Which cock is more suitable for breeding?

[Ramouila]

Dear wonderful chicken comrades,

I hope you are all well, just as well hope your favorite chickens are doing.

I am looking for a good rooster for further breeding. I try to breed the Jersey Giant breed. We have no jerseys here to orientate myself to it. So I rely on your help and advice to create the jerseys here locally. I can't get any jerseys either because I live in Gaza and couldn't have access to jerseys. I love the American friends and i try to live the american dream in gaza too . I would be very grateful for any advice.

I feed barley and corn "maize", the age is currently 4 months and the weight is around 2.2 kg.

I'm in the 7 generation and I guess it takes another 7 generations to have stable properties

P.S. I am currently orientated towards the external appearance, but I know it is very difficult to have the exact characteristics like growth rate and growth size and number and size of eggs, for that I would have to have the same blood line from the same rooster and hen.

I hope there will be no Australorps at the end.

Here are the kids for the next breeding stage. Which do you think would be more suitable, the first two or the last two? and what should I pay attention to next?

Greetings from your friend from Gaza.

 

[nchls school]

Hello from Tennessee. The best I can tell you is to look over your roosters and pick the one that is closest to what your breeding for. Just as important is to pick hens that have traits your breeding for and continue picking the best traits with each generation. I am doing something similar with my Phoenix/Yokohama long tailed chickens. I have used serama bantam and Polish to strengthen the breed. I will soon be hatching

my fourth generation. Above is a picture of my third generation rooster; looking almost exactly like a golden Phoenix.

 

[Ramouila]

Thanks nchls,

I see you are doing a good job ! you deserve all respect

Thanks for the advice, i will continue as you tell. Something great will definitely come out of it.

Much love from out there!

 

[nchls school]

You're most welcome. I hope you post pictures of future generations. Good luck.

 

[Amer]

Personally, I prefer the first cockerel and the last pullet.
While it is hard to tell from the photos, their body type, with a lower tail set and a larger body cavity, along with the wider heads and darker legs, makes for the best birds.
Also, I would recommend feeding animal protein if commercially mixed feed is not available. Without the extra protein, birds will never reach their full size and potential.

 

[Ramouila]

@ Ameraucanas4re

I take your advice to heart. Very good advice thank you very much. I hope I could show you some successful photos soon.

 

[nchls school]

I use dry dog food soaked in water to soften it for added protein in the winter when bugs and worms are not available for my free range flock. Other feeds are used also to give a balanced diet.
Where certain feeds are not available or during financial difficulties dog food can be an alternative to high-protein feed.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Curious you're not trying to create a bird more like Australorps. For utility it's qualities are far superior to a bird like Jersey Giant. Jersey Giants were a complete failure for their intended niche. They only survive due to oddity of large size and their emergence as a breed was during a time of conservancy of breeds. Otherwise it would have died off, it's a poor utility bird. The Austral breeding of Orpingtons was bent on utility.

To breed for dual purpose birds the body type you want to use is wide from shoulders to tail. Work on that wide back to be complete length of bird. In so the tail with tent wide. Another dual purpose bird standard. Full breast not a hatcheted chest. Keep working to body type. In that the first cock and last pullet as stated above are the best birds to move forward.

You've got yellow skin and making for all black birds or blue. The first pullet looks blue, should throw blue and black birds if mated to black cock. You're at a time when the final product- feather color, amount of dark leg wash and so forth need to be on your mind to work into breeding.

If blue variety is the goal then use both pullets. You want to mate the last pullet but may need to also carry the blue genetics forward.

Good luck