Mixed breeds

[Moochie]

I LOVE mix breeds. My heavenly silkie rooster Skippy has given me 2 girls from an EE and 3 girls from a bantam cochin. He always makes girls but I would love a rooster from him. Right now I suppose we have more purebreds than mutts but then again I consider all chickens mutts when ya get right down to it.

On the left is Mama and the right Goldie, Goldie passed away though Some of my mutts passed away this summer from the heat and they were my first chickens. All I have left is Moochie and Mama. I believe Mama is an Andalusian mixed with Rhode Island Red or just some red breed of chicken (she's also very broody). Goldie is Brahma mixed with Buff Orpington although she was never broody. Good egg layers though.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

That SLW is a real beauty. LOVE HER!!!

Thanks. I went out later last night to pen up my birds and she was gone. Only 4 of the 6 chicks huddled in the box and feathers and egg shells everywhere. So I moved them to my pigeon coop under a heat lamp. Went after church to feed the chickens and there she was with half a tail and one chick. I figure a possum must have went in ate the eggs and chick and either tried to drag her away or she fought him all the way. Either way I learned a lesson, all possum, fox or raccoon that are caught in my chicken coop must be put down. If you want to keep chickens like your granfather you better learn to take care of the varmints like him as well. Needless to say she was happy to see her other chicks.

 

[Moochie]

Let's keep this thread alive n_n
Anyone notice how silkie mixes are very common?

These are my silkie/cochin mixes, Pucha and her 2 sisters. (Pucha is the black one)





The youngest is the dark blue one and in the back of the picture is Skippy's regular silkie offspring.

 

[snowpetals907]

That second one is gorgeous! I want to hug her

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Pics of my naked neck mixes.First set of pics are of a naked neck X red crested red polish.Second set of pics are of crested naked neck cross of unknown breeding.Bought her at auction last night.

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[ThiefPouter06]

Crested mixes! love em. Anyone know if you can go by early red combs of half bred polish to ID roosters? I have a polishXwyandotte mix that showed a red duplex com of sports after a few days but now (at 8 weeks) is built like a hen.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Crested mixes! love em. Anyone know if you can go by early red combs of half bred polish to ID roosters? I have a polishXwyandotte mix that showed a red duplex com of sports after a few days but now (at 8 weeks) is built like a hen.

Post a pic and we will give it a try.

 

[Moochie]

They remind me of vultures!

 

[aoxa]

Awesome pictures everyone! My mixed cochin x barred rocks were 15 weeks old Saturday, and check out their MASSIVE size compared to dad who is a year old, and very big for a barred rock rooster.

I am keeping the girls for eggs/broodies, and the boys will be used for meat. They look like they will serve their purpose, don't they?

Here is a pullet

Here is a size comparison. The father on the left - with a heritage type BR on the right - and the boy on the right is 4 weeks older then my mixes! Crazy!!

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

They remind me of vultures!

Thanks for the compliment.