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They are fibro, though this one is only single gene fibro. Some have really black skin like a silkie. Thanks! Does wheaten cause the salmon colored breast feathers or is that from it being modified by other genes?

The hen is doing very well. Surprisingly, she's been outproducing my golden comet and leghorn hens. They went on strike while molting and I presume that turned into a winter strike. The australorp x cemani however, has been giving me a nice big brown egg every other day all through her molt and...

This chick's color is throwing me for a loop. I'd appreciate any insights into what the color would be called or the genetics behind producing it. The breed is qaib hmoob hmong. Here it is as a baby. It's the white with the faint black striping. The wings came in surprisingly colorful...

The intended sire is a blend of green junglefowl, grey junglefowl, and Hainan game. The very very long term goal is to create silver and gold laced longtail fowls. I'm trying to build the lacing on a birchen base, because that will give me laced sickle feathers (like polish and the few cock...

So I'm working on a laced project, and hatched out a bunch of eggs from my gold sebright hen. I was hoping to keep all the birchen chicks for my project. Anyway, they are not what I was expecting. Hahaha. It looks like my dom fly tie rooster managed to get in with her, because all the chicks...

I'll keep you updated on the project! The first generation crosses are really fragile. Only 2 have survived hatching and the first couple of weeks. The two survivors are *really* tough though, and very substantial. It will be a few more years of work but I am hoping these two will be a solid...

Okay, was bored and the two youngest are in the house so snapped some photos. Their toes are way better than I thought! I hadn't looked super closely at them I guess. Anyway, a week and a half old. Chick 1: Chick 1 has one clear toenail. Chick 2: ALL BLACK NAILS. WOOHOO. Just need to...

Who all here is working on fibro projects? I am working on one, and am curious about the first generation results I've gotten so far. Anyway, I wasn't expecting the F1 crosses to be so fibro. More, mulberry faces and not so black, like an F1 silkie cross. Here is a picture of one. I will try...

I have a pair of sumatra/yokohama/fly tie blend birds that next spring will be blended with my thai games. Really excited to see where this project goes.

I have some young birds and lots of questions about how to evaluate them. I bought a batch of sebrights and a batch of silver laced polish at the same time, they're all 2 months old now. The polish's markings don't look much like the sebrights. Is this a difference in maturation between the...

The one on the left is definitely a cockerel. Look at his saddles and hackles. Roosters in most breeds have pointed saddle and hackle feathers. The one on the right could be either one. Look through its neck feathers and saddle carefully, and examine the feathers coming in. Are they pointed or...

Yay another Washington person! I've had a lot of chickens around western WA. The most important things to keep in mind when selecting breeds is clean legs and normal feathering (not silkie or frizzle) are the best unless you have a covered chicken run that is well drained (on sand or gravel)...

Thanks everybody! I've lurked around the forums for years and learned a lot from people, but am looking forward to coming out of the woodwork. :)

Thank you so much!

This is something I've scoured the internet for and not had much success sorting out. What causes the pattern on silver laced wyandotte roosters to look so different from silver laced polish rooster? Some of the big differences I notice are the wyandottes have black tails, whereas the...