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

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Right now here at the farmstead we still have the golden/lightbrown phoenix bantams but we have some bantam whites that came from the breeding pen that we will be hatching from this spring. Also have a khaki silver phoenix pullet who will be going with the golden cock to give some dun golden girls. Still working with black/blue sumatra bantams, working on getting bantam duns by breeding down. We have a pen setup to produce sexlinked easter eggers. I have tons of projects in my mind as always for various breeds as well

 

[kfacres]

Right now we've got several projects going on...

Blue Laced Red LF Cornish- and hopefully creating some solid white Cornish from these recessive birds

Standard Dark Cornish in both Large Fowl and bantam

Black SQ Ameraucanas- will also use this roo to cover our regular ole green and brown laying EE layer flock. (for eggs to eat and to fill the 'bator if needed.)

Blue Silkies- mainly just to reproduce natural 'bators.

Our two "projects" will be trying to get some BBW turkeys to reproduce successfully, and a pair of black Silkie cross birds from the same hatch- that we're planning on mating back together. They look like Silkies, but with normal feathering. It will be interesting to see what their offspring look like, and are built like.

 

[tay_boe]

I want to start a project mottled lavender orpingtons. Just for me to look at nothing that I would try to get approved. I have 1 mottled lavender chick, but I'm still looking for more. I'm also working on my tolbunts and I'm looking for something Chocolate. I really want something this color in my flock!

 

[nicalandia]

I am working on Naked Neck Cochin

broody hen

F1 Boy

 

[danielle82]

is anyone doing a crele easter egger with hopes of getting a crele ameracauna?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I don't think so, but my Chantecler boy could do that maybe...I know there are people working on barred and mottled Ameraucanas though.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I don't think so, but my Chantecler boy could do that maybe...I know there are people working on barred and mottled Ameraucanas though.

At the moment I'm working on Light and Coronation Sussex, and Seramas. Next spring I will be working on Splash and Lavender Cochins, and who knows what all.

~Aspen

 

[kfacres]

Like beating a dead horse... I have an idea...

I'm pasteing this here, as part of another post that I made earlier today. I felt it was along the same lines in terms of topic...

Now for thoughts on your meat bird project... I have the strong belief that a true, breeder quality/ seedstock cornish rooster can be a tremendous terminal sire on the average ole barnyard flock of hens, even as much on a flock of heritage or higher quality females. I think that they possess outstanding muscle and meat animal shaped carcasses. I do not believe that the hatchery quality Cornish is as good of an option-- as far too many times what I have seen coming from these lines isn't much better than the other hatchery quality chickens-- and if compared to a high quality, breeder bird of most other breeds... the hatchery quality cornish birds aren't as quality either. To me, when you think of carcass and meat bird potential... I rank the following in order: CX, BQ cornish, BQ other DP breeds, hatchery quality cornish, hatchery quality other DP breeds. The pure cornish are just too slow maturing to compare to the CX birds, IMO.

If I were into a project such as this... I would try out some starved CX pullets, some BQ DP birds, and some BQ cornish birds..> I would be gearing towards trying to create a consistant base of F1 CX(f)/ DP(m) (For males) birds and a F1 strain of Cornish(m)/ (cornish(m)/ DP(f)) (for females)birds...and try mating these two lines back with each other to create my end product.

Like this to clarrify: for those who won't be able to figure it out..

Strain 1- Cornish/ Rock X females mated to Dual Purpose males. Keep the males from this cross to use later.

Strain 2- Cornish Males mated to Dual P females... Keep the females..>Mate those daughters back to a Cornish... Keep the females..

Mate the males of Strain 1 to the final product females of strain 2.

Here's why I chose what I did... The CX males, will not be able to successfully cover very many females, even though the females will be terrible egg layers... you only need a few of their sons. We want to utilize their genetics, but minimize their exposure- thus keeping them on the sire side. Put those CX females under active, fertile DP roos- breed really doesn't matter.

DP hens for their laying ability in Strain 2- cover them with TRUE Cornish males as a terminal type sire... Keep female offspring-- come back on those females again with a Cornish roo-- can be their father, doesn't matter. Try keeping the egg laying abiltiy of the DP females through the generations. These should be far superior to the CX decendants, although not as good of a layer as a leghorn.

The end product would be 3/8 Dual Purpose, 3/8 True Cornish, and 1/4 Cornish/ Rock X. That's plenty enough hybrid vigor effect to generate practical, productive meat birds.

maybe I shouldn't have let out my secret???

Anyone want to join me in this experiement? I have the TRUE cornish, hardest part??? I also have the Cornish x DP birds already as a female base>

 

[jason180sx]

i am thinking on silkied pekin how would you do it?

 

[Blue]

I want to work on improving Brabanters in the US. I have some Golds that I plan to breed next spring. I also have some LF lemon blue project cochin chicks that I may work with next year. I'm not really sure how that will work; I have a lot of color variation in those chicks, and I'm thinking it may require more skill and genetic knowledge than I currently have. I also have a pair of Quail Old English Game Bantams that I'd like to breed because I love the color. Got a surprise trio of BLRWs with my Cochins, and I may work with them in the future because I'm really liking the way their color is coming in. I also have one self-blue bantam cochin hen that I'd like to eventually get a nice rooster for. Her type isn't the best, but I think I can work with it if she has a nice rooster to balance it out.

At any rate, the only projects I'm positive about right now are the Brabanters and the OEGBs. The others are just ones I'd like to work on but aren't priorities at the moment.