CSU - Chicken State University- Large Fowl SOP

[capayvalleychick]

Are you sure this Dorking person is a breeder? The red female should have golden or or bright yellow shafting. Page 97 of the APA Standard. Picture on pg 110 showing the shafting. Shafting is a fault on many breeds, but not this time.

Check the SOP to be sure of the information you receive.....there is a lot of bad info online.

Walt

The breeder that I'm talking about has Silvers. She said that she needs to correct the shafting in her birds. I didn't look at the Red Dorking description, now I see it there.

 

[pysankigirl]

This hen has a lot of shafting in her feathers. Is that correct for Red Dorkings? I read somewhere how to get rid of light shafting in the feathers but can't remember where. Can anyone help with that? Looking at the grey pantaloons, could she be a cross between a Red and another color Dorking? I don't know.
Thanks,
Karen

Ohhh!!! ohhh! that is a question I know the answer to!!! Shafting is a good thing with dorkings!!!!

 

[pysankigirl]

And a red hen while we wait on more pics:

is she red or colored? I am trying to figure out what colored is supposed to look like. My 2 girls are also from Sandhill. (the SG are from Ideal and I won't be posting them here...LOL)

 

[fowlman01]

Ohhh!!! ohhh! that is a question I know the answer to!!! Shafting is a good thing with dorkings!!!!

It is not a good thing with the Silver Greys.

Walt

 

[kimberly35042]

Here are a couple of the SG pullets from McMurray. Sorry for the crummy photos. I took them for "visual", not chicken U.

 

[kimberly35042]

Quote:
You SHOULD post the SG's from Ideal. We're here to learn. Maybe they are better (or worse) than you think!

 

[fowlman01]

Here are a couple of the SG pullets from McMurray. Sorry for the crummy photos. I took them for "visual", not chicken U.

It is hard to tell much about them in these pictures, but what I can see is this: They should not have the lacing on the body feathers, they should not have shafting on the chest and the heads are kind of narrow.

Walt

 

[pysankigirl]

It is hard to tell much about them in these pictures, but what I can see is this: They should not have the lacing on the body feathers, they should not have shafting on the chest and the heads are kind of narrow.

Walt

(now I want to run home and look at my chickens to see if they have lacing on the body
or shafting on the chest)

 

[Prospect Farm]

Not sure I can add a picture but this is also a young, 3/08/13 McMurray pullet. And hoping to find a picture of the cockerel. I now have chicks from Dick Horstman but they hatched May 28th not much to look at yet!!! Nope nothing worth posting of him will try to get some tomorrow. I'm eager to grow out the Horstman birds and compare them to these.

 

[Happy Chooks]

And a red hen while we wait on more pics:

I know nothing about the breed or what the coloring is supposed to be, but I love the coloring on her. So pretty!