Mixed breeds

[missnu01]

So do any of you manage to sell the mix breeds? Do people want that when they buy chicks?

I am just as likely to buy mutt chickens as I am pure breeds...I just like chickens...black, white, yellow, blue, fuzzy, furry, 3 toes, 4 toes, 12 toes, whatever...lol.

 

[missnu01]

There are many ways, sometimes you can pull out the wings and the feathers closer to the inside are pointy they ae cockreals.

For real? So I take their wing and pull it out and look for pointy feathers? Is that always right?

 

[Chicken Tamer]

For real? So I take their wing and pull it out and look for pointy feathers? Is that always right?

Most of the time, its the ones closer to the body, u can compare them to your hens too, and if tey are the same then there hens.

 

[Gardeningmama]

I am just as likely to buy mutt chickens as I am pure breeds...I just like chickens...black, white, yellow, blue, fuzzy, furry, 3 toes, 4 toes,

12 toes, whatever...lol. 





Mee Tooo!!! Love my chickens! Might I add that I just got my" Chilling with My Peeps "bumper sticker? My DH doesn't even know yet! He's gonna just love it

 

[SixHix]

Yay! I love this thread! I have an incubator coming in the mail today. Can't wait to get chicks hatching. I love the mystery and can't wait to see what the babies look like. The only mutts I have are BR x RIR crosses (4) that aren't quite full grown yet. I'm hoping to breed them back to some other RIR to see if I can get more red to show.

 

[missnu01]

I want an incubator something terrible, but there is no way I can afford one. And I am afraid that if I make one it won't work well and I will just waste a bunch of eggs. I have a hen that has some chicks now and hopefully she'll go broody again in the spring, and then I will get to see what is really inside the delicious eggs. Lol. It seems like the cheapest way to grow my flock. I have the space for a lot of chickens, but have only a few currently. I don't want to get stuck with other people's cast offs off of craigslist either. If I hatch the eggs I know that the chickens aren't too old to lay and what not. My first chickens were a quartet, 3 hens and a rooster...The rooster and one of the hens are old, one hen is laying, and the third hen is too young to lay, although she looks to be big enough to start just anytime soon. Her comb and wattles are not developed though, and they aren't at all red. Then I got the hen and chicks, and I am afraid that most of the chicks are roos...
I am also getting a new silkie roo later today, so if nothing else I will have some very mixed chickens come summer time I hope. All I know is that if I plan on having enough eggs to eat i am going to need quite a few more chickens. The one that is laying does so reliably but one laying chicken isn't really enough with a family of 5. I mean jeez we can polish off 10 eggs at one sitting.

 

[mstricer]

If looking on craigslist just buy chicks. don't buy their throw a ways, just because you look don't mean you have to buy.

 

[chicken-whisperer]

Hope to see a picture of any Olive eggers that you get from your new roo and it would be fun if you could post his picture when your able.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

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Silkie cross chicks and a mixed breed frizzle hen.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

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3/4 Polish 1/4 Easter Egger frizzle chicks.