If you could create a breed or a variety of a breed, what would you make?

[ChicKat]

To the OP -
great question with a lot of interest.
For me, it starts with the criteria that I want:
1. Prolific layer
2. Autosexing
3. Robust health
4. Beautiful
5. Friendly
6. Easy keeper - or as they also used to say in the olden days "thrifty"

And -- here it is!

Female chick above - male below:

And when they grow up:

Above, adult female and below adult male:

For this variety I wanted no-crest because the crest makes the Legbar combs wonky. For egg shell color - tinted was my goal because I was getting green from Isbar and blue from Legbar - so I wanted a different color.

You can see the egg color under this broody Legbar, and two babies that she just hatched.
Below her fluffy babies. The one on the left is male - denoted by white headspot and the one on the right is female, you can tell by the "chipmunk" stripes on her back.

Here's a link to the strategy/recipe that was the method to accomplish these chickens.... Maybe it could help some of you with your projects to see how many generations to get what you are aiming for...and also the genetic calculator to help your project is shown in the thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...uckoo-barred-project-and-genetic-dis.1153068/

Happy 4th of July everyone!

 

[BantyChooks]

To the OP -
great question with a lot of interest.
For me, it starts with the criteria that I want:
1. Prolific layer
2. Autosexing
3. Robust health
4. Beautiful
5. Friendly
6. Easy keeper - or as they also used to say in the olden days "thrifty"

And -- here it is!

Female chick above - male below:

And when they grow up:

Above, adult female and below adult male:

For this variety I wanted no-crest because the crest makes the Legbar combs wonky. For egg shell color - tinted was my goal because I was getting green from Isbar and blue from Legbar - so I wanted a different color.

You can see the egg color under this broody Legbar, and two babies that she just hatched.
Below her fluffy babies. The one on the left is male - denoted by white headspot and the one on the right is female, you can tell by the "chipmunk" stripes on her back.

Here's a link to the strategy/recipe that was the method to accomplish these chickens.... Maybe it could help some of you with your projects to see how many generations to get what you are aiming for...and also the genetic calculator to help your project is shown in the thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...uckoo-barred-project-and-genetic-dis.1153068/

Happy 4th of July everyone!

Woah, those are incredibly beautiful. Nice job.

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Of course.

Then we need a cycen with a white/blue spangle hackels and then red/white barring body and call it the Independence cycen. Preferably originated in some place like OhiO or maybe Indiana. Iowa would work too.

 

[alexisrambles]

To the OP -
great question with a lot of interest.
For me, it starts with the criteria that I want:
1. Prolific layer
2. Autosexing
3. Robust health
4. Beautiful
5. Friendly
6. Easy keeper - or as they also used to say in the olden days "thrifty"

And -- here it is!

Female chick above - male below:

And when they grow up:

Above, adult female and below adult male:

For this variety I wanted no-crest because the crest makes the Legbar combs wonky. For egg shell color - tinted was my goal because I was getting green from Isbar and blue from Legbar - so I wanted a different color.

You can see the egg color under this broody Legbar, and two babies that she just hatched.
Below her fluffy babies. The one on the left is male - denoted by white headspot and the one on the right is female, you can tell by the "chipmunk" stripes on her back.

Here's a link to the strategy/recipe that was the method to accomplish these chickens.... Maybe it could help some of you with your projects to see how many generations to get what you are aiming for...and also the genetic calculator to help your project is shown in the thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...uckoo-barred-project-and-genetic-dis.1153068/

Happy 4th of July everyone!

This is so amazingly cool!!! I hadn't thought about breeding them as auto-sexing. These are really beautiful too. Thanks for the info- I'm hopping over to dive into genetics!

 

[Chickengene]

A Turducken...
Save a lot of prep time in the kitchen.

 

[BReeder!]

a large sebright the size of brahma

 

[Beccazon]

My mille fleur booted bantam as a silkie would be pretty nifty looking!

 

[FowlWitch]

I want a chicken that lays emerald green eggs (or a color similar to emu eggs).

A fantasy chicken that has bright blue or red feathers like a parrot
And another project might be to breed Naked necks to look even more like vultures just for fun. Or taking a fibro chicken and breeding it to have similar proportions to a raven for those of us who can't keep corvids! You could probably make chickens look like a lot other kinds of birds

 

[Beccazon]

And another project might be to breed Naked necks to look even more like vultures just for fun.

People like those Chinese Crested and Mexican Hairless dogs. I wonder if they would go for fully Naked Chicken? Less plucking! Though might need a lil SPF or a lot of trees in your yard lol

 

[BReeder!]

People like those Chinese Crested and Mexican Hairless dogs. I wonder if they would go for fully Naked Chicken? Less plucking! Though might need a lil SPF or a lot of trees in your yard lol

Or the skin becomes naturally crispy. No more soggy skin problems on mom's roast chicken.