is it really bad to let different breeds mate?

[Hinotori]

You can mix them if you like. Just makes them barnyard specials

I have some mixed birds. We ate the extra male and the female is a good layer. I have some mixed breed eggs under a broody right now that should make good layers for me since I picked my bluest eggs from my best laying EE hens. I should get all sorts of feather colors and should get blue eggs. The father is half silkie and only carries one copy of the blue egg gene. If they come out with his personality, the males should be good boys as well.

Here is the cockerel and his half sister.

 

[vannaHaines]

Grow the gene pool!!!!!

 

[Matilda hen]

hey , i have 1 scots dumpy rooster , 2 blackrocks , i rir hybrid , 1 rir pb , 2 brown leghorns and they all run together and breed! i have other purebred scots dumpys , but no its grand , some chicks can comeout weak but with scots dumpy cross's i have to take them out of the egg , as they get trapped inside it but once a day old are fit and fine! like other cross;s ive had! heres some croosbreds and my flock so ITS FINE TO DO THAT!

 

[SarniaTricia]

My goal is for SUPER CUTE chicks..lol and eggs, egg color, and enjoyable pets. I'm sure if I get to many I will take them to the swap but I'm 100% honest and would tell them what they are. But I REALLY want a color full egg basket and I know I have brown egg layers, and some green ones my mixed girl layers a very light cream and I would love some white ones and some blue ones and any other color that they have out there..lol Does anyone know the breeds for the most eggs laying and for diff colored eggs?

Goober
I have investigated the egg colours and the breeds... Here is what I have:
White egg: light brown leghorns, polish
Light brown: red sex-links
Light Brown with speckles: Jersey Giants
Green: olive eggers
Blue: Aracuna, Americana
Dark Brown: Marans
Pink\plumb: Pendescacas
And all the various shades by individual hens....

 

[Goober1201]

hey thanks for the picks!! they are toooo cute!

And SarniaTricia thanks sooooo much for the info!! I'm thinking my rir girls will be dark brown? I only have one laying hen at the moment and she is broody.. sooo I just left the egg from today and yesterday under her.

Hoping for babies. She lays a super LIGHT tan cream egg? I rescued her from the table at a shop. I have no clue how old she is. I call her mamma. I'm guessing she is bred with my buff boys.

 

[Goober1201]

OK, so without a doubt my girl is broody. She wont move and she was all sorts of nasty with me..lol I got to look under her this morning and she only has 3 eggs and 2 golf balls? Will she lay more?

 

[Matilda hen]

they lay for around 4 days after going broody , sometimes more so yea!

 

[SarniaTricia]

hey thanks for the picks!! they are toooo cute!

And SarniaTricia thanks sooooo much for the info!! I'm thinking my rir girls will be dark brown? I only have one laying hen at the moment and she is broody.. sooo I just left the egg from today and yesterday under her.

Hoping for babies. She lays a super LIGHT tan cream egg? I rescued her from the table at a shop. I have no clue how old she is. I call her mamma. I'm guessing she is bred with my buff boys.

your RIR could be anywere from tan to dark brown... each hen is different.. I have 6 sex-links and DH can't tell them apart, but one lays a dark brown egg and one a light tan, the rest all shades in between...
You sound like you have a good broody... basically leave her alone.. watch out around day 21 and read up on broody hens and chicks....
If you have other girls that might be producing fertile eggs you can sneak them under her at night... she won't know the difference... my little grey Americanas hen sat on 6 eggs, hatched 2 and not a one of them were her eggs... she was their mama for close to 10 weeks after hatch, then one day she stomped her way out of the brooder coop and put herself to bed with the layers... she lays turquoise shade of green eggs.. sometimes... Her name is Princess.

 

[Goober1201]

Now that sounds like a cool color egg!! I'm hoping for some great babies from all my girls. But I will just let nature do. I was thinking about getting a incubator... but Id rather them do it..lol

 

[TMNfarm]

I have an ancona rooster and 6 buff orpington hens, 4 production red hens, and 2 black australorp hens. They have just started laying now (I'm SO excited!!) and are still laying really tiny eggs. Next spring, I hope to hatch out some chicks from them. It will be interesting to see what I get. My Mom wants to get layers again, so I can give some to her, and my BIL was talking about getting chickens next spring as well...