Ancona Chicken Thread

[SanderB]

My Ancona bantam hen from this year.

 

[Alaskan]

She is so cute! How well does she lay?

 

[SanderB]

She is so cute! How well does she lay?

She is less then 4 months old so she doesn´t lay.

 

[Alaskan]

Adorable though

 

[fiddlebanshee]

let's talk floppy combs for a moment. I have an ancona who developed quite a comb at abt 6 weeks. He/she? is now 10 weeks and the comb is flopping over to one side. Does this mean he is a she or can young roosters also have floppy combs?

I've tried to research this but cannot get any definitive answers. A couple of his brothers have been crowing for a while but I can't remember if I ever saw this one crow. None of the other confirmed roosters has his comb flopped over. Just this one bird. The confirmed hens all have still much smaller combs.

I will take a picture soon and post it. For now opinions and experience on this would be welcome. Thanks.

 

[SanderB]

A photo would be nice, cause without I can´t really tell. But roosters can have a comb that falls to one side.

 

[BGMatt]

Flopped combs in Mediterranean breed cockerels do happen, it is a disqualification and should be a cause for automatic culling if you're single breeding (which with Anconas there's no reason not to, but thought I'd throw that out to be a bit more complete in answer).

 

[fiddlebanshee]

Thanks. I have not had a chance to take a picture. Probably around the weekend.

 

[heronz]

Nava, I don't know how you got that little thing

Are you gonna keep her?

I just posted pics of my 3 Ancona roos. Anybody have a copy of the standard of perfection for them? I am keeping just one, who should it be? I have 3 Ancona hens to go with the lucky winner.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4809451#p4809451

Bachelor #1

Bachelor #2

Bachelor #3

All three, L to R #3, #2, #1.

Beautiful birds.

 

[ChiChiLady]

Oh so much fun. I used to love watching that game show,wht was it called again? The dating game? Looking forward to reading the opinons. I think the one with the most even speckling but i have not read what the standards yet,so this is my compleatly novice opinion