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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    Middle Eastern & North African stocks that may be related to or have fed into Sicilian breeds- focus on buttercup/crown/split comb types, especially in images: 1) North African (Maghrebi) Local Chickens a. Berber (بربري) — historical (likely extinct as a distinct breed) What it is. A...
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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    Adding another one I’ve come across. *Note that information for this one is lacking and is almost completely based on one Italian chicken forum thread- its status as a separate landrace is skeptical.* 6. Siciliana Tupputa (aka “Siciliana con ciuffo”) What it is. A crested (“tufted”) Sicilian...
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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    Do you know what breeds went into your flock?
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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    I can definitely see the similarity- thanks for sharing the photos- beautiful birds!
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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    4) Nostrana delle Madonie (aka “Madonie Nostrana”) What it is. A rustic mountain landrace from the Madonie range- centered on Gangi and Petralia- with deep farm roots in inland Sicily; often discussed as an older “brown” type predating refined crown-comb selections. Where it comes from...
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    Sicilian Chicken Breeds & Landraces

    Sicily is a rich source of ancient Mediterranean poultry genetics. Here’s a tour of the four native Sicilian breeds you’ll run into- Siciliana (Coronata), Cornuta di Caltanissetta, Nostrana delle Madonie, and Valplatani- plus their famous export cousin, the Sicilian Buttercup. ⸻ 1) Siciliana...
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    Sultan Hen x Buff Silkie Roo

    Do you have an adult photo of this one?!
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    Sultan cross

    I know this was more than 10 years ago now but do you have adult photos of any of the sultan crosses? I am interested in crossing sultans with other breeds and am interested to see this cross.
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    Rare South American Breeds including the Colloncas

    Beautiful birds!
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    Post Your Chocolates, Dun ,Khaki , Platinum Bird Pics

    Thanks for your reply! I have been doing a lot of research on this topic and looking back at my post I don't know how I ever thought these were dun or chocolate now.. lol
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    Silkie Cross Thread!! PICS!!

    Do you have adult photos from any of the chicks from this cross?
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    Sultan x d'Uccle chicks...what colors will I get? - UPD w/ chick pix!

    Do you have any adult photos of these chicks?? Most of them seem partridge based.
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    Silkie Cross Breeds

    Here's some pictures I took of them, the first one is the mother and the white silkie is the father, he is super protective of the hens and he even helped in raising the chicks feeding them and taking them back to the hen when they got lost, people say to not to let a rooster with baby chicks...
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    Silkie Cross Breeds

    What are the last two roos mixed with?? They're beautiful!
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    Color genes from Jungle Fowl Species (non-red)

    Red jungle fowl: grey jungle fowl: Ceylon jungle fowl: green jungle fowl:
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    Color genes from Jungle Fowl Species (non-red)

    Wanted to get a discussion started about any color genes in modern chicken breeds which may derive from non-red jungle fowl- namely Grey, Ceylon/Sri Lankan, and Green jungle fowl. Most of the time when we talk about chicken alleles that don’t fit the wild-type red jungle fowl version we label...
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    Sex- linked Information

    yep- that should be a male!
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    Observations on Mottling and its many allelic mutations

    Ok that helps! The white chest/underside is coming from mottling though correct? I don't think Mo+, e+ has that?
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    Observations on Mottling and its many allelic mutations

    They almost look like the D'Uccle allele since mainly only their breasts are white. I noticed in my last batch of Icelandics I hatched that most of the mottled chicks only had white breasts/undersides as well, although there was one that had the standard mo allele mottled chick down pattern...
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    Observations on Mottling and its many allelic mutations

    Question- what type of mottled allele do you think 55 Flowery hens might have? Here are some pics of chicks. And here's a video on facebook so you can see their full body coloration:
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