starting the selection!

[KelsiNS]

Just recieved an email that my incubator will be here tuesday-so the selection process begins today. I plan on setting 20 eggs.

I will be raising roos for meat and thr hens will go into the flock.

So far i have selected
Sumatra/australorp x easter egger (2)
Rhode island red x rhode island red (2)
Buff orpington x easter egger (2)
White leghorn x easter egger (2)
Black australorp x rhode island red
Easter egger x easter egger (both blue genes) (4)
New hampshire x rhode island red (2)
Barred plymouth rock x rhode island red
Barred plymouth rock x easter egger (2)
Red comet x rhode island red
New hampshire x easter egger

Since i want meaty birds im choosing the heaviest hens-but if i hatch more pullets i am also selecting my most reliable layers (just in case im the 1/1000000 that ends up with more pullets).

Im excited to see my mutts-i can only imaginethe patterns some of these birds could end up with!

 

[Kelsie2290]

Good luck with your hatch! Sounds like you will have a nice assortment of EE and red chicks. Especially keeping fingers crossed you get blue laying pullets from the White Leghorn X EE eggs, they make wonderful laying EEs.