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Yes, I will be breeding them as soon as the snow's gone. I'm putting the two drakes on the hen, so as to increase whatever little genetic diversity I can. I'll start spiral breeding them after that. I'll be trying to start a trace of the breed's history this spring, along with the Bow Lake fowl...

70%cocoa : Yes, that is right. Buffs are homozygous for several recessive colour genes that we know about (dusky, chocolate and buff). You can tell that by looking. No testing required for those genes. Are you sure they only have one Blue dilution gene though? That'd be something to test for...

Quote: Yes. So let me ask you a retorical question in answer.... What is the exact origin of the Dorking? Or the Termonde? Or the Malay? Yes, we don't know the origin of the Bessy, but that means nothing more than that.

Quote: All three: {md/md; Bl/bl+; d/d; bu/bu} As you can see, the genetics of a Buff are very weak and can't easily have any hidden genetics (recessive).

Quote: No i believe Domestic mallards were bred to lay more than their wild counter part. I know that, you know that but I wanted to know if they know that. This duck at around 14lb and looking a bit like a buff duck is going to lay more than 1 months worth of eggs a year. I was being a bit...

Quote: No i believe Domestic mallards were bred to lay more than their wild counter part. Not neccesarily, some breeds, like Rouens, (probably the Bessies), Spotteds, Aylesburies, and a few others, have not been bred to extend laying.

Quote: I certainly do understand that I have my work cut out for me. That is why I decided not to sell any specimens for a year or two. I have to make sure the breed 'works'. I was able to take stewardship over Bow Lake fowl so quickly because, I am not the only one who raises them, there are...

Quote: No, it's domestic mallard. Wildtype means like wild; colored like wild, or, acts like wild, or, in this case, lays like the wild mallard.

Sorry, I said that incorrectly. I meant an egg a day for about a month like most wildtypes do.

Quote: No. 15-30 eggs a day over 2 a month in the spring.

Also, I assume They will only lay 25-ish a year, judging by their type. We'll see.

Quote: I'll be weighing them soon. The laying rate (eggs per annum), I have to trap nest for a year. I'll see to that.

Quote: I believe so. They seemed to be finishing the moult when I bought them, in late November. Come to think of it, that would explain the 'scraggly' or 'muscovy' look people kept reporting earlier in this tread.

70%cocoa : Yes, I see the kind of mottled look on the sides and top of the head. Is it like that right after a full moult? I believe so. They seemed to be finishing the moult when I bought them, in late November. But I just noticed the barring when I was moving them into the barn today (for...

Smooth.

Quote: Aah, here they are.... Look at the top of the head.

Bessy males tend to have that odd brown/lavender pattern on there head that I like, too.

70%cocoa : I think they're suggesting they'd rather have layer type than roasting type Probably fear for their future!

My Bessemers just suggestively got a scale and some appetite suppressant for Christmas. Just joking!

Quote: That's the paragraph from Holderread's book, isn't it? I recognise it. I'm not too concerned about getting it into the SOP right now, I might think about in a couple of generations. The male and female I'll be breeding together have a close body shape, so they should produce some with...