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I am hoping Walt will come east for the OH National too.

If Walt offers to come and help you assess your birds, you should jump on it! Just saying...

There were about 250 birds in the Open show, 439 including the Juniors. And about 34 of those were Large Fowl.

Truer words were never said! But oh, there is something just so delicious about a pullet just at the point of lay. The dewiness, the perfect feathers, the spring in her step and the gleam in her eye as she seeks the best place to lay those first eggs. I adore those little girls, I do. I...

Exactly. This was one of the topics that was covered during our training as Livestock Leaders during my 4-H certification. It is more noticeable in production breeds, especially the White Leghorns and production brown egg layer strains, but the concept still applies to all breeds of chickens...

And this is one of my oldest hens, hatched in 2009. I think she's held up very well indeed, the photo was taken in February of this year. Her feathers were blowing in the wind in this photo, but as you can see she's held her color quite well through repeated molts.

See post #631 where I uploaded a photo of a 2010 hen. Her cushion is not too bad, she has retained relatively good color, and her legs are still somewhat yellow, although of course we realize that the yellowness of a hen's leg is directly proportionate to whether or not she is in lay, and...

Ginny has asked me to comment on this male as he is descended from a hen she hatched from eggs I sold her several years ago, so here I go. (Note, this is being done on only one cup of coffee, so if I miss something, don't string me up please.) Visually I like this cock bird a good deal. His...

I think there is a big difference between actively choosing to ask for constructive criticism of one's birds, and posting photos of them soliciting same (as we are doing here); and posting a photo somewhere else and having someone offer unsolicited, non-constructive, critical comments out of the...

Good question. I think part of the problem with the "cushion" in particular" is that it may hide the actual lay of a given hens back. So while a hen's back may have that slope as called for by the Standard, and which can be felt during a manual examination of the bird (which is why again, I...

This is part of my emotional attachment to the Buckeye chicken. My grandparents had (it's still there, but they have both passed) a large Buckeye tree in the front yard of their little weekend house on the family farm in southeast OH (I am originally from east of Cleveland.) My grandfather...

They called him Mr. Buckeye. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38425642

Understatement of the year (decade?)

Ok then. If we're doing hypotheticals. Walt, if you had two birds competing against each in a show: one with perfect type and less than perfect color, and one with perfect color and less than perfect type, and all other things being equal, which one would you place higher?

And I agree with Chris. There seems to be a misconception floating around out there that there must be good slate bar in order to have proper body color. This is not correct, in my experience. I have seen very light birds with perfectly acceptably slate bars. I have seen very dark birds with no...

Here are two pics I took yesterday showing slate bar. This is in a cock bird: This is in a hen:

And here's a nice pullet I had back in '09 who did well at Lucasville (when I was showing, before I had kids in college):

This photo shows what a nice pea comb should look like on a male (IMO):

Because the Standard illustrates that the points of the wing feathers should in fact be covered by the saddle feathers, contrary to what was posted by Joe.

I am afraid your statement is incorrect. From the APA Standard of Perfection for Buckeyes: SHAPE - MALE: WINGS: Medium in size; well folded, fronts covered by breast feathers, points by saddle feathers.