Posts by Svarthona

They would look black, but would carry recessive white. It's not a sex linked gene so that would work for both possibilities of pairing recessive white male x black female or vice versa.But, if the black hen or rooster are carrying...

You're welcome it's great to see that the Flower hens got a new home on another continent and more people trying to preserve them.Unfortunately there's not too much available about any Swedish landrace fowl in English and the google...

The Swedish Flower hens have been inbred since many many generations already, long before Greenfire imported them. Todays Flowers have their origin in just three lines, of which two could be tracked back to the same village in about...

There's also the Fiftyfive Flowery from Sweden, which are an auto-sexing breed. (Not sure if they exist in the US) They carry barring and mottling which makes the roosters almost white while the hens are dark. Here's a thread about them....

That's fascinating! Thank you so much for going through the troubles of taking a non blurry head/comb picture, I really appreciate it .Now I have an idea of what to look for when going through old books and photo albums at the local...

Those side springs are definitely not from Marans. Marans are relatively new here and the flocks showing the odd side spikes in the back of the comb are small barnyard chickens with tiny combs and wattles, laying off-white eggs. No...

Nice! Thank you Illia! guess I'll have to read up on butterfly/leaf combs now, it's intriguing I can totally see this one being referred to as a "double comb". especially if there's variation in how the sides angle towards each...

I am reading a Swedish poultry book which is citing older texts about the appearance of the native farm chickens from the time before "modern" hatchery breeds were imported to Sweden around 1900... very briefly it's stating...

Now the question arises how to cross an emu with a chicken Seriously though, I wonder how much the blue depends on if it's a single or double dose of the blue egg laying gene...Are eggs of birds with a double dose of the gene...

So there's no way to just see the difference? Drat.The current flock rooster is giving me lots of unexpected colors and I'm afraid he's not really suitable for test mating regarding brown, since he already throws brown chicks...