Cross Breeds!!!!

[tao chick]

nice birds. the last black one looks like pullet. if only you have room for chickens you will end up with as many as they fit - just as the rest of us. I wanted 1 rooster and 4-5 hens, now I am around 15 + some chicks for meat, but at least 1 will stay!

I'm going to need help with the chicken math. My coop could easily hold 10 birds on a long-term basis, and we have 2 acres for them to roam. DH doesn't want to keep a rooster, but I'm hoping that one of the laid back black birds decides to wait a long time before it crows so I can convince him of the benefits before that happens. This week or this weekend I'm going to get more chicks from my brother in law and sister in law, so how many should I ask for? We have plenty of places for the eggs (my father eats up to 2 dozen a week).

 

[chickengr]

I'm going to need help with the chicken math. My coop could easily hold 10 birds on a long-term basis, and we have 2 acres for them to roam. DH doesn't want to keep a rooster, but I'm hoping that one of the laid back black birds decides to wait a long time before it crows so I can convince him of the benefits before that happens. This week or this weekend I'm going to get more chicks from my brother in law and sister in law, so how many should I ask for? We have plenty of places for the eggs (my father eats up to 2 dozen a week).

get as many as you can keep. it seems you need them for the eggs and all of you will be happy!

 

[SJchickens]

I present to you the beast that is a RIR Cochin cross cockerel.

 

[JetsChickens]

Black Langshan father over a brown egg laying hen ( of my hens that were laying at the time it would have either been a Buckeye, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Black Langshan, Partridge Cochin or a Cherry Egger)

He (or she) doesn't have a name yet, I just refer to it as the calico chick. It's very cute. I haven't seen any other chicks with patches like that so I am not sure how common that is or how it happened or if it will disappear when it gets older?

A couple days old in these two pics






about 3 weeks or so in these

 

[JTRZWestminster]

BuckBeak my Blue Orpington, Golden Laced Wyandotte cross rooster.

 

[tao chick]

JetsChickens, I look forward to seeing updated pics of Calico.

 

[dekel18042]

BuckBeak my Blue Orpington, Golden Laced Wyandotte cross rooster.

Gorgeous colors! What a beautiful rooster.

 

[tao chick]

I'm still trying to narrow down the exact combination these two birds are, but I love them!

 

[draye]

BuckBeak my Blue Orpington, Golden Laced Wyandotte cross rooster.

Beautiful rooster. You going to use him for breeding?

 

[JTRZWestminster]

Beautiful rooster. You going to use him for breeding?

Probably not because we mostly have cross breeds in our flock now, but only time can tell!