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Well, I guess that helps A LOT!
Somebody told me once to find a nice RIR and breed it with a Chantecler roo that I could be able after a couple of generation to have a Red Chantie...I guess this is too easy hey?
Thank you Chantecler7 for the nice compliment (well, I guess it is a...
WOW!!! Tara, what a work you have done.
I ubderstand, wel, not a lot about geneitc here. Considernig that you worked hard to have a certain kind of red, there is no way at all to have it breed threw? So that is why I will ask the next question. I always taught that the Buckeye looked a lot...
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I know that the question has been ask for Buff and the response add the Partridge, but as far as the Chantecler (original one) had been develop, brooding has to be avoid since when the hen go broody, she is not laying and we are looking for good layers.Just wanted to differenciate the 3...
Here's an example of his coq...
As for the pullet I take this picture and superimpose a picture of my pullet on top of it and check the difference (you know the 2 pictures are the same scale) same for the roo...
There is the same one in the Chantecler document from Frere Wilfrid...
The back angle is a bit harder to reach on a pullet than a roo. Here I take the standard picture (drawing) of a pullet of frère Wilfrid and aim toward the same body. The problem on a roo and pullet's back is to reach and strait back but leaning backward without a bumb on the back and tail at 30...
Did you notice if the lost had anything to do with the fact that their weren't any mature roo around to warn the babies? Here the only lost to a predator that I got was at the beginning when I had only young birds without experiences. Now I can hear the roo warning the troup when something...
I hope you will try again cause tge way you describe tgem well...doesn't sound Chantecler to me.. way too small and the rois aren't agressive though almost all the starting brreds were "fighting" breeds.....you have to have that proud and fighting looks in the male....
Isabelle
Good day everyone...
I just tumble on this thread and glad to see people in the States breedeing the Chantecler. I have read almost all the comments but wnated to step in before the end to clear a couple of things if you don't mind.
The Chantecler subject here in Quebec is a hot one...