Oh, I am in love
. The furry buff silkie/d'uccle is my favorite. Are you going to keep them to see how they turn out? I think I would. I know you can't keep 'em all, but there always seems to be room for one more, right?
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i plan on keeping all pullets and hoping for one of the silkie/d'uccles to be a cockerel to replace their dadOh, I am in love. The furry buff silkie/d'uccle is my favorite. Are you going to keep them to see how they turn out? I think I would. I know you can't keep 'em all, but there always seems to be room for one more, right?
Non naked,naked neck X polish cross chick.
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I was so excited to come across this thread! I started out with Barred Plymouth Rocks but originally craved Welsummers.
Finally got my Wellies a few months back and love them - can't wait for those terra cotta eggs! Recently became enamored with Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers. Purchased two 4 mo. old EE pullets and one EE Roo - same age and after being around the EE's for a week now have decided they are my favorite breed so far for appearance, how they carry themselves, their inquisitiveness and mild but spunky personalities. I also think their head and neck with the puffy feathered cheeks and how they rotate their heads looks like the bald eagle.
Anyway, DH built me a very nice large chicken house using reclaimed wood he salvaged himself from 100+ y.o. buildings and barns. The salvaged windows are also vintage and he put old rusty tin on the roof - you guessed it - also salvaged. He built covered decks on two sides so we can put Aiderondack (sp?) chairs and a table on the one facing the 'soon to be completed' fenced run around our old grown up blueberry bushes - they should love that and DH and I will be comfortable sitting on the deck watching 'chicken TV'!
The end effect is that the chicken house and large secure covered run both look like they have been there for a century vs. a few months! I helped design the 'new' old looking structure and soon it will have running water and it's own large utility sink - who says tending chickens has to be a messy business? lol
All three breeds of my newly combined flock are getting along so well, even the various ages are having no problems so I want to let them all 'hang out' together and 'breed as they choose'.
I will be selling their eggs at my local farmers market and having each dozen with the BR brown eggs, EE colored eggs and the Welsummer terra cotta and possibly speckled eggs will make a nice presentation I think. I'm hoping to get $4 per dozen by next Spring when the eggs will be large size and not 'pullet' eggs like I'll be getting this fall. Golden Comet eggs at our mkt. are selling for $3 now. I hope my marketing of my 'specialty' eggs will garner the extra $1 per/dozen.
This last year I've been really 'into' promoting the 'Heritage Breed' BRs - selling hatching eggs and BR chicks and started pullets but I'm now leaning toward just 'letting nature take it's course' and seeing what combinations come about as the breeds mix & mingle
their gene pools.
This thread has gone a long way in helping me get over the 'purebreed' guilt thing so thank you all for your comment on this timely topic.
Finally got my Wellies a few months back and love them - can't wait for those terra cotta eggs! Recently became enamored with Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers. Purchased two 4 mo. old EE pullets and one EE Roo - same age and after being around the EE's for a week now have decided they are my favorite breed so far for appearance, how they carry themselves, their inquisitiveness and mild but spunky personalities. I also think their head and neck with the puffy feathered cheeks and how they rotate their heads looks like the bald eagle.
Anyway, DH built me a very nice large chicken house using reclaimed wood he salvaged himself from 100+ y.o. buildings and barns. The salvaged windows are also vintage and he put old rusty tin on the roof - you guessed it - also salvaged. He built covered decks on two sides so we can put Aiderondack (sp?) chairs and a table on the one facing the 'soon to be completed' fenced run around our old grown up blueberry bushes - they should love that and DH and I will be comfortable sitting on the deck watching 'chicken TV'!
The end effect is that the chicken house and large secure covered run both look like they have been there for a century vs. a few months! I helped design the 'new' old looking structure and soon it will have running water and it's own large utility sink - who says tending chickens has to be a messy business? lol
All three breeds of my newly combined flock are getting along so well, even the various ages are having no problems so I want to let them all 'hang out' together and 'breed as they choose'.
I will be selling their eggs at my local farmers market and having each dozen with the BR brown eggs, EE colored eggs and the Welsummer terra cotta and possibly speckled eggs will make a nice presentation I think. I'm hoping to get $4 per dozen by next Spring when the eggs will be large size and not 'pullet' eggs like I'll be getting this fall. Golden Comet eggs at our mkt. are selling for $3 now. I hope my marketing of my 'specialty' eggs will garner the extra $1 per/dozen.
This last year I've been really 'into' promoting the 'Heritage Breed' BRs - selling hatching eggs and BR chicks and started pullets but I'm now leaning toward just 'letting nature take it's course' and seeing what combinations come about as the breeds mix & mingle
their gene pools.
This thread has gone a long way in helping me get over the 'purebreed' guilt thing so thank you all for your comment on this timely topic.
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My cochin/sebright(bantam) X wyandotte(largefowl) and cochin/sebright X game hen(largefowl) are hatching! I hope the polish X wyandotte and brahma that are due to hatch as well are early. I had 5 eggs under a broody when something got her off the nest in daylight hours. So I put the eggs with the above because they are only a few days (I think) apart. Knowing my game hen she will stay til they hatch.
I would like to know what reasoning we each have for our mixed breeds? For me it was having bad luck with largefowl roos being mean. My daughter no longer liked the big ones. So I was given a halfbred bantam roo and she now is no longer afraid. I tried breeding pures(setting bought eggs) but the hawks have been eating them all. So now I have stoppped buying pure bred eggs and let mine raise. That way Im not out anything. I guess I am trying to create a landrace-type strain/line I call allendale hammiedowns lol.
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Mine was completely by accident. No plans for a roo and faulty sexing made my decision for me. I ended up with a RIR roo. Love him, but don't know if he'll be around for long (he attacked my 2 year old today).Unknowingly bought a really wild mixed roo,( I posted a picture of earlier in the thread). I'm gonna take a new picture of him and post it, he is just getting so beautiful. Anyhow I bought a large assortment of pullets, ended up with the boys and thought, why not see what happens? I will have a lot of mixes, but I also have a pen of Seramas, One of Silkies, And One of Lavender Orps that I will be keeping pure. For me, it's for fun and my own personal enjoyment.
The orange colored ones are still my favorite. I have never seen that color on a chick before. I WANT ONEok heres all 10 of them (well 9, 10 wasnt in the pic lol) 5 lavender/porcelain d'uccle and 5 silkie/d'uccle just 2-3 days old
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