Mutt Chickens and Combining Breed Names

[bantiehen]

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[bantiehen]

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I like that combination very beautiful

 

[Moochie]

I guess Susrocks..

Thank you bantiehen! Another roo that we hatched out from the same batch came out almost all Light Sussex, with a few barred feathers here and there. There was another just like the one in the picture. I kind of wish I got some pullets from that hatch though. Would have been nice to see the egg production from the mix.

 

[chick-among-us]

awww that makes me sad you didn't like mine? but if it looks more like the sussex....

I tried

wow sorry for the edit my curser went nuts!

 

[aoxa]

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I like Sexrocks

 

[tadkerson]

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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

 

[HHandbasket]

Let's not get all serious here, now!

I'm not talking about developing a new breed or trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes about breed when it comes time to sell our excess chickens after having a big hatch or anything shady like that. Didn't mean to get any geneticists' nickers in a twist! I'm just talking about the average backyard flock keeper who has a mixed flock that sometimes interbreeds and creates interesting offspring.

I have 4 eggs in the bator laid by my silkie. Sometimes she gets mounted by the silkie roo, sometimes she gets mounted by the Spanish roo. If we get Spanish-silkie crosses, I'm going to call them "Spilkies". These are for my own personal flock & I'm not trying to start an argument or create a new breed or "sell" something that doesn't exist.... just meant this thread with a little light-hearted fun for those of us that have mixed flocks. I know I'm not the only person who combines names of things when something new is created.

 

[gryeyes]

You know I have cobrights (Cochin + Seabright) and Delaweggers and Orpingchins (Orpington + Cochin). I refer to them in that manner when talking to other chicken keeping folks. Or, occasionally, when a non-chicken person asks me what one is, and it's a mix, I say the silly name then explain the mix.

Easteramas or Brahmeggers (EE + Brahma)
Orpeasters (Orpington + EEs)

 

[chick-among-us]

me too! I understand the genetic part but they DON'T breed true anyhow so it isnt like there will be a new weido chicken running amuck! But there ARE people doing great things on here...one guy is doing a breed that is calico VERY cool and breeds true...I don't mind having some mixes for now but I dont show or anything..but I will be specializing soon so we will see how all THAT goes. I think I want to breed silkies and I won't want outside breeds in there at all. I call my mutts by thier mixed names brahmegger! love it. I would never sell a chicken without explaining its parentage and what to expect from mixed chickens and what they "beget" What am I TALKING about?

I've never even sold a chicken! I'm increasing my flock! Ive just ordered several purebred eggs.can't wait!

 

[catdaddyfro]

I too have Deleweggers and my other barnyard specials I call my whatchamacallits and they do breed true=more whatchamacallits

I think my bottom siggy line says enough for the ones who worry so much about us meek and lowly chicken farmers

coming up with a cross breed chicken that could dominate the whole world as we know it.

Have fun with all of ya'lls crosses folks, they are yours do as you please with them.

Jeff