What would YOU do?

[AShelDuck1]

My current flock:

16 hens
-1 biele/orpington mix
-2 lavender Orpington
-1 buff Orpington
-2 lavender/buff Orpington
-10 bielefelder hens

2 roosters (bielefelder)

I have 21 in the incubator
12 of a mixed Easter Egger (Orpington, prairie blue bell, Easter Egger BYM) batch that I got for only $5
2 of the lavender bielefelder mix because I want to see what happens
2 of the harvest bielefelder mix because I wanted to see what happened
4 bielefelder that had lavender bloom because I thought that was a cool trait to pass on

I also got some discount chicks for $3/ea I was hoping were barred rock hens to increase egg supply. But I’m thinking they were descriptively labeled straight run and were actually discard roosters because I’m thinking it’s 100% roosters. And that doesn’t seem right in statistics.

I was going to add 8 straight run whiting true blue before I got the cheap Easter Eggers.


My GOALS:
I wanted to introduce color variation to my eggs.
Manage good meat quality
High egg production
Efficient feed to meat/egg ratio
Capacity is 40 in an enclosed run with grazing boxes, treats, etc.

QUESTION:
What would you do? Keep the True Blue order? Or just work with what you have?

I’ve spiralled myself into overthinking to the point I don’t know what I want to do anymore

 

[cavemanrich]

Efficient feed to meat/egg ratio

I’ve spiralled myself into overthinking to the point I don’t know what I want to do anymore

Let me offer my views;
If you need efficient ratios,, Top for eggs are white leghorns. Then sexlinks follow close. Everything else is well down the line.
Meat birds; well the Cornish rock cross, and Red ranger broilers are good.

Now to overthinking
Just do your best, and enjoy it,
See which layers are the most stable for your flock dynamics. ( this means which chickens get along well with most of the flock)
Hatching your own chicks results in approximately 50% roos. (I know they are cockerel until one year old) Raise them to decent size, and then eat them. Remember this. Rooster lives a good life with just one bad moment. Much better than what hatcheries do to their extra cockerels at day old


WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[AShelDuck1]

Let me offer my views;
If you need efficient ratios,, Top for eggs are white leghorns. Then sexlinks follow close. Everything else is well down the line.
Meat birds; well the Cornish rock cross, and Red ranger broilers are good.

Now to overthinking
Just do your best, and enjoy it,
See which layers are the most stable for your flock dynamics. ( this means which chickens get along well with most of the flock)
Hatching your own chicks results in approximately 50% roos. (I know they are cockerel until one year old) Raise them to decent size, and then eat them. Remember this. Rooster lives a good life with just one bad moment. Much better than what hatcheries do to their extra cockerels at day old


WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I thought about getting a few leghorns.

I wasn’t going to get meat birds because I was also trying to manage a heritage breed. I forgot to include that in my list.