Belated dinner birds, to illustrate some of the odd unusual variations :)
Technically some of them were just half a dinner or diet dinners lol I really need to work on their size. Especially the "blue" ones tend to be skinny.
(Disclaimer: this are NOT Swedish black hens, it's just my farm flock...
Beautiful bird!
I've seen in my own project with the Swedish black hen mutts that there's really a lot of variation in the color of the skin, muscles and connective tissue. In my flock there's a wide variety splitting up and all parts of the birds (eyes, wattles/comb, skin, individual muscles...
No hurry, I know that there's a lot of higher priority things to do right now (: but my name changed from Svarthöna to Svarthona.
It may not be a big deal for most people around here, but it makes my Swedish soul cringe a bit. I'd really appreciate it if it could be changed back to what it used...
That's really confusing. I don't know what that could mean. Isbars do not come in color patterns like barring or mottling. They are solid blue/splash/black in silver or gold (rare). The preferred color to breed for is a good blue, that's why they are usually called "blå" isbar (click here for...
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The Isbars are not autosexing... if you mean better sexing qualities than gold/silver is providing?
Chicks just look like an average blue/black/splash birchen, this link has some nice pictures of Isbars of all ages
But there are quite some things which could cause the misunderstanding...