Posts by brenTx

Bren, are you using "Euro" blacks, or blacks from your regular flock?No, I am using my own blacks. To start with that was all I had and using blacks from the paints might work even better but for now...using unrelated blacks...

I think of them as a loud paint or appaloosa horses. Same way when I started talking splits with the lavenders...that was peafowl talk and seemed to fit. If you have ever owned and dealt with peafowl, they always are "split" to...

Ok now for the pigment holes. Some of mine are just the pads of feet...some are toes but just bottoms and then some are the whole foot. I think they may darken some as they age but then...another thing to be tested and followed. AND some...

Let's see if I can share the black feather structure. Like some have said...it is actual whole feathers that are black. The bigger the better is what I am liking for now. If it is less spots but loud then they don't look as splash. Even...

Yes they are. I hope we can ROUND them up a bit. They are a bit long legged in the cockerel department for now. It could be the lack of good size of crest in the one male that makes him look a bit thinner than my little round balls of...

Ok here are some of the chicks. These are just hatched babies so you can see the color at hatch. Here is a chick I think of as loud. Then here are some day olds that were hatched just before the Shawnee show.

I am getting paints, black and some solid white which may turn out to show black with they feather out. For now I am getting 50% paints.Here is one of the loud chicksHere is a group of day olds I hatched out just before Shawnee show.

Test breeding some of these questions is what we need to work together to get the answers. I have only kept whites and paints and bred back to blacks.

Have you test bred this black to see if it does carry the paint gene? Sigrid let me to believe in the Euros that black is not carrying the gene. If the blacks and blues are carriers I have sure given away a lot of pet birds that would be...

I am going to be showing some of my paints that are hatching out now. None of mine are very old yet so sexing is still pretty much up in the air. I am not breeding with THE AMERICAN PAINTS so I felt maybe I should start another thread? I...