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  1. Amer

    Rooster mounting ducks

    Roosters tend to stop breeding what they're not supposed to when they get older. They don't always stop when they mature, but in general, cockerels are more eager to go after birds that aren't worth their time.
  2. Amer

    SOP rose and single comb RIR

    Low protein could be responsible... What is the humidity there? Is it dry? A little more fat in the diet could also help... By adding small amount oil in the feed. Feathers with heavy red pigment like that tend to get drier without adequate nutrition and proper environment, but given the ideal...
  3. Amer

    Welsummer and Marans, seeking insight!

    Welsummer hens do well in both weather extremes but the males can suffer frostbite with their large combs. In my opinion, Welsummer hens are a "chicken's chicken." They are very active foragers. They are calm, unruffled, and never flighty but they are aware of their surroundings and they are not...
  4. Amer

    Are these shredded feathers?

    Those feathers are looking pretty frayed, yeah...
  5. Amer

    Opal legbar x Wheaten Ameraucana?

    You would get single barred crele offspring but they would be heterozygous for wheaten so the hens would have more gold on their body than usual.
  6. Amer

    Genetic questions!

    Behavior and genetics are definitely linked.
  7. Amer

    Chocolate Mottled Satin Silkie Breeding

    Would the chocolate make the red in the cinnamon queens darker? The hen pictured is my lightest Cinnamon Queen I do have one that’s the Rhode Island Red color and I’m wanting it to be that/possibly darker if possible. Chocolate is a dilution but it dilutes black, not red. It would either make...
  8. Amer

    Genetic questions!

    Are you planning on exporting them to the States or moving to the States? I agree, they'd be super popular here and I'm surprised no one has imported them already.
  9. Amer

    Genetic questions!

    I love Thuringians! Spangling is Birchen based if the bird has a patterned tail. Partridge based spangled birds have black tails.
  10. Amer

    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    I'm with you!
  11. Amer

    Any artists out there?

    They look adorable!
  12. Amer

    Any artists out there?

    They're beautiful!
  13. Amer

    Chicken combs. How to breed for different types?

    A silkie comb is often called walnut and I believe it's actually a modified rose comb. But I think some Silkie combs are P/P R/R
  14. Amer

    Chicken combs. How to breed for different types?

    I wonder if strawberry combs have the rough comb gene while cushion has smooth, but that's just a guess, I don't have any facts to back it up.
  15. Amer

    Show off Butchered Heritage Type Chickens.

    Everything is measured with your hands.
  16. Amer

    Ended Artwork Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Oh thank you!!! I really wasn't expecting this!
  17. Amer

    European Fibro Meat Bird Project

    I'm just discovering this thread. (I was absent in June.) It's very interesting! I agree with NatJ I think your blue barred bird is an extended black with barring with only one copy of dominant white. Ghost barring is common in birds with one copy of dominant white. Probably some of its...
  18. Amer

    Show off Butchered Heritage Type Chickens.

    I can give tips! I competed on a market poultry judging team! Also years ago, Christopher McCary showed us what to feel for in a Buckeye. Obviously you want to keep birds that grow the fastest, with no skeletal deformities. The legs should be capable of supporting their weight, that means they...
  19. Amer

    Show off Butchered Heritage Type Chickens.

    Large fowl and bantam Buckeyes (A bit gross) Just the bantams in the crock pot One was super skinny, but I was surprised to see he still had enough meat to make it worthwhile. Next time I will probably skin them since I just ended up taking the meat and discarding the skin anyway, (especially...
  20. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I also feel like I'm cheating if I devote time to any breed but d'Anvers to be honest.
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