Opals are soon to be dropped from the Unrecognized variety class and elevated into a Recognized VARIETY, The fees and paper work has been sent to the American Bantam Association, The date has been set for Dec 2013 at Knoxville, Tenn. at the ABA National. It has taken about 10 years with...
The OEGBCA 2012 National show in Dalton, GA. 80 Opals shown, Best variety was a cockerel bred and shown by Ron Smith, This cockerel went on to win the best non recognized variety champion with over 200 non recognized birds competing at the National.
Carl You did not get any of the first offspring from the initial mating as I did not let any of them go. I did not sell any Opals until three or four years after I produced the first two, and I had already been crossing other colors to them to see how they bred. You never bought any Opals from...
I don't know who owned the bird, I just liked this bird so I snaped a pic of it. I was there showing Old English Game Bantams as that is the only breed I have.
I have found that the white chicks with blue slate legs are not opal but caring opal, The correct color for opal chicks is white with a cap that is the color of coal dust and every chick of this color will be opal and I have found that every chick of this color will have blue slate legs.
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opal X blue -> all blue This is a troubling cross- this cross should have produced the same results as a black X blue cross (50% blue and 50% black). Assuming the opal gene is hypostatic. For all of the offspring to be blue, there must have been a splash parent in the cross.
If the opal gene...
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gorgeous coloration - I don't know enough about the genetics of colors to totally understand - but I think you are saying that if you breed two of this color together, you will always get the opal color since it is recessive and won't be visible unless there are two of the recessive...
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So are these brooders, coops. What are they designed for.
They are super nice whatever they are!
I concur - very professionally made and quite attractive.
What do the circles on the feeder do?
That is plexglass the holes are for the bird to stick their head through to eat