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They are visually black but when bred back to a lavender can produce lavender. It is done primarily because there is another gene that links with the lavender that causes poor feather structure. Breeding back to black improves the feather structure. Some of these folks who actually breed the...

How do you tell the difference between curled toes that are a genetic deformity and curled toes because your protein percentage is too high?

At what age do you use a toe punch? I have just gotten into chickens and plan on hatching a lot in the spring. I was wondering about how to use this system. Has anyone made an instruction article on BYC?

Hatchery guineas are like that. Also guineas from lines that have next to no human contact. I have seen guineas that come from lines that have been hand raised (like you would a pet chicken) for about 3 generations that hold trust in their humans and are not psycho freaks. There is an inherited...

It was explained to me on the Barred Holland thread that the slow feathering + the Columbian gene + the Barr gene = clear clean barring. The Barred gene alone gives you the Cuckoo appearance. It is also useful if you want to be able to sex your roosters before they crow. If you think you are...

The white ones should be recessive white. They won't carry the lavender at all.

Try putting a little olive oil on your finger tips and stroking the feathers up the shafts and then smoothing the oil from the shaft out to the tips brushing the ragged edges together. If this mostly fixes the raggedness then she may not be producing enough oil from her oil gland or she is not...

I was just reading about Green Jungle Fowl and you have to very carefully feed them while growing so their toes don't curl. This is from Feathersite.com on their article on Green Jungle Fowl: In captivity, the diet should include nutritious fruits with oil soluble vitamins, like the North...