We had quite the interesting color results this spring from our pair. The hen is a standard heritage Bronze bird that has been around for many generations, she might have a shot of E. Wild in her as an accident of wild birds venturing into our yard about 10 years ago. It's a long story, but we got fertile eggs nearly 2 months after our tom was killed.
We couldn't find a new heritage Tom, and wanted something a little bigger and muscular than what we had- so we bought what is prob a mutt-- but looks like a Nagg.
In any result, we had about 1/3 of our poults hatch out this spring solid white- and have since turned in Royal Palm looking young hens. About 1/3 of the poults came out looking Nagg- and all appear to be toms- and the remainder came out looking Bronze.
The whites are the most shocking, as we never expected it.
Any thoughts on this?
I'm considering getting rid of the birds that I have, and restarting with something more muscular. I do have a Bronze tom mated to a BBW hen- young hen that is closer to the muscle I want in a self reproducing bird- just wondering what to mate her to,
Any thoughts?
We couldn't find a new heritage Tom, and wanted something a little bigger and muscular than what we had- so we bought what is prob a mutt-- but looks like a Nagg.
In any result, we had about 1/3 of our poults hatch out this spring solid white- and have since turned in Royal Palm looking young hens. About 1/3 of the poults came out looking Nagg- and all appear to be toms- and the remainder came out looking Bronze.
The whites are the most shocking, as we never expected it.
Any thoughts on this?
I'm considering getting rid of the birds that I have, and restarting with something more muscular. I do have a Bronze tom mated to a BBW hen- young hen that is closer to the muscle I want in a self reproducing bird- just wondering what to mate her to,
Any thoughts?