I'm planning on putting my roosters for rotation, for which one gets to mate with mixed hens, depending on hen laying. Is this a good idea?

[Syidan96]

So, i have a plan, to make hybrids and purebreds, by rotating on which roosters will breed with other hens, and I'm planning to change them once the hens finished incubating their eggs. I'll isolate the hatchlings in the brood box alongside the ones i incubated in my automatic incubator. And I'll isolate other roosters and let one be with the hens. I'm planning to do this until i have a place to keep more chickens, and my plans aren't limited due to me living in a tropical area, which means there's only 2 seasons here. Dry, and wet monsoon (wasn't that affected with monsoon due to my location). Is this a good idea, for me to easier identify which chicks are from which parents, for me to make hybrids and keep purebreds?

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Just remember it take 3-4 weeks for the sperm to leave a hens body.

To get the best chance for a hen accept to roosters seaman is to not move the hens. Sometimes it can take up to a week or longer for a hen to start relaying after she has been moved or a rooster has moved in. Other than that your plan will most likely work

 

[Egg Snatcher]

What purebred are you trying to breed for and what would be the hybrids

 

[Syidan96]

Just remember it take 3-4 weeks for the sperm to leave a hens body.

To get the best chance for a hen accept to roosters seaman is to not move the hens. Sometimes it can take up to a week or longer for a hen to start relaying after she has been moved or a rooster has moved in. Other than that your plan will most likely work

Yeah, my plan is to move the roosters when the hens became broody a week, after my auto incubator are full. So i think that's should work.

 

[Syidan96]

What purebred are you trying to breed for and what would be the hybrids

Purebred would be, WL, RIR, cemani, australorp, fayoumi, and authentic heritage malays (they're native here).

Hybrids would be meat mutt, red sex links, cemani crosses, and others, i will select traits to get some specific attributes, and it should be dual purpose, so i have no idea yet what it's going to be, but im trying to make a new breed, making it breed true, as well as trying to make industrial breed true, even if it's not the same as the parent f1 (or f3 in CX case).

 

[Syidan96]

What purebred are you trying to breed for and what would be the hybrids

I want to also make my own Cx like the original, aka Cornish rock, but there's an absence of indian game(or cornish) here in malaysia, Plymouth Rock however, is abundant here, so i have no clue how to find similar breed that are focused on meat growth.

 

[aart]

Yeah, my plan is to move the roosters when the hens became broody a week, after my auto incubator are full.

Confused, you are both using an electric incubator and hoping for broody hens?

here in malaysia

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[Egg Snatcher]

Purebred would be, WL, RIR, cemani, australorp, fayoumi, and authentic heritage malays (they're native here).

Hybrids would be meat mutt, red sex links, cemani crosses, and others, i will select traits to get some specific attributes, and it should be dual purpose, so i have no idea yet what it's going to be, but im trying to make a new breed, making it breed true, as well as trying to make industrial breed true, even if it's not the same as the parent f1 (or f3 in CX case).

In this case your plan probably won’t work. You’d need to have several breeding pens to breed the purebreds. Putting one purebred rooster in with your purebred hens will not give you purebred chicks. You’ll just have a bunch of mixed chicks. Example RIR x Cemanis will only result in a mixed chicken.

Confused, you are both using an electric incubator and hoping for broody hens?

Agree I’m confused too.

 

[Syidan96]

Confused, you are both using an electric incubator and hoping for broody hens?


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Thanks.

Yes and no. Yes i use both hen and incubator, no, i don't hope for it, these hens have been broody before, and i didn't have this recently bought auto incubator when they first go broody, so there's 6 hatchlings, 3 were eaten by the cx roo, another 3 died because i thought their mom can brood them, but she doesn't, so they're goner as well. Other eggs didn't make it, 2 died whilst hatching. There was a total 24 eggs, including cx hen.

So, now, i have brooding box and auto incubator, so I'm well equipped now. Waiting another 17 days till the eggs hatch, and waiting for the fayoumi hens to sit on their eggs.

 

[Syidan96]

In this case your plan probably won’t work. You’d need to have several breeding pens to breed the purebreds. Putting one purebred rooster in with your purebred hens will not give you purebred chicks. You’ll just have a bunch of mixed chicks. Example RIR x Cemanis will only result in a mixed chicken.

So i have to isolate a couple, and for mixed, i need a seperate rooster?

Btw, these hens each have their own brood spots, that's why i can identify which is which. I put it like a rack, and they settled in, in the hays i put in the racks, so those racks kinda like their nesting site