I need help from more experienced chicken owners

[Pinkaboo]

6 cuckoo Marans 8 wks old ( possible money maker to offset bills)LIKE TO KEEP TWO HENS ( I have three of each)


4 bresse 3 weeks( I hatched ) ( self hatched the only attraction??)

No beautiful looking love the personalities already no idea on sex


3 legbars three weeks ( temperament is the attraction) AND THE BLUE EGGS


2 salmon faverolles 3 weeks ( what about these??)NOT SURE KEEPING FOR NOW both hens


 Do you want a breed where the males and

females can be discerned at hatching by color or some other way?
Probably not because I couldn't cull the roos

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 Well the Bresse and the Favorelles could each substitute for each other
if you wanted to pick just one. The bresse are a meat breed, famed for their taste.
The Favorelles are a dual purpose breed both meat and eggs.
 Perhaps egg color is an attraction?    Many people do that. You have blue egg,
chocolate egg, light brown or creamy (Favorelles), and  
Bresse (which color do you have?)
Black- very large bright white egg
Blue- lighter than the White Bresse.
White- medium sized cream colored.

Do you think a dozen multi colored eggs would sell at your garden gate?
 Just a thought, if you breed the blue egg and the brown egg birds together,
you will get females which lay green eggs.

That was my original plan! White blue and brown eggs
Before I went chicken crazy!
My bresse are the white bresse galoise , I prefer these to the faverolles
The faverolles were a mad buy at auction because they said hens so I knew I wouldn't have a roo issue
Then I bid on two millefleurs sablepoot roos! By accident of course, they are in little boxes and its so hard to tell.

I like some of the bantams Pekins seem lovely but the small size worries me incase they get bullied, mind you my pekin went for a much bigger maran
Cockerel like something out of gremlins, her neck went huge!

So I could keep
Bresse
Legbars
For eggs

Then breed Marans
Blue copper
Wheaten
Splash
To sell as hatched chicks and for eggs

But still like to have Pekins !
And why don't people do a roo swap at markets
So you can get an unrelated roo for breeding??

 

[3riverschick]

Sounds like you have a good plan. If you keep Just one rooster, make it the Marans,
That way you can cross him to your blue egger and get green eggers, plus keep
breeding the purebred Marans. Maybe the best choice for your Marans boy would be
pure Wheaten, Then use the blue Wheaten and Spash Wheaten hens for your color project?
Best,
Karen
Unless your birds came from formal tightly linebred breeding programs, I don't think you will have a problem with inbreeding your flock.

 

[Pinkaboo]

Sounds like you have  a good plan. If you keep Just one rooster, make it the Marans,
That way you can cross him to your blue egger and get green eggers, plus keep
breeding the purebred  Marans. Maybe the best choice for your Marans boy would be
pure Wheaten, Then use the blue Wheaten  and Spash Wheaten hens for your color project?
 Best,
 Karen
 Unless your birds came from formal tightly linebred breeding programs, I don't think you will have a problem with inbreeding your flock.

These hatching eggs sound VERY impressive
What do you think?

You are asked to bid on 6 very rare Lavender Wyandotte hatching eggs. This colour was developed by top Wyandotte showman and breeder Alan Brooker and has now been accepted as a recognised colour. The pen of bird consists of 8 second year hens running with 2 second year cockbirds that came direct from Alan as broodstock and eggs. Very few people in the UK have this colour and both adult birds which have fetched up to £285 for a trio at auction and eggs which have fetched as much as £235 for half a dozen on ebay last year shows the interest in these quite superb birds that took Alan 7 years to develop. P.o.l broodstock also available.

And stunning looking light sussex hatching eggs

You are asked to bid on 6 large fowl Light Sussex hatching eggs from exhibition stock. The eggs come from a pen of 10 second year hens with 2 second year unrelated cockbirds. The strain is one of the best in the UK and the birds outstanding specimens that lay large rose tinted eggs proved fertile in January 2014 This is a rare opportunity to purchase some outstanding Light Sussex that are how Light Sussex should look.


These are her Marans they are £5 for six eggs tested at 100% fertile

French copper blue

Splash

And wheaten

Aren't they stunning looking birds

For the Pekins I like the blue and lemon millefleurs