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  1. gojira

    Show Prep,, Bathing, Feeding, etc (TIPS NEEDED)

    Most of the top exhibitors must be doing things wrong. Some use Vaseline, many use baby oil or VetRX on the comb, face, wattles, and shanks and toes. If a bird has loose droppings, that should be addressed before a show. If a bird is fat, that should be addressed by diet. Birds should be...
  2. gojira

    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    Birchen is NOT a down pattern. It is a description of the adult plumage color/pattern. Down color is NOT what colors/patterns are built on. It sounds like you had cochins with leakage, not the birchen allele. Ask questions, don't make statements.
  3. gojira

    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    Birchen should not be in a blue/black/splash breeding program unless you mean silver blue and sports of that. Birchen in a solid blue bird would be a mess. Hatcheries seem to care more than many breeders. The color is easy to maintain once fixed, but so would any recessive color. It has...
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    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    So, when recessive white is expressed, the alleles on the E locus are absent? Each individual has many dominant genes, and many recessive genes at the same time. In your scenario, yhere would be no White Plymouth Rocks. Color is very simple, especially on birds. Even a 2 year old can figure...
  5. gojira

    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    You are still confused. If a recessive trait is being expressed, it is repressing a dominant trait. Dominant mutations turn up unexpectedly also. Recessive traits do not show up unexpectedly unless one does not know their birds. Even when i do a cross, i know what will happen. I am not sure...
  6. gojira

    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    By turned around, you were making statements that suggested you did not understand genetics and breeding. Not all mutations are recessive. Not all recessive traits are bad. Not all dominant traits are positive. Birchen is a dominant trait, but you seemed to lump it in as recessive. Maybe...
  7. gojira

    So how do you get a Birchen? Do they crop up in blue/black/splash breeding programs?

    The best book on poultry color genetics of Genetics of the Fowl by F.B. Hutt. Some things have changed, but it gets you in the ballpark. The chicken calculator is not that great unless you put in the values, and even then it is not very accurate. The color varieties started from mutations, but...
  8. gojira

    Where to show chickens near Raleigh, NC?

    There are listings on Poultry Show Central: https://www.poultryshowcentral.com. I am in Northeast Georgia, so if we attend any of the same shows, my son would be glad to help.
  9. gojira

    Cackling Ranch show string

    The one you are calling Brown Red does not look exactly like a brown red (red leakage on the breast). Could she be a cross between Mottled and Mille Fleur?
  10. gojira

    Duckfoot?

  11. gojira

    Cackling Ranch show string

    As far as winning, you never know. How old are your boys? My son shows, and he is 13 now. As far as showmanship (the event), there is not a lot to it. My son did it once a few years ago on the spur of the moment, and only missed one question, which others missed, and I think he was bored...
  12. gojira

    What color would they produce?

    Is Lavender a recognized variety of Ameraucana? If not, one is an Easter Egger. In another thread, you said you knew quite a bit about poultry genetics. I am not seeing that. I am not discouraging you from asking questions.
  13. gojira

    Cackling Ranch show string

    What do you mean they are not set up right? I would say hatch as many as possible, and wait as long as possible to make selections. It looks like the tails may be too high (Polish and d'Uccle), and there may be too much black in the crests of the Polish, and too much white in the d'Uccles. As...
  14. gojira

    Cackling Ranch show string

    Are you wanting critiques?
  15. gojira

    Brown Sussex genetics

    What picture does The Livestock Conservancy use for Brussbars? I don't put a lot of stock into The Livestock Conservancy anyway. The picture you posted is the color and pattern @niclandia mentioned, so how would they be posting the wrong picture? The only ways to save the breed are to move...
  16. gojira

    What color is this?

    White Silkies tend to be recessive white. One parent could be a paint silkie, which is heterozygous dominant white. The serama could be buff. It could be heterozygous dominant white with buff/gold leakage.
  17. gojira

    Where do you keep your show Roosters?

    If your birds easily get fat, that is a dietary issue. You may want to change what you feed. How much fat do you pinch between your fingers?
  18. gojira

    What color is this?

    What colors were the parents? It looks white with soiled feathers.
  19. gojira

    what color is this multicolored silkie?

    Partridge is a specific combination of genes, not just a color/pattern. *Edited by Staff
  20. gojira

    what color is this multicolored silkie?

    A buff to black/blue cross starts out black or dark, and turns mostly buff with some black/blue. Partridge starts lighter (yellow or red/brown base with stripes), and turns darker. **Edited by Staff
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