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  1. nzchicke

    and How do I go about creating silver barnevelder?

    Breed lots. and lots. and cull lots. and maybe win the lotto if need be to feed them all? lol
  2. nzchicke

    and How do I go about creating silver barnevelder?

    One in front is rose combed and looked very single laced as pullet... She's something like 3-4 generation.. Opposed to girls in background the would be another 3 generations or more on that
  3. nzchicke

    and How do I go about creating silver barnevelder?

    Mixture of bantams. I would say the bantam silvers have been much easier to see some results.. Still ages away of course... But using silver pencilled was way easier than silver laced... I started the bantams like 2-3 generations behind the large and now they are both at similar stages..
  4. nzchicke

    and How do I go about creating silver barnevelder?

  5. nzchicke

    and How do I go about creating silver barnevelder?

    Just about 3 years later... and getting a little somewhere :) Thought it would be good to update to keep people inspired with their own breeding projects! The large fowl are hard- with their autosomal red- the girls just leak in more every moult but nothing time, and many incubators wont fix...
  6. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    does the 'silver birchen' have a silver wing triangle or is that from barring?
  7. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    Or I was thinking Splash cuckoo? or it could be splash and silver together? I have put him in his own pen, and wishing I had some plain blacks to mate him too, I only have one black older hen, sister of my founding cuckoo roo, but have sold off all others in favour of keeping more barred silkies!
  8. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    Oh and no-bearded silkies are the norm in NZ, esp is the cuckoos! a lot of people are trying to get the beards in them! lol
  9. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    Yes I am quiet aware he is barred ( Bb or BB I am not sure) will find out I guess with his babies. I have found another pic that is comparable in colour!!! yay. AND I have an idea which hen the colour came from too.. found pic here...
  10. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    I just don't think all he has is barring- eg I think he has some other base colour? as you can see he is so different to all my other cuckoos.
  11. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    These are the 'normal' range of roo colours I get, just for comparison. top homozygous barring, red face. Middle heterozygous barring darker mottled face, bottom creole mix colour light red comb (heterozygous B? has some unbarred feathers)
  12. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

  13. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    ok thanks- I think he could carry lav tho as his comb is so different in colour, and lav inhibits the B gene a bit in skin colour.(lets it be a little darker than it would with out lav) I had a closer look at him last night and found some of his feathers has black-ish, mainly just shoulders and...
  14. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    After browsing many pics on the net the closest thing I can find is lavender? any one think he could be?
  15. nzchicke

    Silkies Of A Different Color

    I have this colour silkie come out of my cuckoo and creole mix pen... I don't know what colour he is? can anyone tell me?? :) he is quite different to all the others(cuckoos and creoles) in his beak / comb / eye colour too
  16. nzchicke

    Pea and Cushion Combs, Genetics Behind Them?

    Yes it will be interesting to see what you get! I first saw these combs on a batch of chicks I brought, never saw parents so don't know if the araucana used had a pea comb or 'cushion' type comb- They were araucana x Orpington, they all matched the perfect cross description, no other features...
  17. nzchicke

    Pea and Cushion Combs, Genetics Behind Them?

    I think the cushion comb (that twistedfeathers mentions) in the araucanas is not linked to the rose comb??I am in New Zealand also. I could be wrong- but I have bred quite a few araucanas with a proper pea comb to single comb bird and had these 'cushion' combs come out (along with some normal...
  18. nzchicke

    Newly hatched with twisted hocks/ upside down legs!

    any one??
  19. nzchicke

    Newly hatched with twisted hocks/ upside down legs!

    Help - has any one had this before? I have had the odd one with one leg bad, the leg is usually 'upside down' at the hock, so the chicks foot bottom is facing upwards when It should be down.. But last two hatched (total 40 chicks all up) I have had 3, this hatch the two affected has both legs...
  20. nzchicke

    I dry incubated duck eggs..

    (all the fertile but not developing ones died before day 7)
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