MBC=Mixed Breed Chicken
I have several pure breeds (RIR, Buff Orp, BBS Orp, Ameraucana, Brahma, Sussex, Delaware, Barred Rock, Welsummer) and love them all, but my mutt chickens add color and personality to the flock. Here are some of mine:
Glenda. Blue Orp x Buff Brahma. Terrific broody!
Meg. RIR x Buff Orpington. With parents from exhibition stock, she's my heaviest hen!
The PoufyHead Sisters, Kate, Tux and Olivia..Cochin/Silkie sire x BR mom, pictured in that order. Olivia and Tux have been broody. Kate was the first chick to ever hatch in an incubator here--pipped and zipped in 15 minutes! Wouldn't take $1000 for any one of these girls:
Though I sold him as a youngster, here is the brother of the Poufy Head Sisters...see the sexlinked traits? Male=barred and Female= Solid.
My Barred Easter Eggers (BR x BBS Ameraucana)Panda, daughter of Zane with Charlotte. Panda lays a roundish green egg, sometimes with tan speckles on it.
The 8 wk old Barred EEs (BR/Ameraucana):
I have several pure breeds (RIR, Buff Orp, BBS Orp, Ameraucana, Brahma, Sussex, Delaware, Barred Rock, Welsummer) and love them all, but my mutt chickens add color and personality to the flock. Here are some of mine:
Glenda. Blue Orp x Buff Brahma. Terrific broody!
Meg. RIR x Buff Orpington. With parents from exhibition stock, she's my heaviest hen!
The PoufyHead Sisters, Kate, Tux and Olivia..Cochin/Silkie sire x BR mom, pictured in that order. Olivia and Tux have been broody. Kate was the first chick to ever hatch in an incubator here--pipped and zipped in 15 minutes! Wouldn't take $1000 for any one of these girls:
Though I sold him as a youngster, here is the brother of the Poufy Head Sisters...see the sexlinked traits? Male=barred and Female= Solid.
My Barred Easter Eggers (BR x BBS Ameraucana)Panda, daughter of Zane with Charlotte. Panda lays a roundish green egg, sometimes with tan speckles on it.
The 8 wk old Barred EEs (BR/Ameraucana):