I would like to think of a really cool project for me to work on over the years.
I am not totally sure what i need to do so that i why i am asking.
1. At first thought i wanted to take a silkie rooster and mate him with black copper maran hens( or another color of maran that would work best) Then take the resulting offspring and cross them with different colored easter eggers or if i can find some good purebred ameraucanas, then possibly those. That would make a funky-looking crested bird that laid olive eggs.
Can any of you see this working out? Has anybody already done this cross?
I guess what i am really looking to get out of this is a funky looking cross. Crested, feathered legs, olive colored eggs and the possibility to go broody.
To have this work out, what silkie rooster color would you start out with?
It would be even better to make them sex-linked or the ability to be sexed at a young age.
2. Another possibility for a project could involve some cream legbars. I am getting a juvenile pair of them in a week. After a while when of selling eggs from them and hatch chicks from them, i could take some of the chicks i hatch and set them apart and use them for projects.
Cream legbars already have the crests and lay blue eggs. Maybe i could mix those with nice marans then with a silkie. After i added the maran and silkie genes to the genepool is there any way the offspring would still be auto- sexing?
Let me know what you think of ideas. Which one would work better, or anything that needs to be done or tweaked in the process. Id also like to meet others that may have similiar crosses.
Thanks
I am not totally sure what i need to do so that i why i am asking.
1. At first thought i wanted to take a silkie rooster and mate him with black copper maran hens( or another color of maran that would work best) Then take the resulting offspring and cross them with different colored easter eggers or if i can find some good purebred ameraucanas, then possibly those. That would make a funky-looking crested bird that laid olive eggs.
Can any of you see this working out? Has anybody already done this cross?
I guess what i am really looking to get out of this is a funky looking cross. Crested, feathered legs, olive colored eggs and the possibility to go broody.
To have this work out, what silkie rooster color would you start out with?
It would be even better to make them sex-linked or the ability to be sexed at a young age.
2. Another possibility for a project could involve some cream legbars. I am getting a juvenile pair of them in a week. After a while when of selling eggs from them and hatch chicks from them, i could take some of the chicks i hatch and set them apart and use them for projects.
Cream legbars already have the crests and lay blue eggs. Maybe i could mix those with nice marans then with a silkie. After i added the maran and silkie genes to the genepool is there any way the offspring would still be auto- sexing?
Let me know what you think of ideas. Which one would work better, or anything that needs to be done or tweaked in the process. Id also like to meet others that may have similiar crosses.
Thanks
