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  1. Amer

    How many chickens to start off breeding?

    Chicks can look fine as chicks but growing up they can have defects, there's no such thing as a show quality chick, you won't know the quality until they are grown.
  2. Amer

    How many chickens to start off breeding?

    For Belgian d'Anvers the space recommendations would be more like 1 square foot for bird in the coop and a lot less than 10 or 15 in the run. They don't overbreed like other breeds (partly because they are small and light) so I tend to breed them in trios. And I buy them in quality pairs or...
  3. Amer

    Any artists out there?

    That's so cool! These are just beautiful, you should join the Birdtober art thread!
  4. Amer

    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    Turkeys with the black winged bronze base are just so beautiful! Sweetgrass or black winged bronze, I love the "eye spots" and gloss on their secondaries. Someday I hope to have a flock as beautiful as yours.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I ordered something from an Amazon a couple of weeks ago and they keep pushing it back I can't speak for Leghorns but the Anconas I had were active yet curious and friendly. Not like lap birds but definitely friendly.
  6. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Leghorns are kind of elegant here, you know? The only difference between Anconas and Leghorns is how their backs are described. The Italian ones are more upright and long legged. https://eng.agraria.org/chicken/livorno.htm
  7. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    In Italy they are separate breeds but by most standards they are basically the same XD in Italy Livornos are more rangy.
  8. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Check these out Moony (Anconas are just mottled Leghorns, change my mind)
  9. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Awwww.
  10. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The tails and humongous combs are so cute. It's always weird how they kind of lean down though. I prefer when they lean the other way... Upright like the d'Anvers
  11. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Those are so cute, I don't know why they selected for a lethal gene in that breed. I can get some pretty short d'Anvers without it XD
  12. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Where did you read it is a lethal gene? It affects fertility but I haven't heard of that.
  13. Amer

    Anyone know more of the Genetics behind these Buff Silkie chicks?

    Buff genetics aren't very well understood, it's a lot of pheomelanin enhancers together on a wheaten base. I think the grey backs reminds me of columbian color down so you might get some more color on that too.
  14. Amer

    Anyone know more of the Genetics behind these Buff Silkie chicks?

    It's hard to say, but I imagine their chicks would be darker like them and they would not produce fully buff offspring if bred together (if they are a pair.)
  15. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That's what I would have said also
  16. Amer

    Feather color genetics

    No, ear tufts is lethal, but he doesn't have those so I'm not worried. Sometimes homozygous rumpless birds have lower fertility so there are many heterozygous ones in the Araucana population, that's why I don't know what he has.
  17. Amer

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    They're so cute
  18. Amer

    Feather color genetics

    Rumpless is dominant but he may only have one copy. You will get rumpless (and maybe some tailed) olive eggers with pea combs (more like an intermediate, a pingle comb like the father), single combs, and beards, and the same coloration as their mothers.
  19. Amer

    Is Greenfire farms trustable?

    Trustworthy, yes. But there are far less expensive options to get rare breeds if your not looking for something only they have.
  20. Amer

    Sand Hill and True Heritage Breeds Club

    There is a club for these heritage breeds called the Society for Preservation of Poultry Antiquities https://www.sppaclub.org/
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