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    Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

    Hello there, in bits and pieces yeah
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    Review by 'AndyCap' in article 'Top 10 Best Egg Producing Chicken Breeds'

    Nice list and good information. Regarding Easter Eggers, in my experience they go broody very frequently though.
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    Pekin Bantam breeding advice

    In my humble opinion :D She wont lay until her broodiness breaks. She wont start laying until she is fully done being broody. No, easiest way to get her over it is to either give her eggs or day olds to raise, or to separate her completely with food and water and "break" her. kind of like a...
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    Hey, you still around?

    Hey, you still around?
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    Partridge and Black Breasted Chickens

    Sorry i should have said it more clearly, Dominant white "Can be bred into many varieties" Also worth noting dominant white is a more interesting gene if you are interested in getting a lot of variety in colour. Dominant white will hide black, but not red(unless it is pure), making it less...
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    Rooster breed

    Could be a Hyline although the legs dont look that yellow?
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    Partridge and Black Breasted Chickens

    Okay well here a few to get you going. --- Partridge --- Silkies Wyandottes Plymouth Rocks Cochins Chantecler Brahma Welsummer Easter Egger --- Dominant white --- This gene can be bred onto many birds. Plymouth Rock Orpington Rhode island red Cochin Australorp Araucana Easter Egger The black...
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    Pekin bantam colours

    The black chickens look to be split on an E/e^b split base, that would explain the red leakage in the feathers as well as the feet not being as bright a yellow as others, as for the "white leakage" is probably due to mottling, pretty easy to spot early on and as they develop, see here for...
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    Partridge and Black Breasted Chickens

    Hi, there are so many that fit those description. We would need a bit more info to go on. Why those colours? Are you looking for layers, showers, meat birds or just pretty chickens?
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    Mille Cochin Info

    Nice start, i was pretty close to getting the standard when i had to move and sell all of mine.
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    Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

    Try living seeds hatchery, they have a facebook page and contact info, they do have some currently if i recall correctly.
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    South African Koekoek

    Sure whats up?
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Partridge is a base colour so isnt really created. The patterning comes from a gene and not a combination of other colours. Partridge is a bird on an eb background, carrying two copies of the patterning gene. For it to be "correct" the bird needs to have two copies of a gene responsible for the...
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    How to breed for Mille Fleur Cochin Bantams

    Sorry i forgot to answer the last question. The Buff Colombian traits will breed true(assuming your Buff Colombians are pure For Pg and Co), but the mottling may not. Mottling is recessive and so will only display if the offspring are pure for it. You will be able to tell within two weeks of the...
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    How to breed for Mille Fleur Cochin Bantams

    Those are the base genes. I have seen better patterned birds with the Melanotic and mahogany genes added in too. The mottling gene pushes out the colour patterns very nicely in partridge birds and gives you a solid base for millie fluer, the columbian gene is there to arrange the patterning into...
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    How to breed for Mille Fleur Cochin Bantams

    Hello, sorry this response is so late but the colours/patterns needed would be mottled, columbian, also some patterning is necessary. To start i would find the best typed buff columbians you can get your hands on and then breed in the mottling gene. For that the best pattern would be mottled...
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    How to breed Cochin bantams for Calico and Mille Fleur colors

    Hello, sorry this response is so late but the colours/patterns needed would be mottled, columbian, also some patterning is necessary. To start i would find the best typed buff columbians you can get your hands on and then breed in the mottling gene. For that the best pattern would be mottled...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    This is what a partridge cochin bantam would look like at a similar age. There are plenty of different breeds yours could be, as this is showing the typical wild type base genes that make them look like a chipmunk.
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    Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

    Hello fellow South Africans. Our next show is coming up. Come along and say hey to me and meet the rest of the show poultry club. I will not be showing this year but will be around to have a look
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Hi greyphase, this bird is black with gold leakage, not a recognised colour. i have a few birds that are similar, based off breeding a partidge rooster to a black hen. This happens quite often and can lead to some very nice collared birds.
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