The "cut off" or "hatchet chest" etc is when the lower chest is deficient. Most of the time if you see a straight line instead of a curved line on the underline of a bird it is because it is lacking in the lower chest.
Walt
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Definitely keep your eyes on the shafting...there are coloring issues that are more or less straightforward to sort out later on. However, others can be a bear to fix...
Hi, I know removing the shafting has to do with color balancing. I ca't remember this exact references. Hope these help. 1. getting the right shade of undercolor. 2. Getting the right shade of shaft-free color in the male breast because that part of his color in that place most closely resembles the female bodycoloring. What else?I
Other than selecting for the least-shafted females, how does one eliminate it from the flock?
Thank you for your assistance,
Angela
Hi, I know removing the shafting has to do with color balancing. I ca't remember this exact references. Hope these help. 1. getting the right shade of undercolor. 2. Getting the right shade of shaft-free color in the male breast because that part of his color in that place most closely resembles the female bodycoloring. What else?
Best,
Karen
What do you mean? You cannot learn to breed poultry by the chicken calculator?Two old-school Light Brown Leghorn breeders told me that if you can see shafting on the underside of a male's hackle that that male would throw shafting in females. I've never tested this, though.
What do you mean? You cannot learn to breed poultry by the chicken calculator?
What do you mean? You cannot learn to breed poultry by the chicken calculator?
Hi, I know removing the shafting has to do with color balancing. I ca't remember this exact references. Hope these help. 1. getting the right shade of undercolor. 2. Getting the right shade of shaft-free color in the male breast because that part of his color in that place most closely resembles the female bodycoloring. What else?
Best,
Karen
Poultry Tribune: Midwest Edition - Volume 49 - Page 79
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1943 - Snippet view - More editions
Both males and females Iiave similar marked primary wing and secondary feathers. ... While we do not advocate the use of excessively reddish undercolor birds as breeders, to eliminate shafting in surface; yet we do advise the elimination of ...
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The American Breeds of Poultry: Their Origin, History of ... - Page 203
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Frank L. Platt - 1921 - Read - More editions
If they are of a lighter shade than the web of the feather it is called "shafting" where it shows on the surface. We will never entirely eliminate shafting in our females until we produce males without it, especially in breast and body, for it is this part ...
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