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So buff can be used to achieve the dun coloration. From the kippenjungle. They used silver duckwing rosecomb and buff rosecomb to achieve dun patterned silver and then back crossed to goldens to get dun patterned goldens.

Has something to do with eb the brown mutation and the charcoal gene I think. The charcoal gene causes the dark head. Not exactly sure how its interaction with eb causes it but apparently they can both be found in the buff coloring. P.S. I have something from dutch bantams I need to look for...

Something I've found out is its good to use to work on getting the dark heads on the black crested white polish.

I'm doing the cross to Ameraucana. I believe I have all my stock now and just need to get the rest of the pens set up so I can separate the flock. Should have all my pens up by the end of summer. Its taking awhile longer because of the rains we have been having. Can't get dump trucks in the back...

There are some interesting videos on this.

Found some better pictures of Dean. His hackles and saddles where very long, I think his tail would have eventually caught up but I ended up selling him due to still too many roosters to hens. He was also getting an attitude where King was not. Still he was the better bird expression wise of the...

Spitzhauben requires a wide spread in the tail.🥰 Ignore the face at the bottom I can't seam to delete it. Sigh. Emoji typo. 🥲

Yes, both play a part. The more feathers in the tail the more downward it will be. The feathers do weigh the tail down. The body is going to play a part as well. Sumatra and cubalaya have a stance and body angle/carriage that makes the tail carriage lower.

Kings the first picture. He will be 3 in August. His tail could be longer if I hadn't had all the boys free ranging together. They like to pull tails when they where bottom of the rung. Also he likes to be under foot. I have stepped on his Sickles before and he's pulled away hard enough to pull...

I had a golden from Cackle who's saddle feathers drug the ground. Wish I had kept him over King but Kings temperament was better. King Dean, who is behind Blues man in this photo.

Link to a paper on the Longtail genetics. https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Longtail/ReederLongtailGenetics.html

Yes.

There are more genes involved that make the tail fuller as well.

I've been told on another forum that the long tails of Phoenixs are recessive. I need to test my mixes to be sure on this. I'm not far into my project due to housing issues for the birds. We've had some bad weather that's caused flooding of the pens so everyone is pretty much free ranging...