Recent content by 123silver

I will try to take some pics, one of the hens I'm talking about was killed by a hawk over the weekend. I also have some chicks I will take pics of.

I was wondering if there are genes that inhibit barring. I have some hens that hatched with the spot on the head but when they are fully grown you can barley tell that they are barred. These hens are brown based not black. So their grand parents were a male partridge rock and female production...

Does anyone know which hatchery sells chicks that are not mostly wheaten(Ewh) or black(E, ER)? I would like to get some that are chipmunk/wild type color(e+) or brown (eb)

Hello, I'm wondering if you still breed a meat strain of naked neck?

Here is something I've been thinking about. Why couldn't you go with an eb based rhodebar instead of e+? Wouldn't Mh darken it enough to tell the difference at hatch? And wouldn't it be a lot cleaner looking and closer to the original rhode island red? Just wondering.

Here is a rooster and hen and some chicks. females are dark,males are light color

Here are two examples, they are part of a necked neck autosexing project. My avatar is barred also.

One of the silkies has to be the father because if the CCL was the father the chicks would carry one barring gene from him. This hen is not barred therefor the legbar is not the father.

I have raised Madagascar games from Ideal Poultry. They were real meaty but a little small kinda more like large fowl Cornish. Meat was tasty! Would be good to cross with like a White Rock or Delaware. Pros- Tasty, good feed to meat ratio, great foragers, less feathers to pluck, all different...

Auto-sexing naked necks!

Got it! Thanks for the info!

Ok so I understand that rhodebars are bred on e+. So if you cross to heritage rir you get Ewh/e+. In future crossings how can you tell if the chicks are carrying wheaten or not.

No silver, barred on e+ or eb or combo of the two.

Part of my auto sexing project.

Here is one of mine!