What breeding projects are you working on or you want to work on.

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Sounds very interesting!

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy adopted a chick that came from her egg!

It's the same as the other chick I hatched out, Blue JG X White Silkie X Sultan.

 

[Buns]

I am working on a lavender australorp project with approx 16 F1 pullets (australorp hen x lavender orpington roo) at present. Pullets are approaching breeding age.

I am also working on a mille fleur cochin project. I have five F1 hens that are approaching breeding age and an unrelated mille fleur roo in with them. I have probably five more F1 female chicks sired by the same mille fleur roo that are still in the brooder, so it's yet to be seen how they will color out.

Rupert, our young rooster

left to right: Sweet Pea, Morning Glory, and Lily. All F1 pullets, are penned with Rupert.

Pullet on the right is Daffy (Daffodil), also penned with Rupert.

Buttercup, the last pullet in the project at this time is on the left in this photo. She is from the same hatch as Sweet Pea, Morning Glory, and Lily, but she did not color out. She does not let it bother her.

A bossy girl, she is.

I do not have photos of my australorps and lav orps at this time, but will be taking some to share later.

 

[ninjascrub69]

Psh, too many

...... The project im putting most of my time in right now is an agressive layer. It's not for fighting at all, i just find that the most agressive roos (not towards humans but towards other roos) are the best at defending their flock. I am currently using a minorca rooster over a saipan jungle fowl hen. So far its working out perty good (only a few hens were poor layers, but they were culled). I will try to post pics as soon as i get my camera fixed.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Interesting project ...

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Hehe, I've already killed one thread with this, but I have a pen going for next spring to start the ultimate Alaskan chicken. A large, extremely cold hardy bird that is a good layer, grows fast enough to finish the cockerels out to a good size in our short summer, reproduces well and goes broody, and has a couple of my favorite aesthetic features such as the beards/muffs.

Here's the breeding pen for spring: 3 Buff Brahma pullets (currently recovering from being at the bottom of the pecking order in the Delaware pen,) 5 spangled Orloff pullets, and a Buff Chantecler cockerel.

Planning on breeding the offspring of these two crosses to each other. A separate cross would be Ameraucana with either a Cornish or a Barred Rock, depending on whether my first crosses are lacking growth rate or meat qualities most. The F2 Chantecler crosses would be bred to the Ameraucana crosses. (The Ameraucana influence is purely for aesthetic value, I admit! I want to be sure I retain the beards and muffs, plus, I wouldn't mind some colored egg genes in there.)

I'm excited!

This project will be going on while I'm also working on my Delawares and Orloffs. The focus on all of my breeding projects is utility first. Laying ability, cold hardiness, growth rates, and meat qualities will always take precedence over colors and combs.

 

[bald k9]

I am going to try and hatch my own chicks , I have black/partrige showgirls and bearded white silkies I just want to see what i woujld get and to hatch a few chicks for the kids [family project] any idea on what the chicks might turn out to be???thanks for your help

 

[stoneunhenged]

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You may want to consider adding a few hedemora genes to the ultimate cold weather bird. They continue to lay eggs down to 5°F in the winter. Good luck!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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You may want to consider adding a few hedemora genes to the ultimate cold weather bird. They continue to lay eggs down to 5°F in the winter. Good luck!

I think they're just now working on importing them, and I'm not able to foot the pricetag on those beauties! I can tell you, however, that only the best winter layers will be kept for spring breedings, as we are below freezing from at least November-March, and below zero for sometimes a month plus! I should know by the spring season who's cutting it and who isn't.

 

[ninjascrub69]

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GENIUS!

 

[tls_ranch]

Blue double laced Barnevelders

are what I'm working on. By next fall I should have some that are showing double lacing and looking more like a Barnevelder.

My Barnevelder roo

crossed with splash blue laced wyandottes with a single combs

equals F1 blue laced pullets. They are bigger than their mothers and my pure Barnevelder hens. Several show faint double lacing.

Then I going to cross the F1 pullets with my new "mostly unrelated" cockerels in the spring.

Hopefully someday I will get:

NOT my birds, I found this picture on the internet and these are from Europe.