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  1. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Rob!! I'm afraid you've got yourself a boy there. The combs on both sexes are large, but the boy's combs stand up straight while the hen's combs typically fall over at the back. Also, see his long neck (hackle) feathers on the nape of his neck, long tail feathers, large wattles, and long legs -...
  2. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Hi Apyl!!
  3. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Very nice birds Yellow House!
  4. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Man, I wish you were closer, I have 5 roos from last Aug. Only keeping one. Yellow House, adorable babies! bobbie, nice lookin' gal. Here's hoping the eggs follow shortly.
  5. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: Thanks Yellow House. I will keep that in mind. She kind of looks like a grandma bird now. Is that a serious fault, or more or less overlooked due to that tendency? Nava, look a few posts up...UAC is United Ancona Club.
  6. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Ok, here we go. BEFORE (last fall, about 6 months old) TODAY (1.5 years old, with one of her 'normal' looking sisters in the back) I noticed all 3 girls got more white to some degree, but she takes the cake. Michael Jackson syndrome?
  7. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Wow, that's pretty drastic. Yeah, something like that. I'll try to get a pic today. Maybe it's her 'gray' showing thru?
  8. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Hey folks, Has anyone noticed if their hens get whiter with every molt? I have 3 year-and-a-half old hens who just finished molting and they are all noticeably lighter; one in particular is now so white she looks more like an Ancona/Leghorn cross. She actually has more white than black now. Does...
  9. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: Boy. My 11-wk pullets have almost no comb, while the boys look just like yours. Sorry.
  10. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote:
  11. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Decided to go a different route with these roos. To the freezer with all these guys from an unknown hatchery. Why hold a poor roo over winter? I have 5 young cockerals of Sandhill heritage, whose daddy looked much better than the 3 adults here now. These adult roos are practically wild, I...
  12. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: I looked again and he does have a much whiter face than the others. I will go with the one on the right for now. Thanks for the input.
  13. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: Yellow House, thank you, I see that now. I do have 3 adult hens from Sandhill, and 2 pullet chicks. It can't hurt to play around and learn some things, and see if I love the breed enough to get serious. I agree the roo on the right is better looking than the one on the left, I only...
  14. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: I've seen that definition before but not sure what it refers to. How can you tell? Perhaps I should scrap all roos?
  15. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Yes Nava, I know 1/3 of the feather tips are supposed to be white. But isn't the tail supposed to be all black? The drawings of Anconas in the standard show black tails, with speckled bodies. Out of 6 roos I've had in the last year, only one has an all-black tail. Here is a pic of both roos. I...
  16. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Need some opinions: I got a few adult Ancona roos from a fellow BYCer in August. She got them at a swap and does not know their origination. I would like to keep one to play around with until I can get started with rosecombs. Roo 1 has nice body type and good speckling, but lots of white in his...
  17. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: Yep, for most people, a big comb = roo.
  18. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    babyrnlc, very pretty pic! Your girl doesn't look molty at all. I've been watching those wayward-broody chicks for signs of crossing, and they still all look uniform and true to the breed. I'm guessing they're around 6 weeks. Here some of them are with mom, who is molting and sans tail...
  19. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: I like the look of your roo. Quote: This! WI winter is just too hard on big combs. Now, if I were able to use a rosecomb roo over rosecomb and single comb hens, would one comb type be dominant, or would it still produce both types? The rose combs are the way to go. There's a...
  20. Amyable

    Ancona Chicken Thread

    Quote: I like the look of your roo. Quote: This! WI winter is just too hard on big combs. Now, if I were able to use a rosecomb roo over rosecomb and single comb hens, would one comb type be dominant, or would it still produce both types?
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