Recent content by Bentley

No, the whiting blues ARE the blue feathered blue eggs layers. He is the originator of them. He also has a wild type pattern in the blue egg layers and those are the chipmunk type. He spun off a green egg type as well.

He won't have ANY of his fly lines AT ALL. These commercial lines are an offshoot business that he does mostly local. He doesn't have breeds per se, he has developed and produces several egg type lines and some meat type.

He won't have ANY of his fly lines AT ALL. These commercial lines are an offshoot business that he does mostly local. He doesn't have breeds per se, he has developed and produces several egg type lines and some meat type.

For those still clamoring for these birds, here is where any of you can order birds. This is where the birds were selected and bred. Lines have also been sold to Privett hatchery and Murray McMurray and should be in their catalogs by next season.[/IMG]

The gene for beard and muffs is a simple dominant gene. Easy to eliminate, if the bird is clean faced it is not 'hiding' anything and bred to another clean faced will breed true. The tuft gene, like in the Araucana, is incomplete in its expression.

Haha, ok, back to my cave with my sticks and rocks .......

Ok, I am going to reveal some information here in hopes to end some of this discussion about 'secret birds' and 'top line genetics' that Universities have access to that no one else does. This is simply not true. First of all, if you pick up your phone and order 'white egg laying birds' which...

I have used many types of scales in the past. However I recently needed a portably battery operated scale to take on the road with me for weighing birds. Picked up a hanging scale from Cabelas for weighing fish. Tie a string/rope to the bottom weigh hook, tie a nut to the end of the string and...

Not much to it. Genetically there is only three colors of eggs. White, brown or blue. Selection can enhance the expression of the traits like the darker brown eggs in Marans. Still just a brown egg gene but those birds deposit more brown pigment than others. The blue is dominant over the white...

You could be right. I raise light Sussex as well and was also using some classical references for this breed. "Registry of Poultry and Genetic Stocks" Ralph Somes, Poultry Genetics, Univ. if Connecticut, published 1978. Describes this breed and designates the genetic make up of the breed and...

I don't have any personal experience with this topic of a yellow corn based diet effecting the 'yellowing' in white feathered birds. I asked a leading poultry nutritionist this question this morning and he says he sees no way that the xanthophyl from the corn based diet could possibly have any...