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- Feb 28, 2022
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I hope this is the right place to ask. I'm interested in learning more about the genetics of our flock mostly for fun, and a little for what to expect when breeding next year and for rooster selection.
We started out with Bovan Browns, then got a couple Barnyard mixed birds and though the Bovans are great producers, we found ourselves enjoying the mixed breed birds more, mainly because we could tell them apart. (And actually our two mixed hens lay almost as consistently as the red hens.)
So our goal with breeding is to have colorful replacement birds that hopefully also lay a good amount of eggs.
I've been trying to make some predictions using the Kippenjungle chicken calculator but it's hard when I'm not sure what I'm working with. I know that they'll probably have lots of hidden genes but I'd love just to know which ones might be obvious to someone more experienced.
These first four are barnyard mixes we got together from the same breeder as 6week olds last year. If it helps, below is also a list of at least some of the breeds that the breeder had at the time although there might have been others as well, and it's possible she might not have had her purebreds separated out at the time. Basically a little bit of everything. Lol
Roosters
Beardo has a bit of a beard and some leg feathering.
Rusty is clean legged.
Our hens...
Angel has a little crest, a bit of a beard maybe, and clean legs. Not showing here, but she has one or two black feathers on her back.
Rose has feathered legs. (And they used to be a lot more orange than they are now apparently.) And I'm not sure what kind of comb, but not single combed. We hatched out chicks from her that had similar combs as her, one with a pea comb and one single combed chick.
I saw a post once about the genetics behind pretty much all the red sex link layering varieties but I can't find it now.
Here are most of the chicks we hatched from these birds.
We started out with Bovan Browns, then got a couple Barnyard mixed birds and though the Bovans are great producers, we found ourselves enjoying the mixed breed birds more, mainly because we could tell them apart. (And actually our two mixed hens lay almost as consistently as the red hens.)
So our goal with breeding is to have colorful replacement birds that hopefully also lay a good amount of eggs.
I've been trying to make some predictions using the Kippenjungle chicken calculator but it's hard when I'm not sure what I'm working with. I know that they'll probably have lots of hidden genes but I'd love just to know which ones might be obvious to someone more experienced.
These first four are barnyard mixes we got together from the same breeder as 6week olds last year. If it helps, below is also a list of at least some of the breeds that the breeder had at the time although there might have been others as well, and it's possible she might not have had her purebreds separated out at the time. Basically a little bit of everything. Lol
Roosters
Beardo has a bit of a beard and some leg feathering.
Rusty is clean legged.
Our hens...
Angel has a little crest, a bit of a beard maybe, and clean legs. Not showing here, but she has one or two black feathers on her back.
Rose has feathered legs. (And they used to be a lot more orange than they are now apparently.) And I'm not sure what kind of comb, but not single combed. We hatched out chicks from her that had similar combs as her, one with a pea comb and one single combed chick.
I saw a post once about the genetics behind pretty much all the red sex link layering varieties but I can't find it now.
Here are most of the chicks we hatched from these birds.
