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[drumstick diva]

Nice to meet you Will. Hope you will enjoy Backyard chickens as much as we do

 

[Hope Hughes]

Welcome to BYC!!
You have come to the right place
Everyone here is always ready and willing to help with any questions you may have. Or just to chat and have fun!
Also check out the Learning Center, it has so much information on every subject you can think of.
Enjoy your time here, glad to have you!!
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[Lazy Farmer]

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC!

 

[KLIL]

Hello and Welcome to BYC
My names Krystal.
I have created a thread (like a baby book) for My Flock Journey since I start. As im really new too. If you wish to take a look.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-flock-journey.1258290/

Lovely to meet you

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Will

Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Happy to have you here with us!

Thanks for joining!

 

[William Rains]

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For breeding you will want more pens! This is a line breeding chart

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You have to break up each breed by generations in breeding groups

My Plan will be to coordinate with other local breeders and such.
Until I have more land

 

[ronott1]

My Plan will be to coordinate with other local breeders and such.
Until I have more land

I did that too!

I hatched eggs for a Dorking and Delaware breeder and then hatched for a guy that had an egg farm

 

[William Rains]

I have decided to divide up my space into three runs and follow a clan breeding/spiral breeding plan for my silver laced wyandottes.
I have one rooster over a year old with two hens of a similar age which I purchased from a local breeder who has fantastic birds and is real nice and interesting to talk to, which makes all the difference in my mind.

With this trio, or Flock A, I will try and hatch some eggs from in the next few months and hopefully get almost 6 hens from them which I can use with my other flocks.

Flock B is from my neighbour who also has a trio of SLW, his birds are cool because they seem to have an autosexing, autofeathering feature in their genetics, as in I can tell the males and females apart from about a week old, which I will try and incorporate into the genetics of the other flocks cos this might be beneficial I am going into proper breed standards and such.
My B Flock already has 6 hens and 2 cockerels from two hatches, (June 1st and July 18th) with a further 20 eggs currently sitting in the incubator. This will be my primary source of hens for the time being.

Flock C is kinda lame at the moment because all I will have to start will be another cockerel, but from a different line of prize winning SLW (I am getting him for free so I cannot say no) I plan on putting some of my hens from Flock B in with this cockerel so I can start my plan of Clan Breeding with the 3 separate flocks.

I have to be careful not to breed siblings for genetic diversity and all that so I may have to do a bit of messing around with the plans, but that currently is my newest plan.

Three Flocks A,B and C, start guiding them along.
I am not so much looking for just show standard pretty birds, I want to get these birds back up to laying well as well as being nice cooking birds with the extra males.

I love chickens but I love their use and purpose more sometimes so I want a dual purpose bird that is beautiful and productive.

There is my rant for the day

(From Flock B, the cockerel at the back, and the hen at the front. Very beautiful but I can't wait to see them full grown)

 

[ronott1]

I have decided to divide up my space into three runs and follow a clan breeding/spiral breeding plan for my silver laced wyandottes.
I have one rooster over a year old with two hens of a similar age which I purchased from a local breeder who has fantastic birds and is real nice and interesting to talk to, which makes all the difference in my mind.

With this trio, or Flock A, I will try and hatch some eggs from in the next few months and hopefully get almost 6 hens from them which I can use with my other flocks.

Flock B is from my neighbour who also has a trio of SLW, his birds are cool because they seem to have an autosexing, autofeathering feature in their genetics, as in I can tell the males and females apart from about a week old, which I will try and incorporate into the genetics of the other flocks cos this might be beneficial I am going into proper breed standards and such.
My B Flock already has 6 hens and 2 cockerels from two hatches, (June 1st and July 18th) with a further 20 eggs currently sitting in the incubator. This will be my primary source of hens for the time being.

Flock C is kinda lame at the moment because all I will have to start will be another cockerel, but from a different line of prize winning SLW (I am getting him for free so I cannot say no) I plan on putting some of my hens from Flock B in with this cockerel so I can start my plan of Clan Breeding with the 3 separate flocks.

I have to be careful not to breed siblings for genetic diversity and all that so I may have to do a bit of messing around with the plans, but that currently is my newest plan.

Three Flocks A,B and C, start guiding them along.
I am not so much looking for just show standard pretty birds, I want to get these birds back up to laying well as well as being nice cooking birds with the extra males.

I love chickens but I love their use and purpose more sometimes so I want a dual purpose bird that is beautiful and productive.

There is my rant for the day

(From Flock B, the cockerel at the back, and the hen at the front. Very beautiful but I can't wait to see them full grown)
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