Spitzhaubens

[MeanCheek]

 

[The-White-Elephant]

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So pretty! Have to ask, is it a mix? That’s an awful lot of Spangling…. but very pretty indeed!

 

[MeanCheek]

So pretty! Have to ask, is it a mix? That’s an awful lot of Spangling…. but very pretty indeed!

No, not a mix. Just to much spangling.

 

[MeanCheek]

Basking in the heat on top of the brooder

 

[The-White-Elephant]

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Aww!

What's the other chick next to her?

 

[MeanCheek]

Aww!

What's the other chick next to her?

Lemon Blue OEGB

 

[Tankueray]

I was thinking, the bantams must have been in America at one time, because they were in the ABAs bantam standard.

I *just* read something about that and I don't remember where! Ah, found it: https://heritagepoultry.org/blog/appenzeller-spitzhauben-chicken
I totally meant to look in my British and bantam standards to see if there was a story in there.

 

[Tankueray]

Would Blue Spangled Red be possible?

No idea. I wonder if you could get blue spangled gold by crossing a blue and a gold spangled? I don't know how the spangled gene works.

Any pattern that can exist in black can also exist in blue. So yes, blue spangles are possible, just like blue laced red or any other blue-something pattern that exist in other breeds.



Spangling is caused by a combination of genes, so it will take multiple generations to get there if you start by crossing a spangled bird with a bird that is blue all over. But yes, it could be done.

To transfer one dominant gene (blue) into another variety (spangled), the basic breeding process is fairly simple: start by crossing blue to spangled. For every generation after that, choose a chick that has the blue gene, and cross back to spangled. Keep repeating until you have birds with have nice blue spangling.

The color of the spangles will follow the usual inheritance charts for black/blue/splash. The usual gold spangled is "black" for this purpose (because the spangles themselves are black), and when two blue spangled birds are crossed there will be some chicks with splash spangling.

I have silver blue spangled and gold blue spangled. Most of my flock was wiped out before Christmas by a bobcat so I'm having to rebuild. I just put some silver blue spangled in the incubator yesterday (the father is untested fertility). (Like normal BBS rules, they'll likely be a mix of blue, black, and splash spangles. Splash looks like a mostly white bird with really poor, faint spangling. The males tend to have all white hackles and saddles.) I think I have one young pullet that's gold/blue, but I wouldn't call her spangled. Gold/blue tends to have black in the crest and neck, which almost looks like Co is at play, but it's obviously not, thankfully. Before the cat, I had a trio of all white and a pair of buff that were supposed to be breeders this year. <sigh> I'll have white again by the end of the year, but my only I/I no leakage Chamois rooster suddenly dropped dead the other day, and I'm not happy with my Silver black spangled cockerel, there are two more in grow out, but they're Ss+ because I had to do a sexlink cross to get some more gold hens. First world problems....

 

[Tankueray]

Here are some of the pics I have on my computer. Unfortunately, all the silver rooters were killed and most of the chicks are gone too. I have pics of the most recent gold female batch in my phone somewhere.

 

[Faraday40]

Here are some of the pics I have on my computer. Unfortunately, all the silver rooters were killed and most of the chicks are gone too. I have pics of the most recent gold female batch in my phone somewhere.

Those roosters looked amazing. Sorry for your loss