Mutt Chickens and Combining Breed Names

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Oh, Oh I know! 'Buffalorp'!

(BOXAustralorp)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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He is really cute! He looks like he has EE in him

Ummm, WHY?

I'd have likely called them silkishes rather than polikes, though

 

[aoxa]

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He is really cute! He looks like he has EE in him

Ummm, WHY?

I'd have likely called them silkishes rather than polikes, though

All the colours and the beard reminds me of EEs - Anything is possible with mutts

I like Silkieshes better too

I have a silkie roo and two polish girls (as well as three other silkie girls). Wonder if I should mix them just for fun

How would these two breeds combined make egg laying? Is it awful? I have a polish x SS hamburg and she lays like a gem. Every day - until she went broody. Now I've been eggless from her for two weeks.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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pretty

thanks

i wish they were a real breed. they're good layers and broodies and the rooster was super friendly!

Hybred vigor.

I've heard of rock islands

And I have a rose combed barred rock (anyone want him?)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Ummm, WHY?

I'd have likely called them silkishes rather than polikes, though

All the colours and the beard reminds me of EEs - Anything is possible with mutts

I like Silkieshes better too

I have a silkie roo and two polish girls (as well as three other silkie girls). Wonder if I should mix them just for fun

How would these two breeds combined make egg laying? Is it awful? I have a polish x SS hamburg and she lays like a gem. Every day - until she went broody. Now I've been eggless from her for two weeks.

I just get really annoyed in the What Breed or Gender section when it seems like 99% of the time people say EE, when there are plenty of other breeds or crosses that are more likely. Not all mutts are EEs; EEs are not the only breed with green legs, muffs & beard, lots of colour variations.

My silkieXpolish lay quite well, but I cannot say that I keep exact track. Many hybrid crosses lay better than their parent breeds.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I like subar, and for plural, subaru

Then you can have the subaru coop.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Are you sure he is a barred rock and sussex cross? He should be black with barring? The only way he could be a barred rock and sussex cross would be if the barred rock was a hybrid or heterozygous at the E locus.

I think the problem with giving hybrids names is that some people will use it to sell chickens that do not breed true. I have seen the same thing for varieties of certain breeds that are not true breeders. If the naming thing gets popular, then individuals will start selling hamlegs and rhodelegs etc. as if they are a new breed when they are actually a hybrid. Not everyone knows about the APA Standards and I can see someone advertising a rare new breed that only they sell and getting a lot of money for a hybrid. What a rip off!
If a person can produce a new breed with different characteristics more power to them but it must breed true in type and variety and consistently express the genotype of the breed.


Tim

Yep. His dad was a Light Sussex and his mom is a Barred Rock. I have no hybrid chickens, mutts, but no hybrids. I would love to see a duck-chicken hybrid though! The barred rock hens, I got them from a rancher who breeds chickens for laying and meat. He does have show quality birds, I did get a couple of cochins from him that grew out beautifully. I don't think he breeds them specifically for show, but he does have them. He keeps all the birds seperate too, cochins, SLWs, barred rocks, NHRs, easter eggers, all kept seperate. The Light Sussex roo came from a local person who bought him and his brothers as youngins at a bird show.
In March when a broody hatched them, there was another that came out just like him, an almost identical version of the dad (light sussex), and 2 that were black with barring. Unfortunately all roosters.

Hey what about a name for silkie/easter eggers? I have 2 of those!

Hybrid is a correct term for breed crosses as well as for species crosses.

 

[Kassaundra]

All chickens and humans for that matter have "mixed parentage", we all come from one male and one female ................................................................ doesn't get any more "different" then that!!!

 

[Chris09]

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thanks

i wish they were a real breed. they're good layers and broodies and the rooster was super friendly!

Hybred vigor.

I've heard of rock islands

And I have a rose combed barred rock (anyone want him?)

Rose Comb Rock isn't that what hatcheries call a Dominique?

Chris

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

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Hybred vigor.

I've heard of rock islands

And I have a rose combed barred rock (anyone want him?)

Rose Comb Rock isn't that what hatcheries call a Dominique?

Chris

Now that's good!