Mixed breeds

[legghorn]

I've been playing rescue ranger today can anybody tell me what breed this hen is? IM thinking Easter egger or partly! Not sure

 

[dretd]

Has anyone ever crossed a black copper maran roo with a barred rock hen? i have some in the incubator right now and just wondering what the chicks and adults look like.

Did your little chicks hatch yet?

You will get a sex link--all the girls will be black and all the boys will be single barred and have a white spot on the top of their heads on an otherwise black fluff at hatch. They should be awesomw layers!

If you ever are in need of an estimator on genotype and phenotype (what the birds look like), you can put them in to the chicken calculator : http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

Its not 100% accurate as there are alway variations in genes and how they are expressed, but it gives you a decent start. If you don't know what a color pattern is of a certain breed, click the 'show examples' button then you can hover your mouse over the pictures for descriptions and some will list the breed that that patern is associated with.

 

[dretd]

I've been playing rescue ranger today can anybody tell me what breed this hen is? IM thinking Easter egger or partly! Not sure

It does look like an EE, and once an EE always an EE since it is a mixed breed to start.

 

[legghorn]

Ok cool thanx slot got another 1 at same time not sure about it either

 

[farmhand]

I have available to pick up some hatching eggs from a mixed flock of Lemon Cuckoo and Lavander Orpingtons. Assuming some will be pure, others mixed. Since I have limited space, could someone advise as to what I might be looking at with the mixed Orpingtons.
Tks

 

[CarolinaHen]

We picked up three Silkie/EE mixes. I'm guessing they are about 4 months old. Any guess as whether I'm close or not? Also, the one with the comb shows no signs of spurs or crowing, so I'm thinking pullet for all three.

 

[stevodod]

Greetings to all and thanks for all the great information on this thread.

I've got a project of my own going. I'll call it "The Great Chicken Experiment". I first got four red sex-link pullets, 4 EE pullets, and 3 white pullets that could be leghorns (in same pen as the reds when I bought them). I then wanted chocolate eggs, so I added two cuckoo marans, which turned out to be roosters! Ugh! These guys are around 2.5 months old. Then we won 8 chickens at our county fair, one bantam and 7 Cornish Rock crosses. The bantam will be kept for entertainment purposes, the 7 Cornish Rocks will be harvested in a few months for being too tasty!

At a local feed store, I couldn't resist just one Barred Rock and a silver laced wyandotte, then the next week we had to get 4 lavender orpingtons (1 roo). The rest are pullets.

Tonight, we adopted 9 red cockerels (to raise for meat) and one Ancona pullet!

The plan? I'm getting rid of the Cuckoo Maran roos (they're getting big and looking tasty) b/c I want one or two great roosters that will be awesome breeders for my flock, just not Marans- I'm thinking their offspring would have a lower egg production. The Cornish and extra reds will be eaten, so that will leave me with ONE rooster (the lavender orpington), and he's still a chick!

I have a chance to get a 20 week old Speckled Sussex rooster or a 24 week old Delaware, both are beautiful, and will be my 'stud'. I plan to keep the lavenders separate to breed true. That leaves a barred rock, silver laced wyandotte, 4 reds, 3 whites, 4 EE's, and an ancona for the new rooster. I know that's 14, but I'll let the lavender orp have some fun too!

The goal is, to see what is the most productive egg-layer in our given environment, and to raise the crosses between the rooster and specific hens to make some interesting-looking chicks.

I'll post pics when I get some of the pullets, but they range in age from a week, to two weeks, to three weeks, to a month, to two months, and then finally 2.5 months. Any way you slice it, this should give me quite a variety of 'mixed mutts' to choose from.

Any recommendations on a rooster? Or advice on crosses and what some might turn out to look like?

My name is Steve, and I'm a chicken hoarder!

 

[stevodod]

Kind of a dead thread here...update anyway....

Keeping one cuckoo male, getting another roo for diversity. Getting rid of the RIR roos- trying to trade for a pullet or two. Then going to eat the cornish!

 

[Barred4Life]

This is my mixed bantam...is she not a funky chicken? Just love mix birds and how colourful and unique they can be! This one had some chicks...and they've got mini afros like their mama

 

[annewandering]

This is my mixed bantam...is she not a funky chicken? Just love mix birds and how colourful and unique they can be! This one had some chicks...and they've got mini afros like their mama

She is very pretty!