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Breeding plans for 2010?

Mon, Jan 18 2010 06:59pm GMT 1
Poultry Talk. com Team
Poultry Talk. com Team
389 Posts

Have you got any breeding plans for 2010?
Any breeds/colours you want to experiment with?
Any breeds you are trying for the first time or maybe you are going to try and hatch some chicks for the first time?

Tell and share with us here.

Regards,
Jamie.

Mon, Jan 18 2010 08:26pm GMT 2
BigBrahma
BigBrahma
64 Posts

Lots of Serama, and modern game bantams in white, black red, silver birchen, lemon blue and silver blue. Did have a cuckoo pekin stag that I wanted to put with some silver and gold partridge pullets to breed silver and gold crele but sadly he isn't well so I think I will have to cull him.

Mon, Jan 18 2010 08:47pm GMT 3
drew.paterson
drew.paterson
108 Posts
i will concontrate on the everbergs and serama, i will be breeding the columbian watermeals and hopefully geting a millefluer hen to go with them to make silver millefluer. will try and sort out some duccles this year and maybe some modern game. some more sutch bantams would be nice tho. with the brahmas i will be hatching golds bluepatridge and hopefully making blue silver.
Wed, Jan 20 2010 01:41pm GMT 4
happylittlehenny
happylittlehenny
104 Posts
Im concentrating on my serama,I have put my littlest male Dinky into my breeding pen to see what he can do. Fingers crossed he's big enough to sort them ladies out! Julia x x
Sun, Feb 21 2010 04:33pm GMT 5
REDWING
REDWING
3 Posts

This year concentrating on making flock sizes larger as i know what my faverolles breed ,then i have larger pens to pick show stock from .salmon favs,cock breeder &pullet breeders,Cuckoo favs, Ermine favs,Hopefully going to produce millefleur faverolles in large fowl.

Tue, Feb 23 2010 07:22pm GMT 6
poppydog66
poppydog66
18 Posts
Just ordered my first incubator, cant wait, we re going to try and hatch our own home grown eggs, so they ll be Marran x warren or goldline! Hopefully we ll have some success as burdie is a frisky cockerel
Alex
Tue, Feb 23 2010 08:07pm GMT 7
Lexi
Lexi
35 Posts
Good luck everyone with their hatching.

We shall be hatching brahmas, faverolles and leghorns from our own stock.

Hopefully orpingtons later on in the year as we have a blue cockerel coming. Unfortunately our hens aren't too well at the moment but we are hoping with some antibiotics at the moment they will recover.

Also getting in some ixworth hatching eggs, mainly for meat.

Fri, Mar 5 2010 12:34pm GMT 8
Jubilee
Jubilee
81 Posts
We'll be hatching Buff orps, Black orps, White orps, but mainly concentrating on improving our Jubilee and Spangled orps. The Spangled we started last year, from two hens, and as no one had any cocks in that colour we have had to make one using a black, all the subsiquent hens are black but carry the mottled gene, and will now go back to the best cockerel we bred, we did manage to find a spangled boy late last year, but he was a baby, a late hatch, so this has stunted his growth a little, and he's not a great 'type' but he's not too bad, so he might get a chance to perform a bit later on, just to see what comes out over the two original spangled hens! phew! need to lie down now!
JubesX
Tue, Mar 9 2010 07:52pm GMT 9
kirstyfern
kirstyfern
13 Posts
I'm putting my blue orp boy to my buff orp girls, also breeding buff cochins, red mottled leghorns, white leghorns and pekins and frizzles when they start laying!

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