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They are not a recognised breed. They are suppose to be birchen pattern base. I found two kinds of birchen in the group I ordered. The Extended black birchen is used often and as much as regular birchen for a birchen line. Differant recognized breeds have a differant standards for thier...

Nice chicks. Looks like you may have 3-4 males in there. The less defined heads with the lighter color should be males. They dont show any or hardly any black pigement lines on the head. None appear to be wheaten that carry partridge. The rear of all of them seem to be well marked and...

Some of those could still be wheaten. Since you have a number of them. The wheatens that carry eb will have the stripes slightly blurred to various degrees. If you dont know about it you may not notice it. If they have a zig zag type marking they also have the columbian gene. This is also...

There are a few genes that are used to breed or turn E (extended black birchen pattern ) dominant to ER (birchen) . They dont have them all studied and documented. The one most common is called Melinizer gene and it darkens black and fills in black in certain area's trying to cover up the...

The cold will dub them for you if frost bite happens. I supplemented their food with a regular dose of Flax oil to help them carry extra wheight into the winter. Seems to maybe have helped. I had less frost bite this yr. I also try to select for the shorter combs if they pop up. Dubbing...

Black red s or brown reds and black copper marans are the same thing. They are just the red gene on the birchen pattern. Birchen is reserved for when the silver gene is with the birchen pattern. The melinising gene covers up what ever color is there and can create a black chicken...

Oh, ok thanks for clarifying that I didnt pay attention on the book. I thought you and David were co authors. I didnt pay attention that he is the editor for the english version and the author is Sigrid. I have emailed him to ask him for help sometimes. So the red whites are homozygous...

WOW those are just a work of art Henke69. I have a feeling your the coauthor with David.? If you put those new color combinations together it a nice finished color. The Dun will wipe out on the homozygous wont it.? I am working on getting some if I can. I thought I had read that the...

Hello, I ordered a couple chicks to make fill a minimum 25 chick order. I only order two and they are the fast feathering as they showed tail feathers twice as long as the other black chicks of two other breeds that were in the order. However they are both males. They are about 3months old...

Need a wheatem maran rooster. I have a BCM Davis line that I might consider a trade. But prefer to buy.

want to buy Lakevelder. Prefer pullet but contact me if other to consider.

I have two BCM Bev Davis line roos. I only have 3 total 2 roo and one pullet they are just over 2 months old . I purchase them from Greenfire farms. I had not decided whether to keep 2 roo since I only have the one pullet. I need a wheaten marans roo as I just lost my only one. Had...

I have a black tailess pullet 15 months old. Egg color is good. Have a blue that is her sister also. Also have a blue brassy back split for silver that is from hinkly and has tail. He is unrelated to the pullets. Not black I know but compatible mating and would produce blacks from the...

The Iowa blues I have are birchen pattern on E , so if they get any melinizers mixed into them it will wipe out the birchen pattern in the females and turn them black. E based birchen females dont have markings on the top of the head , only the back of the neck and no laceing on frontal neck...

They are not a sexlinked breed. They can sex them by the wings when they hatch, but they are not a sexlinked breed by the true definition of sexlinked. Sometimes the ones with extra white on the face are males, but it is not a sure thing and those with just a white chin can still be males...

Well the breed is unrecognized by the APA . So in many respects they are open game. The only thing to do is to find some well colored birchens and cross in and retain the best. Or hatch out a large number and cull heavy with the ones you have purchased. Try to find out what the original...

Creole Pene can lay a pretty dark egg, but some dont. They should be a good solid terracotta red brown, but not as dark as some of the blacks. My blacks have a differant brown and it has more depth to the color and is more of a brown towards a chocolate than a red terracotta, and they have...

I purchased some Iowa blues from Brown Egg Layers in Calif. 11pullets and 3 roosters------ 'only one pullet is any good and she still needs some work. One of the 3 roosters was overly marked and green yellow instead of silver. Most of the pullets had poor silver necks, more yellow green...

Well you can use the ones that dont show any pattern as chicks. They should be ok. Of course you can breed them together it will seperate and you will still get some regular wheaten. Since the ones with pattern could be eb or wheaten with other just always try to mark them. I take pictures...

If it or they feather out colored like a wheaten female they are wheaten that carry something else, (usually its the partridge gene) . If they feather out as males , since the impure wheaten male looks similar to the partridge male then its really a toss as both have pencil marks in the neck...