Calling all Penedesencas Owners/Breeders

[heritagehabitatfarms]

asum.... ya most of the ppl that want to have a breed club are just to busy in the spring and summer lol... im hoping to get back to working on it this winter... ive done some more work on the website lately (updated breeders listing mostly)... do you have a breeders listing up yet??? if not email me threw the website and ill put one up for you... acualy you can PM me the info on here to lol...

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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looks like a great start of a black copper Penedesencas to me

 

[sjcolorwing]

Black red s or brown reds and black copper marans are the same thing. They are just the red gene on the birchen pattern. Birchen is reserved for when the silver gene is with the birchen pattern. The melinising gene covers up what ever color is there and can create a black chicken wheather it its red brown or silver. Its harder to cover nales colors so two genes for it are needed to create the solid black. Its not uncommon for black copper narans to throw black colored chicks, to much melinizers and color is wiped out. Usually in fenales.* Balcks created in Marans from coppers should be culled and not counted as a black as black marans are suppose to be extended blacks not melinzed birchens. The same black out will occure with Penes from black crosses. The black pene is made from melinized birchens so is a differant type of black chicken from black marans, yet is similare genetically to the black copper. Black reds from black pene crosses will continue to revert to black as time goes by as they become pure for the melinizing gene, fewer black reds will hatch out and more and more numbers of solid blacks will dominate in the hatches. Technically if they are black reds they are just darkened brown reds.

Yellow leg color is caused by recessive genes one of which is in white legged birds. Better to have the white legged to correct than the blue. The wrong color just shows they have been out crossed to another breed like the Penedesenca or even Marans which have white shanks. But due to the compexity of shank color genetics the color dose not indicate what breed was out crossed to.

 

[jeremy]

Boy or girl? This chick will be 4 weeks old on the 16th.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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if its a wheaten its a girl...

 

[jeremy]

It sure is a Wheaten! It looks and acts like a little girl to me, too. It has just been so slow to feather out compared to the other pullet it is sharing a brooder with.

The only thing that worries me are some dark feathers coming in along it's back, they just scream boy to me.

How confident are you about your guess?

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

Girl, I'm pretty confident.

 

[jeremy]

If you're right that will be 2 out of 2 chicks being pullets that I received from my friend!

I really, really want her to be a pullet, if so I'm going to put her with my BW Ameraucana boy to make some Olive Eggers!

 

[Mrsfoote]

I have a question I hatched out a Partridge Pene...my broody adopted it because I didn't think it would pull through it did I heard you can somewhat sex them So i was wondering how you did that this is my first PENE

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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males will be black and red... females brown...