If my partridge splash doesn't work out I may have to try using my buff sussex and see what I get, or maybe I should try both along side each other...
If my partridge splash doesn't work out I may have to try using my buff sussex and see what I get, or maybe I should try both along side each other...
Has anyone has much success housing two silkie roos with only a small number of hens? I want to if possible keep my boys together so they get along but soon I may be getting one possibly two hens. Along with moving my frizzle in with them that'd be 2-3 hens and I don't know if that's gonna work out with 2 boys.
I was thinking about the over breeding with so few hens. Bare backsIf my partridge splash doesn't work out I may have to try using my buff sussex and see what I get, or maybe I should try both along side each other...
Has anyone has much success housing two silkie roos with only a small number of hens? I want to if possible keep my boys together so they get along but soon I may be getting one possibly two hens. Along with moving my frizzle in with them that'd be 2-3 hens and I don't know if that's gonna work out with 2 boys.
My other options would be separate them or throw a couple sussex pullets in with them.
There is a thread I'm participating in where we are trying to decide the best route for calico splashes. I got one in this group from a BBO (f1) and a splash rooster (silkie)My other options would be separate them or throw a couple sussex pullets in with them.
I'm having such a hard time getting even a few correctly coloured hens
Do you remember which thread that was? I think I did reply to one to follow...
Correct on the silkie.. Her mother, a BBO was bred to my silver partridge silkie simply because he had no wives. Then that offspring and another BBO was put with the splash rooster. The F1 (First gen silkie mix) produced the lighter colors and more fluff.
Interestingly if I replace BBO with sussex I could almost do that exactly (my silver Partridge is also blue so I wonder how that'll effect it...)
Sussex are fairly different to Orpingtons though...If my partridge splash doesn't work out I may have to try using my buff sussex and see what I get, or maybe I should try both along side each other...
Has anyone has much success housing two silkie roos with only a small number of hens? I want to if possible keep my boys together so they get along but soon I may be getting one possibly two hens. Along with moving my frizzle in with them that'd be 2-3 hens and I don't know if that's gonna work out with 2 boys.
