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So what happened? Someone over on Facebook had this happen and everyone is telling the poster that their hens will all die (which I don’t believe).

I’ve gotten pretty far but I think I still have a ways to go. It’s been about 7-8 years and I’ve gone through thousands of birds but I’ve made progress. I’m trying to make a breed that looks like a Black Bekisar except cold hardy, fertile and calm/domeatic. I’m trying to get long tails on them...

This bird is part of a breeding project that I have going right now. I’m not actually trying to make Satsumadori…I just want a small molar body and tail for my project birds.

There are pure Satsumadori in the US now. Not cheap but cheaper than importing them or making them from scratch.

From what I recall importing from countries where it is legal (some European countries and some in Aouth America) will cost at least $1,000 per egg or $10,000 for a few birds (like a trio). When you import eggs the transportation will reduce the percentage of eggs that hatch. You are paying for...

Update on my pullet from last year that I’ll breed this year:

The thing is…disease really comes from agriculture/domestication/humans living in societies. Sure…there are natural wild diseases but generally those are either mild or they burn out quickly. Generally the diseases that we have in humans and livestock comes from people and domestic animals...

A few years back we had a VERY warm winter all the way into December. Then a cold spell hit and it was like throwing a switch from summer to winter and I lost all my pure Grey and Ceylon Jungle Fowl and most of my high percentage crosses. They had all survived much colder temperatures in the...

Do you see the white in the middle here? And her face is mulberry…incomplete fibro.

Right. And f he had fibro he’d look like your example…a little spot of blue. Do you have an example of dark blue on red? Not light…like blue/white? Because that’s what I’m saying. Blue is fibro on white. No white it’s just black/red. If it looks blue it’s on white. Can you show me a bird with a...

Like this guy has a little bit of white on his earlobe:

I think when you see they it’s still a white earlobe…just not a good one. You’ll see white earlobes like that without the blue sometimes…just a little white.

White earlobes plus fibromelanism. Either just heterozygous for fibro or just weaker fibro like with silkies.

I like that tail! That’s one of the downsides of the pure Asian Games is even if they have a bit of tail the angle ruins it. Somewhere on-line there’s a picture of a bird with just the most spectacular tail I’ve ever seen on a chicken. Matter-of-fact…it’s on my library somewhere stolen off of...

Not likely pure Red Jungle Fowl. Most of the birds sold as pure Reds are crosses. The only pure strain are the Richardson Strain and only the lines that were very meticulously maintained. A lot of people have “San Diego Zoo Strain” and they were abandoned by the zoo because too many people kept...

I missed the details of the Marek’s outbreak but I was wondering if certain breeds were more susceptible or unaffected? I know some people have reported having multiple breeds and only having one of their breeds affected. They say basically all backyard flocks carry Marek’s.

I never did update this but I had that little pumpkin cockerel in a quarantine cage with a pullet and came out one day to find it dead. Looked as if he just beat himself to death agains the wire and although the cage was elevated way off of the ground his toes had been eaten off where they poked...

There’s some Sumatra way way way back at the very beginning. Probably 9 generations back. For a while there were even multi-spurred birds. At this point there’s more O Shamo and Tomaru in them than Sumatra but there are certainly some genes in there.

This guy’s size and build: And this guy’s tail: Those two are closely related (same father and mothers related). If only I had chanced upon those traits on one bird but the big guy is the only one quite like him and the one with the big tail is the only one Ingot with a tail like that.

I don’t know how much they can improve but I’d be happy if they did. I’ll keep inbreeding them but at this point I’m going to focus more on type and if I get any birds with better color then of course I’ll keep pushing in that direction. These more recent birds are definitely the best for color...