Posts by paris_r

so what D'uccle do I have here-is he a golden necked or a buff mottled? also -does the black in the tail make him a DQ for the colour? He is about 5 months old, btw.

I didnt find a listing for these-so forgive me if I start a tangent thread. I am posting some photos of my 4, 2 red shouldered roos and a pair of white ones. I am wanting toknow if they are show worthy. of the white ones the female...

We would love to see pictures of your mille hen & know which hatchery she came from too.  It seems there's a few mottleds showing up in orders from at least one hatchery- there was a separate thread with pictures of a buff hen...

she looks alot like our full size pheonixes-could she be a bantam one?..they just dont have blue ears

my little Austin was adopted from some college students that got her from a bantam assortment at Atwoods in Stillwater OK. I am not sure what she is the photos don't show off her blue tinted ears. she is very small-pigeon size. she is...

so are these both pullets like the calculator projects? it wasn't intentional breeding, but we finally decided to let one broody be the mother she had always wanted to be. the odd thing is each has a different comb, one has a rose and...

hi, I have 2 4 month old chicks from a silver laced wyandott roo and a partridge cochin. both look mostly like SLW chicks. I tried using the simple chicken colour calculator and it give me a sex linked colour split, problem is the...

ahh, the kids aren't mine, I have no say on that front. Their mother and I are both biologists and our mom and stepfather are former microbiologists-so I know she would opt for treatment of the whole flock and perm. isolation rather than...

yes, i realize that if it turns out to be IC then we can no longer have dreams of breeding show chickens, will have to stop 4H and do no breeding for the next 10 years. We will have to let all of them die of old age before we can start...

I have a Mille Fleur Turken I got from a hatchery, I am guessing from someones project. She has a big feathery bow tie (unlike my other turken hens who just seem to have a few stubbles). She also doesn't have the red head the others do....