crossing

[birdman1994]

I looked on google and different places and could find every breed of chicken known to man but i cant find any websites with a collection of different breed crossings like what two breeds' babies will look like any suggestions. iv tried a lot of crossings to figure it out for myself but sometimes it doesent turn out very well and had to put down some unhealthy birds.

 

[nicalandia]

I looked on google and different places and could find every breed of chicken known to man but i cant find any websites with a collection of different breed crossings like what two breeds' babies will look like any suggestions. iv tried a lot of crossings to figure it out for myself but sometimes it doesent turn out very well and had to put down some unhealthy birds.

such place does not exist, but you can ask any specific question here and I´ll help you out

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

What breed combinations made 'bad crosses' that needed to be put down? I can't imagine that any would.

 

[birdman1994]

well i tried crossing a barred rock roo and a silkie hen and it was almost like the silkie egg was to small and it started cracking before the chicks were developed and the ones that did hatch couldent walk right and a few died the first few days and the rest dident last much over a week

 

[birdman1994]

its the saddest situation iv delt with in my experience with chickens

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

large fowl barred rock? Trying the cross the other way (so that the egg is larger from the largefowl mama) would work better. I've had silkie X barred rocks that had no problems.whatsoever.

 

[birdman1994]

yeah i beleive it would have turn out better the other way do u have any pictures of that cross?

 

[mstricer]

well i tried crossing a barred rock roo and a silkie hen and it was almost like the silkie egg was to small and it started cracking before the chicks were developed and the ones that did hatch couldent walk right and a few died the first few days and the rest dident last much over a week

Sounds like an incubation problem, not the mixing. I hatched a ton of Marans over d'Uccle chicks over the summer and not one cracked during incubation not one died after. Silkies are way bigger then d'Uccles, egg wish also. This was an accidental match up as I had a young cockerel get in a hole in my d'Uccle pen that I didn't know was there. They are the cutest chicks.

 

[birdman1994]

those are very cute... i hatched twenty game chickens out of the same incubater that round and they all did fine.

 

[mstricer]

Well I give then. Maybe the eggs were not strong enough. I'm interested in knowing if anyone else had the same problem like yours.