Recent content by Arjun Masthi

Funny how two separate genotypes can come up with the same colour on roosters! Behind is a dark red shouldered Brahma, that I'm now giving away to a cousin. Front is a Salmon Faverolles that I shall use next with a few crosses. The Faverolles will get his own coop now!

Thanks! That's unfortunate! Yes they are! I love their beards and how it makes their combs stick out. They're quite clumsy sometimes too. Their run 😀 I'm using them for a probable beard, unless it makes their vision bad alongside a small hopefully forward pointing crest (unvaulted) from a...

And here's a white faverolles from the same guy I picked my whites from years ago. Great laying strain, small beard and grow both quickly and mature to weights comparable to some mod sized Brahma's. I got him to see if I can fix these genes into my birds and breed out the white colour. Would...

This is a gal that's born to a Brahma× Silkie cross (that's in the beginning of this thread). Note the tiny crest. This was the only one from the batch to have a comb. I'm keeping it as a reserve incase the spitz doesn't work (I hope two genes won't make the crest too big either). She has the...

Hey, all the best for your new breed! I'm commenting here so I can get updates 😊 I'm currently in process of creating a new breed too, albeit for a different reason and slightly different standard. So check it out. Has a bit of genetics involved too...

The Spitz are great foragers! And they've been so alert about predators...

Getting these two. They aren't great standard for Orpingtons, but the mother lays well, and they finish to a good weight.

She's beautiful!!! My faverolles don't have any impediment in vision inspite of those big beards too... Fingers crossed it'll get Carried on in crosses 😁

Genetically bad scaled. I don't have a mite problem currently. He had it from the start, none of his batchmates have/had. The second flock I spoke about us a random group of laying hens, completely free-ranged, no supplimentary diet, and this guy to protect them 😅 I don't use those eggs to...

Not using him to breed. His legs are quite badly scaled- probably why his legs look so thick. (I had one hen with that issue, something I kept for only incubating other eggs- and guessing that's his mom 😅).

Yes! That was the reason for choice of the Spitz over Polish chicken to begin with Because I won't be very sure. Also, I'd rather have a crest of a spitz, or as small as that of a legbar as a defining character, over vision impairment. I have a further cross with a Brahma from my Silkie cross...

This was the question! I mixed in another question about vaulted genes together and made it super confusing 🤦 my bad! Thanks for taking the time to type this down 😊

Understood. I'm definitely considering though. 😊 I had a Polish rooster, a blonde-white guy who was forever noisy too. Would sometimes get up at 1am to crow. 😅

I'm attaching a picture of one of my Silkie hybrid crossed with a landrace× another hybrid of a landrace and Giriraja (read about the breed early on in this thread). He's a sibling that I let roam around with another flock of mine. This picture was a day after he returned fighting some other...

Thank you very much! Yes, so the plan is to see if the beard impedes vision. If they do, that goes out. I do have a doubt. Are the crosses heterozygous or homozygous for crest genes? Heard that only two pairs of the crest gene create a vault in predisposed birds. So even if they carry the...