Which BYC member scares you?

[Isadora]

Slightly better

 

[Isadora]

widdle head poofs

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

What's the issue with mixing breeds?

I know a lot of people do it, and that's cool. But especially if I were keeping heritage breeds, I would not want to go and randomly cross them just because? I feel like part of keeping some of these breeds would be to keep a healthy line of them going, so to me there would be no benefit to breeding say, Appleyard x WH ducklings. I don't have any roosters yet, but we have no plans to just let any males roam and just randomly do their thing, either. Any breeding, crosses or otherwise, would be intentional.

 

[Isadora]

I know a lot of people do it, and that's cool. But especially if I were keeping heritage breeds, I would not want to go and randomly cross them just because? I feel like part of keeping some of these breeds would be to keep a healthy line of them going, so to me there would be no benefit to breeding say, Appleyard x WH ducklings. I don't have any roosters yet, but we have no plans to just let any males roam and just randomly do their thing, either. Any breeding, crosses or otherwise, would be intentional.

Value in the birds also goes down when they're not purebred. When people are looking for birds to buy, they're not typically looking for a cross.

 

[Chookwagn]

Slightly better
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Cockerel

 

[Everose]

I know a lot of people do it, and that's cool. But especially if I were keeping heritage breeds, I would not want to go and randomly cross them just because? I feel like part of keeping some of these breeds would be to keep a healthy line of them going, so to me there would be no benefit to breeding say, Appleyard x WH ducklings. I don't have any roosters yet, but we have no plans to just let any males roam and just randomly do their thing, either. Any breeding, crosses or otherwise, would be intentional.

I hate perfectly good purebreds being crossed, blech.
I have my saxony and buff together atm because I'm just breeding for meat. They're all going into separate tractors soon for pure lines.

 

[Isadora]

Cockerel

 

[Painted Calls]

Cockerel

Yep

 

[Kiki]

@Kiki guess what she just had for supper.

Spoiler

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Oh my God Please tell me it was not raw meat! Memaw is that a precious dress?

 

[Chookwagn]

A lot of posturing going on with the new neighbors