight til only one roo is left.. even more docile breeds can fight alot when a new roo is introduced