These are my smaller barnyard mutts, heavy on the Olandsk Dwarf, bantam Barred Rock, and bantam Cochin blood. Sweet dispositions and easy to handle. Easy to hatch, they typically pip and zip with little fuss. Perfect for an urban homestead, these will lay a nice sized egg - two of these bantam...
These are my smaller barnyard mutts, heavy on the Olandsk Dwarf, bantam Barred Rock, and bantam Cochin blood. Sweet dispositions and easy to handle. Easy to hatch, they typically pip and zip with little fuss. Perfect for an urban homestead, these will lay a nice sized egg - two of these bantam...
Last year I hatched out entirely too many Poofybottoms. Please consider saving me from the mountains of perfect, glossy, creamy tan eggs. Eggs will be coming from my pen of Bantam Cochin/Bantam Barred Rock ladies covered by a Bantam Cornish/Olandsk Dwarf rooster. If you'd like, I can also add...
Mr. Guapo has been working hard all winter to woo his ladyfriends. He listens carefully to their concerns, finds them the nicest pieces of scratch, and dances for all of them even when they aren't interested in his shenanigans. He never gets mad unless that jerk Redtailed Hawk flies overhead...
Vacation is over, it's stinky brooder time. We have been having a ridiculous amount of rain here in Southern California which means chicks in the dining nook. Normally I am strict on keeping the chicks/chickens outside but with all the wind and rain it's just too much for those little guys.
My...
I second pressure cooking, makes the meat really tender.
I had my NN rooster running with the girls last month in my old pens but wasn't sure if he was doing the job,
Guess he's doing just fine!
The Ideal NN cockerels were a really mixed bag. There was one extremely tiny dwarf one shaped like a grapefruit I was tempted to keep but I had to keep focused, this was for a meaties project! Some really scrawny thin ones too. The good thing is they were cheap and the culls make for some...
He's from Ideal Poultry. Bought twenty, culled down to two earlier this year, I kept this one because I like his almost laced/spangled feathers :)
I'm going to see how the kids turn out from this cross and hopefully I can just work with picking the meatiest ones. I'm always tempted to cheat...
Our breeding pens are finally done and I moved in this big guy and his Bresse/Trader Joes girlfriends in with him. The problem is he turned out way more giant than I thought he was going to be, all the girls come up to his shoulders!
Just popped a dozen TJs in the bator - Wednesday afternoon we are showing my sons kindergarten class what a developing egg looks like! I was too stingy to use my own purebred eggs
Brabanters are truly great birds, sweet disposition, easy to handle, crests, beards, and an interesting pattern. And icing on the cake - awesome layers of large white eggs. Thrifty eaters.
The bad - really difficult to try to obtain a good rooster.
This is our girl Lola earlier this year...
I will be trying that with three pens (single breed), but have the hens stationary (swapping out with their daughters as they get older) and having the cockerels move down a pen every year. I don't know if I am describing it correctly.
Edit - I just realized you mean for your crosses. I...