Tolbunt Polish - Page 61

Awww, such cuteness! 

Yes, I hatched 3 roo Houdans and 2 pullet.  Now I gotta rehome some roos. 

I'd say mottled blue with gold markings but isn't a true blue Tolbunt. I'm sorry I know I've said it before on the blues, but from the feathering out so far, that just looks like a blue with incomplete gold markings and not yet true lacing. Still, quite a cutie!!

 

 

Congrats on the chicks all though! I just got myself this last Easter a handful of Tolbunt splits (gold laced based) as well as a golden sex-linked male split (he carries both gold and silver genes) Got him from my favorite silver laced hen. His comb is terrible because of daddy Tolbunt but I do plan to keep him and breed that out. His parents both have superb lacing, he's got a nice vault and crest and very full beard/muffs so far, and is nice and sizey. (for a chick)

 

Some splits.

 

 

Hopefully will post new pics tonight or tomorrow. The above have feathered out quite a bit and I've got more, plus haven't gotten a shot of the golden boy yet. Oh and as a last note - the one on the left, that is not the crest size I like. At all.

In the 4 years that I have had Tolbunt, this is my first dilute chicks.

Illia, your splits are cute,

Illia- the 15 eggs I got from you I candled last night- 13 forming, 1 infertile, 1 bloodring which I blame on the power outage on Monday- I pitched the 2 eggs. So they are doing good!

My blue saddle chick from last year is buff w/ blue lacing (not all feathers are laced right thought) with scattered white tips- however she has ver few colred patches an is mostly white..... she lives in the mixed color pen now......

Eeyore, that's pretty good for shipped eggs.

 

I might be biased, but I do think that Polish chicks are the cutest chicks!

Pretty good indeed, I'm excited to hear how it turns out. I believe the last, or second last person I shipped they had 10/12 fertile and hatched out. Was very happy to hear the news. My Polish always seem to do best of all the eggs I ship and also personally hatch.

2/2 hached and pretty sure they are not splits , but pures Thye JUST hatched out somIll take photos in morning when they are removed from bator and fluffed out!!!

Lol- it's a great rate on shipped eggs! Better than my "tolbunt" hens are doing- I had 7 in the first batch from them and pitched 3 infertile ones. :-( To be fair though- it was their first 7 non pullet eggs- and the roos were just figuring their job out. My split pen was better with 8 of the 10 fertile. They started laying sooner too.

My Tolbunt roo, who is still in semi-quarantine, took his little piece of bread and carried it over to the hen who was outside his pen, and dropped it there.  I think roos are cute. 

Awwww how sweet! Little romeo ....