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Very Nice !!!!! If you read my sig. I do commissioned paintings like that too when I have people wanting them. I have two that I am supposed to be working on now.
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Hahahahahaha Did Aubrey just say focus on 1-3 breeds ???? Haha Thats hilarious coming from you. lol Its really good advice thought but REALLY hard to stick to as we both know. But really I guess we dont really have that many breeds planned, I'm only planning to work with about...
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I have been told that there are three different genes that effect legg feathering so I guess it would depend on which genes get inherited and which ones are hiding. Sussex are a clean leg breed but some of the Austrailian imported ones from Greenfire Farms stock like my roo, still get a...
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How tall the pen is really doesnt matter there, the tails get stepped on a broke when they birds are walking around in the pen.
Right, but dont you want something tall so they roost any ways to help grow longer tails?
Yep, you definitely want them to be able to roost, it would be...
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they *Can* but if it's not tall enough and the tails get stepped on by the other chickens they will be ripped off. Also you will need dry bedding that is changed frequently.
How tall the pen is really doesnt matter there, the tails get stepped on a broke when they birds are walking...
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I do agree with Clint there, they are most likely masking silver duckwing, or birchen, so you will most likely end up with some like the rooster you showed.
What all colors do you have to work with?
If they are the only solid color, It will be your only choice even though they arent a...
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so for now , should i take my black girls and breed them to my white rooster?
It would be most likely that you white would be masking Silver Duckwing and if so, breeding them to the White would be like breeding to a Silver Duckwing in the first cross so I would say breed with which...
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Its hard to say for sure but it kinda looks like Mottleing to me. Do you have a way to contact the lady and ask her if she has any mottled birds? I dont see him as being show quality but a very nice looking color none the less.
I don't know. I know the lady's mom works at one of the...
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Was just thinking the same thing in regards to the mottling, Have to say, it looks awsome on him too.
Really? I just thought he was a poorly colored silver. :XD: Is he still poorly colored? Like if his chest was all black and he had white earlobes could he have been a showbird?
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What are you working on for a project?
Working on getting black phoenix.
I crossed my regular phoenix to a white faced black spanish hen, and so far this is how they are looking,
but i have 3 pullets from them now that are pure black, so i now i am trying to think on how to cross...
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Nice looking roo, he is Golden Duckwing by the way, not Silver, Silvers dont have the Red Shoulder patch. He also has a lot of mottling in the breast? Do where did you get him from and can you get another pic from the front to show his breast feathers, it almost looks like the actual...
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Haha I need to be buildin my own new pens, but santa didnt bring me all those bags of money I asked for, so I dont have any money for them and still havent decided on the designe yet but I'm mainly wanting to move the birds out of the pens I'm using now and plant something in those...
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Hmmmm. So does that mean my boys are Silver? They definitely have black stripping in their neck hackles, from what I remember. At least one of them does anyway.
like I said, the top ones are silver ducking, bottom 3 are silver birchen, the odd ball in question is a mix, looks to have a...
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Toni Marie Astin is a very well known breeder who lives here in Ga. and she is pretty much the Goddess of longtails. She has most any imaginable color of Phoenix and Ohiki with a lot of imported blood in her birds. She has also co written a book along with David Rogers called Long...
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I dont have a picture but BBReds, hens and roosters are pure for gold genes.
Golden Duckwings, is really just a roo color the hens are pure for silver genes and the roos have Autosomal red, and/or split for both Gold and Silver genes. I'm still a little cloudy on weather the gold...
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Toni breeds rec. whites so your white roo could produce birchen if it is in his background. Recessive Whites are not white genetically. They are usually a duckwing, but can be any color masked with white. Recessive whites could be birchen birds, but the recessive white is expressed...
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haha you posted a beautiful pic of Phoenix which I guess is what I asked for in this thread so that works too. lol It is stunning, thanks for sharing.