Recent content by DTchickens

I've never known Ideal's to be crossed, despite what many said years ago and my assumptions at first. Ideal's stock does have quite the little bag of genetic diversity though. I never got single combs but I know of some who did; I never got rosecombs but George McLaughlin mentioned and even...

Where'd you get them? From what I can tell, I'd suspect a feather picking issue or something else that kept the tail from growing well. I can't see very well from this angle, but it doesn't look like evidence of the rumpless gene.

He's welcome to contact me (anyone with KK are.) FB is: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.thornton.18 Email is: [email protected]

The birds I have seen I'm pretty happy with considering the stock I originally began with. I recently moved to Colorado Springs, so currently I'm not around my birds; but I paired them up the way I wanted them bred and my father's currently caring for them until I find a place to put them and...

lilbeast, given this post is 6 years old I had to reference the original post again. I have seen young pullets this age have a pink comb like this. I have seen pullets that came as large, or at times depending on their genetics, even larger than their brothers. I have also seen pullets that are...

They're really not as big as they look sometimes in photos. In the Netherlands the biggest weight they are supposed to be for cocks is 6.6lbs. That's no different than many of the American game we had; we had quite a few hatch greys, McRae X Rubles, etc. Which all came around 6lbs, one came...

The Kraienköppe are exceptional flyers, especially if spooked . They're also very intelligent to boot, if they are flighty they are some of the most difficult birds I've found to catch- they'll squeeze through a whole you may not even see. I've also got feed cups on my pens turned so birds...

Pretty much just like game. I treat them just like I did my games and they do well, except I don't have to be so strict on them in terms of keeping cocks separate.

I keep my KK just like I did my American game. Singles are oftentimes kept in round pens which I believe measure out to being somewhere around 3X3, height is usually 4-5 though we do have some 6 foot pens; I also have some pens which are about 4X5X4/5' that I keep singles or pairs in. These are...

Been a while since I posted, I thought I had subscribed so I'd get email updates but apparently not. You will need a covered pen for the Kraienköppe, I kept some cull hens around once to put in the egg laying flock I had (now I have no need for cull hens or a egg laying flock my young hens I'm...

Looks good to me Nosipho, I like him!

It's possible, but would take a very long time to do so. It would be done the same way as you would make a bantam from a large fowl. You could either acquire a large specimen for the breed and breed largest to largest for numerous generations, or you would outcross to a similar breed and breed...

Anyone on here attending?

I sold my last whitehackles (and really all of my American game) back in November of 2013. I'm out of gamefowl now to focus on the Kraienköppe primarily. God bless, Daniel.

One of this years cockerels. He's still pretty young and growing in so he could change, but so far I kind of like him for the most part.. If all goes well we're having a show here in MS, January 24th. I'm considering taking him and possibly 7-8 pullets, maybe another cockerel, one of my brood...