Different cages or the same one

[Just4kicks]

I just purchased 6 breeds of chicken I want to keep them "pure" should I separate the breeds after the browsers or before and should I keep them in separate coops

 

[BlueBaby]

If you are planning to breed them to get hatching eggs or chicks out of them, to keep them "pure" you would have to separate them by breed, or you would end up with mixed breed chicks.

 

[azygous]

No need whatsoever to separate your different breeds to keep them "pure". The only way to get a mixed breed chick from the bunch is if you let a rooster in with the hens. The only pure breed eggs would be from the hens that happen to be the same breed as the rooster.

I happen to have a flock of several different breeds, all pure. My rooster is a Cream Legbar. I wanted Cream Legbar chicks so I collected only the eggs from my cream Legbar hens to incubate and hatch. I got pure Cream Legbar chicks.

However, one of my Easter Eggers lays the exact same color egg as the Cream Legbars. I grabbed one of her eggs by mistake and when it hatched, the chick was a mixture of Easter Egger and Cream Legbar. She was my only mixed breed until today when she died from a serious virus, but she was a beautiful chicken.

 

[Just4kicks]

Sorry to hear about your chick thankyou so much

 

[aart]

I just purchased 6 breeds of chicken I want to keep them "pure" should I separate the breeds after the browsers or before and should I keep them in separate coops

I'm assuming they are all chicks at this point,
you won't need to separate them until the cockerels are sexually mature ~4months old.