Cross Breed Chickens, Heritage Barnyard Mixes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- This video is the last in a series of updates about our cross breed chickens, now 5 months old (20 weeks) and nearly at full maturity. These are barnyard mixes from our heritage breeds: Barred Rock, Isa Brown, Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Delaware, Leghorn, Silkie, and Cochins. Specific crosses are listed below with the time they are presented. Though this update is the most accurate X breed and gender of each chick, also check out previous updates, linked below, to learn more details about each chick and to see each set of parent hen and rooster. Thanks for checking out this video!
Cross Breed Types:
1:20 Isa Brown X Barred Rock hen
1:36 Barred Rock X Barred Rock hen
1:51 Delaware X Easter Egger rooster
2:06 Cochin X Barred Rock rooster
2:22 Cochin X Barred Rock rooster
2:36 Isa Brown X Barred Rock hen
2:53 Easter Egger X Barred Rock rooster
3:07 Easter Egger X Easter Egger hen
3:22 Easter Egger X Easter Egger rooster
3:39 Easter Egger X Barred Rock rooster
3:55 Olive Egger X Easter Egger rooster
4:11 Olive Egger X Barred Rock hen
4:25 Cochin X Easter Egger hen
4:40 Olive Egger X Barred Rock rooster
4:55 Easter Egger X Leghorn rooster
5:10 Isa Brown X Easter Egger rooster
5:25 Cochin X Easter Egger hen
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The isa brown x Easter effect made me laugh, I’ve never seen a chicken that color with cheek feathers 😃
These barnyard mutts have lots of personality!
They are beautiful! last year I spent the entire season buying hatching eggs & chicks of all the rare breeds I could find and at the end of the year thanks to predators, bad hatches, etc.. I ended up with a lot of great breeds but having only one left by this Spring so instead of doing it all over again I have decided to work on crossbreeding the ones I have left and I have hatched some amazing babies so far this year. I have 2 crosses that everyone is wanting, Silkie/Breese & Ayam Ketawa/Indio Gigante but I'm waiting until I get another generation going before I let any go. "Real" breeds are fun but crossbreeds are funner!
Oh my goodness, your crosses sound precious. I want some, too! What a lovely idea to cross your lucky survivors in your flock, and sorry for your predator loss. Your sweet cross breed flock sounds so beautiful and special. I agree, crosses are so fun! No two are alike. They are unique gems. Lots of luck to your one-of-a-kind flock, and thanks for commenting!
Cant find this kind of information on net thank you. well
Thanks
I enjoyed seeing all the stages at once
We are trying to find out who the rooster was or what kind made the first chick we ever hatched
It was the only one that hatched that round anyway so he's a big suck and a great pet rooster
He protects my rir hens his moms/aunties
His dad got a couple hens before we got them and decided to hatch the eggs
As said he's the only one
He has the barring gene from his dad that's all I know he was probably a mixed chicken too
I just think it's cool trying to crack a mini mystery lol
We hatched several different kinds this year from mixes last year it's pretty cool finding out what they look like and who's the parents
Interesting video well done
I would love to see your flock. They sound so beautiful and unique. Hmm, so a mystery roo with barring? There are so many possibilities. It was not long ago that the barring gene being passed along in my flock was actually from a barred olive egger and not a barred rock as I had guessed. Sometimes random genes from the grandparent and great grandparents pop up seemingly out of nowhere! Good luck on solving the mystery of the mixed breeds in your flock 😀
@@SayWhyChickenThigh thanks yes we have a pretty unique flocks because the red hens don't like the little birds so we have 2 flocks
@@SayWhyChickenThigh with our rooster mystery I keep forgetting that my welsumer went broody and the eggs were the rir or mixed red hens they hatched one chick started yellow but soon turned white lol
The mystery rooster was the dad and it could have been rir or welsumer mum
I can't understand why I have a white chick
This is a great mystery that's OK solved or not :)
We are not breeding this flock but might cross the rooster with Easter Eggers eventually
Oh ya the rir red hens are feather sex able at birth yellow or red so they would have that genetics too
But may not be a rooster because it's not feather sex able with crosses...... Keep forgetting more than I'm learning
Chicken math lol
HI, nice video,......! I have over 200 birds from TINY serama,.... to LG WYANDOTTES. I am a retired zoo keeper. Into only poultry now.
Anyway, I noticed,... anything crossed with a barred rock, produces a lot of black, which I like. Black java , ancestors, in barred rock ETC.
Also noticed, anything crossed with olive EGGER, produced the small combs.
Also noticed anything crossed with the Cochin, didn't get ALOT of leg feathering, but nice faces, color. At present IM crossing bantams, for color , and cold hardiness, cause I live in the Adirondack mountains of upstate N.Y. gets very cold... INTERESTING video... New subscriber........ Thanks
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Ah, thank you so much! I'm honored to have feedback from an exceptionally knowledgeable zookeeper & poultry enthusiast! Thanks so much 🙏
@@SayWhyChickenThigh And I am honored, that you are honored. After the zoo, I moved to
, Adirondack mountains of upstate N.Y. I worked for 10 YRS, at the ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO, Providence, Rhode Island.
My wife is from here. Raised LLAMAS , aurora goats, BRED Maremma LIVESTOCK guardian dogs etc,.... had all kinds of PARROTS, poultry.
I was very successful in showing GOLDEN LACED SEBRIGHT BANTAMS. That became boring, cookie cutter CHICKENS.
I like the CROSSES, and the surprise, of getting all the varied FEATHER patterns, leg coloring comb types ETC.
I'm always trying new breeds. Last yr. I got some BUCKEYES,.... Really like them now, also some DOMINIKERS, DOMINIQUES.
I HAVE : Dutch bantams Wyandotte bantams, SEBRIGHTS, and got into the tiny SERAMA. CUTE CUTE, BUT CANT HANDLE THE COLD.
ANYWAY THIS YEAR, IVE Ordered BLUE AUSTRALORP s, and various colors of BELGIAN D ANVERS BANTAMS.... OK, ALL THE Best...
Your videos are great......Thank you......Ron S.
Well that's where they get black stars from! Just another worthless crossbreed!
You never know exactly how each chick will turn out with these delightful mutts! Obviously, these videos are just for fun and aren't intended to identify specific genetics. It's been a joy watching this hatch of 18 develop and grow and I feel lucky to have been able to document each new life phase. I love learning from fellow chicken enthusiasts and hearing about the variations within your flocks and hearing about the similarities and differences. I'll have to keep a lookout for more black stars. Thanks
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i enjoyed seeing the little chicks till they are grown.
your only one off 2 youtubers that documented the mixed breeds, i would like too see so much more of this !!
I especially like the easter egger and olive legger mixes.
I just started with a small mix of 1 rooster Deathlayer Chicks (Westphalian Totleger), 5 hens: 2mix, 1 welsumer, 1 creme legbar, 1 sepphire gem and hope to get a good looking mix too.
Thanks! Your flock sounds so lovely. The Legbars lay such beautiful turquoises blue eggs. These are definitely my favorite type of videos to make and I love your encouragement to make more. Lots of luck with your beautiful flock! 🌸
Can you please do a video on the crossbreed between a black Australorp and black Jersey Giant and what they would look like? I would really appreciate it if you would because this is my new flock that I'm planning on getting.
Oh, Katrina Woody, I do so love your request since it is really a 'chicken math' equation. I have an Australorp hen but no Jersey Giant. Obviously I will need to acquire a Jersey Giant to see this request through! Thank you for helping to support my chicken obsession.
This was so perfect!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your hard work.
Out of all those crosses, did you keep track of their weight to see which cross produced the largest or heaviest offspring? Thank you in advance.
Thanks for asking! That's easy to answer since the heaviest birds are always offspring from my Maran /Easter Egger cross rooster and any of the full sized laying hens. The olive egg layers' offspring grow up to be the largest, followed by the Welsummer hen's offspring. The Easter Egger crosses, or blue egg laying hens, have typically the smallest offspring. I have a video showing the weight of a dual purpose breed harvested at 5 months compared to the weight of a Cornish cross harvested at 8 weeks if you're interested at seeing how these crosses measure up for meat th-cam.com/video/HLWasXJKR-Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=C7FibvnJpGhXNp3n
@@SayWhyChickenThigh Thank you, I will check the link later, thank you again.
Do you have a favorite rooster breed? To carry on the blood line and see what chicken breeds they cross by every year and btw your chickens are very lovely and love their color patterns as babies to adult. And I do have some hybrid chickens and one of my most recent and unique looking chicks which is a cross between a golden lace polish and a mixed rooster
(Grandfather:splash laced red wyondotte rooster
Grandmother:either a New Hampshire red chicken or a golden comet
Father:the mix of the parents above ⬆️
Mother:either a jersey giant hen or an australorp but i think it is an australorp
And now the chicks are the third generation of my flock and what’s unique is not the fancy feather top but the comb is a buttercup comb which is a very rare comb variant to get and there’s a 50/50 of either a completely split buttercup comb or almost split comb.
Your chickens sound so beautiful! I'd love to see your hybrids that were parented and grand parented by chickens with the red and white feather pattern combinations. They sound gorgeous! It's a funny coincidence that chicks from your Jersey Giant and Australorp can be mixed up-- because I have that same experience! I thought the size difference in the chicks would give it away like with my Silkie cross chicks, but the all-black feathers of those two breeds makes them look so similar. Our flock changes a lot with newcomers and new hatchlings coming in while others go off to different farms, but this video shows chicks who come two generations after this clutch: th-cam.com/video/XywwCD069hM/w-d-xo.html
I still have a lot of the girls featured in the linked video but the roosters have changed. My goal is to raise friendly and calm chickens, and so I tend to focus more on the chicken's temperaments over their appearance when choosing favorites to parent the next clutch. Their unique colors and patterns come as a delightful surprise. Thanks for checking out this video and I hope you post one of your lovely chickens.
I too am interested in cross breeding, I have white chantecler (two lines), they are a bit high strung, I have secured two Chantecler Partridge cockerels, they are much calmer, I intend to breed the best cockerel to my best white hens. I would like a calmer bird, the Partridge is a bit of a more old fashion bird, with some broody tendencies, which I don't mind. The whites are said to be of production strains. Should be interesting
I'd love to see how your Chantecler crosses look if you go that route. I admire how that breed is so cold tolerant and such a great "all purpose" type of chicken. Crossing a white with a Partridge sounds like a beautiful combination. Lots of luck, and thanks for leaving a comment 😁
I just bought three barred Rock pullets from a farmer he said that at least one or possibly all of them could be crossed with Americana. One of them at least looks like she could be her neck is thicker than her sisters but what gets me is she starting to grow feathers on her legs. Americana's and barred Rock do not grow feathers on their legs. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Aw, she sounds like a true barnyard mutt and likely very cute! I've had a black copper maran/Cochin rooster and a barred rock hen who have hatchlings that sometimes have feathered feet. Right now I have three roosters from these parents and they all look identical, a grey color with a barred pattern, and 1 of the 2 also has feathered feet. I'll need to make a video showing them! Lots of luck with your new girls. They sound beautiful.
@@SayWhyChickenThigh she is so cute! Thank you I would love to see your babies as well. It really is interesting to see what comes from mixing different chicken breeds also the different colorations that result! I might possibly get green eggs with at least one of these gals. We will see.
I love how all the barnyard mutts are so unique! Here's a video of those three Barred Rock /Maran/Cochin crosses: th-cam.com/video/JoJ75CNjl3s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=i3FIb2aJZnJzKEvI
Did you get any silkies
I did have just ONE Silkie X from this hatch. You can't see him in this video (the final update) since he'd been purchased and rehomed before I created this final update, but you can see that adorable Silkie X Partridge Cochin in this previous video: th-cam.com/video/SK9X_5Hl2Lw/w-d-xo.html. He's number 18, seen at timestamp 5:40.
Which breeds are kosher?
Hi, thanks for watching the video. Your question is great, and the answer is more complicated than I feel qualified to answer. However, I can give you more information about the chickens seen in this video. The chickens in this video are mixed breeds, commonly called barnyard mix here in the US. These chickens are crosses of popular egg layer breeds and include Barred Rock, Isa Brown, Cochin, Amerauca, Arucana, Silkie Bantam, Maran, and some Easter Egger and Olive Egger mixes. I wish you lots of luck finding an answer to your question and also the right breed of chicken for your family 🙂
Fine and good Gheh'
Thanks
Can u tell me if I breed a rose comb country rooster(normal height) with a hybrid single comb female (tall height) what will be the comb type and height in their offsprings kindly reply ❤️
I wish I could answer your question better than giving you my best educated guess. A great punnet square depicting the chicks from a rose comb x single comb cross on the curbstonevalley site shows that 3/4 chicks will express the rose comb trait, with 2/4 being heterozygous. 1/4 of the chicks would express the recessive trait of the single comb. As far as height, I've seen that a tiny silkie bantam rooster crossed with a large light brahma hen has chicks that are average in size. They are larger than a silkie bantam, though. Lots of luck! I'm your newest subscriber. I can't wait to see how your chicks turn out.
@@SayWhyChickenThigh thanks for your kind words dear sir/mam.
I didnt notice any dino chickens like the rock cross
Nobody has googled Dino Chicken more than me after reading this comment. Hen #2 (barred rock x barred rock) does have Dino features!
Nice, but maybe do more commentary for those of us trying to learn while doing chores like a podcast.
Noted!