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Having one feather longer than the others won’t hurt him in judging. Type will be the biggest challenge since he appears to have a sloping back angle rather than the horizontal backline required for Phoenix. His saddles look very short for 7 months, but sometimes they can hit a growth spurt in feather growth around 7-8 months old. You can also pull any dry tail feathers that are still his younger growth feathers so he can start regrowing more mature feathers sooner than they would if you let them moult out naturally.
For Phoenix you want to place well in shows, select and breed for long, horizontal backs, thin, sleek bodies, long legs set forward on the body, long, dense feathering in tail and saddles, and firmer feather texture in the tail. Good luck in your efforts.

Thank you for answering my question and raising some concerns; his saddle feathers are just starting to drag on the floor and I’m not so worried about his top line although I am definitely willing to correct any faults in the following generations. He’s not very fond of me so he tends to stand tall as a form of intimidation when I step inside his personal space although he’s already a big boy. My friend purchased him for me as a gift from Toni Rivers and she personally picked him out for me. I was informed that her roosters have a tendency to lean towards the larger side of the standard with most of her cocks looking very thick and broad while her hens are quite the opposite. I’m sure the hen I have from her will help correct any issues that the cockerel may pass on in terms of conformation. I have the SOP for the Phoenix and I know now that I will be referring to it on a regular basis in the coming years.
 
Thank you for answering my question and raising some concerns.... My friend purchased him for me as a gift from Toni Rivers and she personally picked him out for me.

Toni Rivers is one of the better breeders of LF Phoenix in the country, so you are fortunate to be starting with higher quality stock. Do you have hens from Toni also? If not you might consider contacting her and asking about getting a pullet/hen or two with long, horizontal backs to breed with your male. Because you already have a male from her she will probably want to help you get the right female(s) to go with him to produce quality offspring. It’s usually more common for breeders to have adolescent or even mature birds sometimes in the fall when they make their selections for breeders for the following year and make available to others those birds they won’t be using), so Toni may not have anything currently. I recommend William Saunders as another source. Both can be found on Facebook. William also has a separate page for his poultry: Rocky Branch Poultry William Saunders.
 
Toni Rivers is one of the better breeders of LF Phoenix in the country, so you are fortunate to be starting with higher quality stock. Do you have hens from Toni also? If not you might consider contacting her and asking about getting a pullet/hen or two with long, horizontal backs to breed with your male. Because you already have a male from her she will probably want to help you get the right female(s) to go with him to produce quality offspring. It’s usually more common for breeders to have adolescent or even mature birds sometimes in the fall when they make their selections for breeders for the following year and make available to others those birds they won’t be using), so Toni may not have anything currently. I recommend William Saunders as another source. Both can be found on Facebook. William also has a separate page for his poultry: Rocky Branch Poultry William Saunders.

I do have a female that I purchased from her and she matches up to the breed standard a lot better than the cockerel. I’m currently keeping them in a breeding pen and the pullet will hopefully start laying in a couple of weeks. She lives about 4 hours away from me and I’m already planning on heading out with my best friend to acquire a handful of more hens for the two of us before fair season. I might also get an extra cockerel since this rooster is getting white mottling on his main tail. I’m thinking about plucking them out to see if they come in black the second time.
 
I think I had a wheaten phoenix hatch from a DW to DW mating. Can someone confirm or post pics of an adult wheaten phoenix?

I know this was posted a long time ago, but I also had some chicks hatch exactly like this. They are feathering in white. I'm wondering who jumped the fence. What did you figure out with yours?
 
One of my new Phoenix bantam cockerels
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I bought two pair; one pair white and one pair red. Friendly birds as the picture shows.
 

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