CSU - Chicken State University- Large Fowl SOP

[fowlman01]

That black color has a super beetle-green sheen. Whose bird is it? (I presume both photos are of the same hen.)

They were mine. Two different birds.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

Walt do you have any pictures of your "white" hamburgs?

No.
Some these females would turn white slowly over a period of 6-8 years. Much like Cayuga or East Indie ducks. It would start out with random white feathers and more each year until they were totally white. I have never had a chicken do that.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

In memory of Don Khrae

Don did a wonderful job putting these together. I should have never got rid of them. I won a ton of Hamburg Club belt buckles with these over the years and really annoyed Forrest Beauford in the process.......lol

Walt

 

[thedragonlady]

No.
Some these females would turn white slowly over a period of 6-8 years. Much like Cayuga or East Indie ducks. It would start out with random white feathers and more each year until they were totally white. I have never had a chicken do that.

Walt

A lady sent me photos of a black Orp. that did just that. Black with one white feather at one year, then mottled, and snow white at 3.The bird came from supposedly black breeding.Grecian Formula for chickens ?

 

[fowlman01]

A lady sent me photos of a black Orp. that did just that. Black with one white feather at one year, then mottled, and snow white at 3.The bird came from supposedly black breeding.Grecian Formula for chickens ?

Female black ducks do this, but until the Hamburgs I had never seen it in chickens. Only some the females did this.

w.

 

[NeilsHamburgs]

I will try to have some pictures posted later in the week.

 

[Robert Blosl]

I will try to have some pictures posted later in the week.

look forward to them.

 

[3riverschick]

Quote: Judge Card talks about this in his "Breeding Laws" book. How this shows an outgoing of color strength and how to fix it.
Just a thought,
Karen

 

[NYREDS]

Female black ducks do this, but until the Hamburgs I had never seen it in chickens. Only some the females did this.

w.

In ducks it's generally the ones with the best color that develop the white feathers. I came across a nearly all white "Black" East Indie Duck in a sale pen one time. She had excellent type, bill & leg color. All the others had been sold & were waiting to be picked up. The seller said she was 3 years old. I bought her & she produced some great ducklings with tremendous color. Interestingly it's only the ducks that turn white, not the drakes.

 

[fowlman01]

Drake Indies will get white around the eyes. I have lots of those white ducks. By 5 they are almost all white. Good find!

w