I have a flock or cream legbars and 2 groups of bantam cochins. I usually let my spare roosters roam free, normally just excess bantam cochins. But in my cream legbar flock, I tried to keep a father and son, but the son decided he wanted to be top dog. So I allow the older one to run with the cochin boys.
One day, the legbars got their gate open, and a few girls got out. So I decided I’d just leave them out with their old rooster.
it’s coming up on hatching time. I would never sell the eggs from the yard girls, since mating with a cochin is possible, but since the regular CL hatches are auto-sexing, I wondered if I would be able to tell at hatch, if one of the cochins happened to be the father.
Feathered legs - would they dominate? I assume the chicks would be smaller, since the cochins are bantams. The current free cochins are Splash in color, so what might that do to the cross?
Pictured is the older rooster, and one of the girls (there are 5 roaming), and one of the splash roosters is in the middle of the ducks below, the other is back by the fence
One day, the legbars got their gate open, and a few girls got out. So I decided I’d just leave them out with their old rooster.
it’s coming up on hatching time. I would never sell the eggs from the yard girls, since mating with a cochin is possible, but since the regular CL hatches are auto-sexing, I wondered if I would be able to tell at hatch, if one of the cochins happened to be the father.
Feathered legs - would they dominate? I assume the chicks would be smaller, since the cochins are bantams. The current free cochins are Splash in color, so what might that do to the cross?
Pictured is the older rooster, and one of the girls (there are 5 roaming), and one of the splash roosters is in the middle of the ducks below, the other is back by the fence
