The Underappreciated Hybrids Thread

[chickengr]

Olive Egger, my best guess is cuckoo Marans mixed with cream crested legbar

I have cuckoo legbar hybrids. hens look exactly like your OE.

my hybrids are probably mixed with plymouth rock.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Wow @chickengr how do you candle an egg that dark?? I've been served overpriced "coffee" with less color...

 

[chickengr]

Wow @chickengr how do you candle an egg that dark?? I've been served overpriced "coffee" with less color...

my broodies never candle, lol.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Still waiting for any member of my flock to show some tendency in that direction. None of my hatchery DP birds are showing any interest whatsoever in sitting an egg, the Comets seem to have all broodiness bred out of them, and the Brahma didn't really start laying before winter hit, so I broke down and bought an incubator.

Maybe come spring, I will have your fortune. those are gorgeous eggs.

 

[Mmanist]

This is my polish Frizzle x silkie roo. I’m unsure how his offspring would pan out with his ladies (crested cream legbar, barnevelders, Olive Egger and sex links ) but I just may try! View attachment 2425827

I love him!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Still waiting for any member of my flock to show some tendency in that direction. None of my hatchery DP birds are showing any interest whatsoever in sitting an egg, the Comets seem to have all broodiness bred out of them, and the Brahma didn't really start laying before winter hit, so I broke down and bought an incubator.

Maybe come spring, I will have your fortune. those are gorgeous eggs.

If it helps, I had a dark brahma for about 5 years and she never went broody the entire 21 days. She was hatchery stock though tok

 

[U_Stormcrow]

If it helps, I had a dark brahma for about 5 years and she never went broody the entire 21 days. She was hatchery stock though tok

TY for the cautionary warning. Mine are hatchery too. So I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about "biting the bullet" and buying an incubator.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

TY for the cautionary warning. Mine are hatchery too. So I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about "biting the bullet" and buying an incubator.

Nah, what is funny though is I had a black sexlink that actually hatched out ducks. Never chickens but she was determined enough to hatch out those weird eggs that were larger than her own AND she was a good mother to them. Never thought that would happen.

So I would personally buy the incubator and try to let the brahma hatch. Of she does, great. If she doesn't, then that's why you have a bator

 

[chickengr]

my naked neck girl went broody for the first time at 3 yo. there is a hope!

 

[ronkonkoma]

This cutie if from my breeding. I mixed a Silkie naked neck with a Silkie Cochin mix And he was the result