These chicks are mixes leghorn, Egyptian Fayomi, Oliver eggers, and blue splash marans
working on breeding a more efficient egg producer for where I live, that thrives on a completey free range environment, which is 8+ acres of pasture and woodlands. I made an earlier post about the project if you’d like to check it out, the hens from this generation will be bred back to an unrelated, purebred rooster. I’m think brown or white leghorn due to the eggs they produce, hardiness, and foraging abilities. In a few generations I’ll reintroduce the Fayomi blood again to give them more vigor, and decrease the size. I’m in Florida, and a smaller size helps animals deal with the heat. All our wildlife here tends to be smaller than northern counterparts, and I notice the large, fluffy types of chickens don’t do well at all during the heat of the summer. Right now I’m just gonna breed towards a standard, and once I’m satisfied with that, probably will be my F5 or F6 generation, I’ll start linebreeding to keep consistency, outcrossing every so often to introduce new blood.
Ideally... I’d love to produce my own breed for homesteads, and ship eggs out to other poultry owners to have the genetics all over the country
but that’s a long ways off so for now I’m focused on these small term goals.
