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Pictures please! They sound so lovely!

Wow! What a knockout!

According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ancient Polynesian chickens might not have migrated to South America as some scientists believe. Researchers came to their conclusion after comparing mitochondrial DNA taken from chicken bones from...

Or Silkies could have been transported to Central America by the Chinese in the 1400's during a period immense trading and sailing. Because the faction backing the trading fell out of power after the death of Zheng He (the admiral of the treasure ships) China retreated into a xenophobic pattern...

Some 20 years ago there was an article in National Geographic about a high mountain village in Peru who annually rebuilt their swinging rope bridge across this gorge. When interviewed the village elders explained that there village had been ordered to maintain this bridge back before the 1500's...

Well did you ever play the game Grapevine, where you whispered something into one persons ear and then they repeat the message whispered into the next persons ear? By the time you go 5 to 10 people the message mutates beyond recognition. That was why the pre-litterate peoples the world over used...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/402512/quechua-tojuda-ameraucana-easter-eggers-in-vino-veritas It is a nice read. With some updated research he could turn it into a really good book. My favorite part of his thread is the name he likes for Easter Eggers. These are the ones that have other...

That was what I was guessing. That is one of the lovely things about our level of science now. DNA doesn't make a mistake or lie. It is what it is. Now I am very new to exploring the South Am breeds. I have read Kermit's (Resolution) thread. It is one persons view of South America. I was a...

Well that is easy to fix. Just takes having the costs of about 5 to 10 DNA tests done on a sample population of the birds we have here. Then comparing them to DNA of birds that are from South America. Dr. Phil Sponnenberg who works with The Livestock Conservancy (formerly ALBC) would be who...

You can only be as honest as your own knowledge. You have very good points. German is my second language and I really need to activate the access code for my Spanish Rosetta Stone and get on with learning it. I am VERY PLEASED to hear about the preservationist in South America. The World Trade...

Yeah but that kind of money makes my DH more tolerant of my hobby! He is finally warming to the fact that it is nice that we usually have eating eggs now. When I butcher this mean roo out and make chicken and dumpling I am hoping for another approval rating jump. Right now I just have the Olive...

Gorgeous baby!

I thought it was the other way around that the Quechua brought more diversity to the EE's. At least diversity in color patterns.

Well that depends on your definition of EE. If you mean by EE those chickens that have modern production breeds added to the mix (this is referred to by some as North American Improved Quechua) then you would want to be breeding away from everything that they put in. You want fluffy beards and...

Black Quechua Olmec

Just got my digital thermostat. As soon as I get it installed I will incubate some free mutt eggs to make sure it will run right and then I will trust it to the Collancas or the Sweet Potato.

Well the Basket Bantam is one of the progenitors of the Quechua. It would make sense that you would get a throwback occasionally.

We had been talking about the inheritability of rumplessness. I made the statement that it could be that it was controlled by multiple genes and made an analogy to it working like a slot machine. Here is a scientific but clear to the average person description of this from Wikipedia...

Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me!!!!

I think the bantam Araucana rooster would do well with little "Bambina". She is probably reflecting a lot of the Koro Sea jungle fowl that is in that blood line and that is giving her the tiny size.