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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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.
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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.
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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.
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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]
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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.
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    Haha, ok, back to my cave with my sticks and rocks .......
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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...
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    Old and Rare Breeds

    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...
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    Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

    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...
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    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...
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    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...
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Light Sussex carries the following genetic makeup for plumage: eb (Brown; autosomal recessive), Co (Columbian Restriction; autosomal dominant), S (Silver, sex-linked dominant). The S gene inhibits the production of brown pigment (from the eb) but has no effect on black.
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    Sumatra Thread!

    Sorry, this is simply not true. There are only two gens for basic skin color, yellow and white. White is dominant to yellow, ALWAYS. You will only get yellow feet/skin if both parents contribute a yellow skin gene to the offspring. Again, White is ALWAYS dominant to Yellow. The colored...
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    Houdans

    The APA SOP calls for a body weight of 8 lbs in cocks, 7 cockerels, 6.5 for hens, and 5.5 lbs in pullets. Most Houdans in the the US are FAR below this. They have been "Polishized"
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Awesome!!!! Let me know when you get back. You might need to come and critique my birds.
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    Old and Rare Breeds

    I know there was some discussion on here recently about LF WF Black Spanish. Anyone have some recommendations on who might have some good birds? We have several breeding projects in conjunction with the Heritage Poultry Conservancy and want to add this breed to what we already work on. Any...
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