Mixed breeds

[aurinia]

Awesome! I bet you'll get some very pretty colors and patterns out of those breeds!

I hope so! I'm especially excited to see what the barred rocks chicks turn out like. If they're fathered by either the SPR or the Barnie, they should be black sex links. The EE roo has some barring in his tail, tho, so if he's the papa, no clue what they'll look like.

 

[lightchick]

Awesome! I bet you'll get some very pretty colors and patterns out of those breeds!

I hope so! I'm especially excited to see what the barred rocks chicks turn out like. If they're fathered by either the SPR or the Barnie, they should be black sex links. The EE roo has some barring in his tail, tho, so if he's the papa, no clue what they'll look like.

Love to see some pics when they hatch!

 

[slordaz]

Count me in! I've got an incubator full of mutts slated to hatch on Monday. I cannot WAIT to see what they look like! I've got 3 roos (barnevelder, silver penciled rock and EE) over a bunch of different hens (white and barred rocks, EE's,RIR,Jersey giant and my tiny feather-legged bantam EE). Dad to most of them is probably the SPR but the EE is really young and umm...enthusiastic, so he's a definite possibility, too. Lol. Should be an interesting mix of colors, anyway.

mine are a guess who the daddy was when they hatch as both the barred rock and the RIR are covering all the hens, and from what I read 1 mating can produce fertile eggs for 2 weeks

 

[dunnmom]

Does anyone have any pictures of a Wyandotte/Buff Orpington mix? I have an SLW roo, and BO hens. Curious what their offspring might look like.

 

[NanaK]

This is pics of Claireese. Her father was a Buff Orpington and mom was a gold laced wyandotte.

Here she is as a just hatched chick with the little spot on her head....





Here she is as a one year old hen with chicks of her own.




She has the wyandotte body shape and comb and the buff orpington color. She is now about 2 years old and broody again. She is a VERY protective mom.

Although your orpington/wyandotte mix could look very different from Claireese, this gives you an idea of one of the possibilities.

Good luck with your birds!

NanaK

 

[mdshec]

Wow...I think this is the longest thread on the site. I have 2 RIR, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Golden laced Wyandotte, 1 Australorp (that I don't think is laying), 1 EE (that i really love), 1 Light Brahms, 1 blue Andalasian all laying right now. I did have a beautiful RIR Rooster I was going to use to breed with, but the little bugger was getting to aggressive towards me, the wife and the dogs. So he had to go.

This year I bought 2 EE pullets, 1 Buff Leghorn, 1 Silver Wyandotte, 1 Silver Hamburg, 1 barred rock, 2 RIR. AND 1 EE Rooster. Hopefully this rooster won't be quit as aggressive as the RIR roo was and I can get an interesting mix from my backyard flock.

I was wondering if anyone has used an EE Roo as the start of their barnyard breeds.

 

[Phoenixxx]

Wow...I think this is the longest thread on the site.  I have 2 RIR, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Golden laced Wyandotte, 1 Australorp (that I don't think is laying), 1 EE (that i really love), 1 Light Brahms, 1 blue Andalasian all laying right now.  I did have a beautiful RIR Rooster I was going to use to breed with, but the little bugger was getting to aggressive towards me, the wife and the dogs.  So he had to go.

This year I bought 2 EE pullets, 1 Buff Leghorn, 1 Silver Wyandotte, 1 Silver Hamburg, 1 barred rock, 2 RIR.  AND 1 EE Rooster.  Hopefully this rooster won't be quit as aggressive as the RIR roo was and I can get an interesting mix from my backyard flock.

I was wondering if anyone has used an EE Roo as the start of their barnyard breeds.

I have an EE roo that I'm using as a breeder. His mom is half ameraucana, half blue australorp and I'm pretty sure his dad was a black australorp (although it could've been the marans). He's quite large, right on par with my buff orp/brahma cross roo, although more dense. I'm actually kinda sorta working towards a cold-hardy, large, feather-footed, excellent-laying dual-purpose green egg layer having trouble getting feathered legs alongside the green (blue) egg gene, hence the intro of the orp/brahma cross... but I think I have one now, ONE pullet out of about 100 eggs hatched this year... fingers crossed!

 

[ldawntaylor]

Hi,

I just had to add this thought.

When it comes to dogs the only real difference between a Labradoodle and a mutt is that the Labradoodle's parentage is known and that particular combination now has an accepted name. Kinder in goats also comes to mind (Nubian and Nigerian Dwarf I believe).

Chickens are the same way an established mix is no longer considered a mix by most - Easter Egger anyone?

In my opinion the only difference between a crossbreed and a barnyard mix is who does the breeding and whether or not it was intentional. Otherwise to use my original example - a Labradoodle is just a mutt with a pedigree. Chickens are the same kind of thing on that point.

Personally I like the mutts and the added guessing games of which breed the individual most resembles.

 

[wannahomestead]

just hatched my first run of mixed breed. I set 12 eggs, lost 2 because of cracks. 10 hatched, and I have a mix of 6 EE mom/RiR dad, and 4 Black Australorp mom/RiR dad.

I'd like to keep a couple roosters out of this mix, and use them in the future. I know absolutely zero about breeding chickens (other than when a mommy chicken and a daddy chicken love each other very much, baby chickens happen). I kind of want to do my own custom spin, and keep the lineage of my original flock. That way, when my original flock is gone, I can still have their offspring. A little nostalgic and lame? yea, certainly. However, it's also a way to keep the OG flock around for years to come, in some way .

 

[wannahomestead]

and of course, obligatory pictures, since I'm excited and showing anyone/everyone who will look, lol