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shank thickness/ feet size

Hi, At the moment i just have a few old large buff hens and their nicely buff coloured offspring with a bantamxlarge buff rooster. Only their size is not LF. Now I have one off the young roosters in with the large hens and some of the pullets. I bought some dark all red LF pullets. Would it be a...

This is a pic from buff bantam male x white production leghorn hen. Why is it grey? Her brothers are white leaking buff...

What is the best colour to cross buff to? When breeding to duckwing e+ would it be better to use a red enhanced? What about splash duckwing? I also have a few millefleur/columbian crosses with not a lot of black I assume these will be fine to make the cross to buff? What about silver wheathen...

I woulsd say blue

I use oak tree branches but an experienced breeder told me they where no good. "Especially growing birds need flat (with rounded sides) perches because otherwise their chestbone may grow curved/dented" That is what he told me.

To NYREDS: Enjoy your meal!

Hi Tim, If she is ErEwh CoCo or Coco db+db+ wouldn't that make her black like F1?

In hens normally only 1 (usually left) ovary is active. When this ovary (temporary) looses its function (cyst/tumor/adrenal gland malfunction) (the hen will start to look like a cock but) the other reproductive organ might become active. Normally this right gonad is also an ovary but the...

The exchequer cock looks normal no red leakage. s+s+ The hen is silver columbian (wheaten) S- The F1 hens are black with red throat s+ The F1 males are birchen looking Ss+ So the F2 hens can be S or s+ I thought this one was EwhEwh Coco+ s+- and melanisers but she looks a lot like yours and you...

Hi Tim, What do you think the genetic make up of this bird is? I assume she was wheaten, gold and columbian. She is F2 from what i think is a silver wheaten columbian hen and a (gold based) exchequer cock.