Yeah, I've seen chicken saddles; I'm hoping not to have to use them or at least to be able to avoid it as much as possible: I'm in Western Washington and textiles don't last long in my climate. Time will tell, I suppose.
The Chicken Calculator is one thing; there was a chart of pairings for producing sex-links that was on the BYC forum some time in the past month, but now that I need to look at it I can't find it, oh, well.
I'm not sure exactly what level of economic involvement I'm going for with the chicken stuff; I live on a beef cattle farm, and I'm finding that I have habits of thought which are not compatible with keeping breeding animals as pets- just supplying the family with eggs might be the level I'm comfortable with, or selling hatching eggs, or raising some cockerals for gourmet meat sales from the farm. My daughter thinks we should learn to caponize and feed out heavy roasters: I think she reads too many cooking blogs. I like Wyandottes, and have since my Grandmother used to talk about her flock when I was tiny, but I don't have the money to get SQ birds, and I'm having conflict over adding to the number of pet-quality ones on the market (mine are not hatchery birds, but they're also not SG).
Oh, well, late at night and contemplative, again.
They would look like the tetra tints I picked up at TSC but in a wyandotte shape. But heh, if you just want chicks to sell at a swap or on craigslist, have at it.
