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Great idea Bob. Here is a list of probable Heritage Bantam Breeds I could think of. Single Comb Clean Legged Ancona, Andalusian, Australorp, Campine, Catalana, Delaware, Dorking, Dutch, Holland, Java, Jersey Giant, Lakenvelder, Lamona, Leghorn, Naked Neck, New Hampshire, Orpington, Plymouth...

Scott yes you can single mate. However in my opinion I would continue to double mate at least until you get the type you want set in both males and females. I would worry more about the type than the color. Get the tails set in the males etc etc etc first. Jeff is correct in stating that most...

You are correct OSUman . Frank also has Partridge and possibly Silver Penciled. He got his Wyandottes from Duane Urch several years ago per a conversation I had with Frank. He is running several hundred hens of each variety over winter in an effort to help build up these varieties of birds...

If any one is interested in good Wyandottes get a hold of Duane Urch he has Buff Black White Silver Penciled Partridge Columbian Golden Laced He probably has the best Golden Laced In the U.S. most of his strains have been closed for many many years. If you have the room perhaps you could...

Here is a link for columbian wyandottes http://www.standardbreedpoultry.com/for_sale/Wyandotte/Columbian/Large%20Fowl%20Chicken There is a breeder in Oklahoma named Kathryn Wagnon Good Luck with the birds Charlie

I believe a lot of birds have been struggling longer than we might think. The list would be long. I think there are several contributing factors. Many breed varieties have always been preferred in one color or another. Generally the easier colors to breed have excelled more rapidly than the...

I have LF Rosecomb RIR and they have excellent fertility and in 2012 I had about a 80% hatch rate. Charlie

Can you post some pics of your RIW Charlie

That would be what I (key word I) would call pen breeding. This can work quite well. It is probably the easier way of double mating. Depending on the color variety it can and does work. The color defect you are trying to correct is probably the real determining factor though. It would also be...

Double mating is more common than one may think among party colored birds of certain patterns. It is very common for a color trait to be off one way or another which will result in the males or females of single line breeding to have either an excess or shortage of a certain color. This is...

Richard Timm Nicollet MN he has nice ones I think they may be original Tommy Stanley strain. Very nice rosecombs on them too. Charlie

Yes NYREDS someone did insinuate that he no longer had reds. I found that hard to believe. Guess it was not true he showed and sold some in November at the MN State Poultry show in Hutchinson MN. Charlie

I do not really know what my birds genetics are. I think it would probably be real real expensive to know exactly what they are. In fact I am willing to bet that I could buy several flocks of great breeding birds for the money I would have to invest in the testing to find this out if it is...

In my case it may be Du/Du for dummer switch. Charlie I meant dumber switch

Pretty sure I'm more simple minded than you fogelly Charlie