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Hi all, been a bit since I've contributed. I'm only working with the GL orps, but thought I'd share my 'best-of' cockrel that I will be using for the next generation. He's only 10 months old and still filling out. Admittedly, I'm breeding more toward the American standard (I've taken my birds...

New cockbird... he's young, but has unreal and extremely bold lacing. Hoping his chicks follow suit!

This year's breeding cockbird

Wow, been a busy, busy year. I hatched out around 250 chicks, raised them up to subadulthood, and have culled, and culled, and culled. I'm just about down to my final birds to use next spring for breeders... pretty proud of my keepers, tons of labor and feed in this group. This may be the...

Hope the hatching season is going well for all of you.... I'm up to my eyeballs in chicks. This group just hit the grow out pen a couple days ago... Around 50 in this group, they're between 4-7 weeks of age. In another month, they'll be segregated by sex. They are cleaning out 11lbs of chick...

cutipatooti... Let me throw in a disclaimer before my comments... I do NOT have creles, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.... Your birds look like 3 regular cuckoos (2 males, 1 female), and the smaller chick is possibly a crele. But there is such coloration variation with the creles...

STILL looking for a nice, typey lavender cockrel (or even pullet). I have yet to find one on the net that I would be satisfied with. I would need pictures of both mother and father if younger than 20 weeks.

Sure it's possible... but it won't be easy :) Cross Lav roo with choc hen... (since each offspring will only have 1 copy of the lav gene, they will all be black (carrying the lavender gene). Then the choc sex linked gene will modify the black in half the hens that get it from their mother...

@ameraucanacrazy That's a very stately bantam blue, I'd be proud of him as well!

If the roo is chocolate and the hen is jubilee... 50% of the pullets will be chocolate partially spangled (with chocolate replacing the black in the feathers), 50% will be partially spangled jubilees all the males will be partially spangled jubilees (although half of the males will carry one...

Still looking for a nice lavender cockrel.... anyone? anyone? Bueller?

@JustOrpsNC Your Blue is the best of the bunch. He's got a nice full breast and has the appearance of overall size. His comb could be a bit cleaner, but overall, he's a nice bird. The splash is 2nd place... comb is a bit too large and tail angle is a bit too low for my preference. He does...

why does it seem that bantams are easier to find in near perfect type? Love to take that little guy and reverse the shrink ray and make him standard size :) He's going to be a little stud by the end of summer!

@ameraucanacrazy I think that is going to be a great rooster when he gets done growing... He already looks like a very, very nice cockrel. I'm partial to the GLO's... for some reason, they are my favorites hands-down. As an aside, I'm looking for a English lavender cockrel... I'm pretty...

I do this when I want to maximize my hatch.... If I'm comfortable with my incubating process, I'll manually pip (about 1/4-1/3" hole) any unhatched eggs at day #29 at the top of the large end (at the top of the airsac) , then make the tiniest hole in the membrane right next to the beak. The...

Just read this thread, and from years of observing wild turkeys, I was going to say your bird was being submissive wanting to be mounted/ bred. When they want to be bred, they can really squawk if alone until they find a gobbler. Once around the gobbler, they'll usually sit for them. During...

I agree completely... here in America it will be a natural progression to move the English birds just a tad to the APA standards for show puposes, and as more English birds end up in shows, for the APA judges to tend to lean just a tad more toward the English type (not to the extreme English...

As previously said, you want to breed your American LOs to a large, typey English black. All the offspring will be black carrying the lavender gene, but be improved over your current birds in type and size. Then breed those offspring together and keep the 25% lavender offspring and cull the...

wow, you really can see the difference between the two when side by side. Both are very pretty!

Is the second pic an isabel partridge? That should be interesting for those that like lavender ground colored birds. Yesterday was a bad day for the chickens at my house... they all played outside all day in the cold steady rain (38 degrees). When I got home last night, they were all SOAKING...