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Yes they are LF. Don't have any pics right now, but I might take some eventually :) They still need some work, tho. Maybe next year would be better :)

Hi Everyone! I haven't been around on BYC for awhile but I'm glad to see the Wyandotte Thread is as strong as ever! I have been working on Golden Laced for a while but I have decided to focus on Partridge and Silver Pencilled. That means I've still got a few nice GL (3 Pullets, 1 cockerel, 1...

Here is a pic of the father of these birds: the male from Dave Lefeber. He goes with the rest of them :)

Hello everyone, After that really original greeting... I have a nice starter flock of GLWs for sale. They are show quality and come from Dave Lefeber. I got a pair of birds from him at his farewell party and he died that same week. This year, I put that male with the hen I got from Dave...

He has a lot of good points. His overall appearance is very good. Combs a little rough. I would like to see the tail open a little more and I like a bird that holds his width all the way out to the end of the back. He looks a little tapered to me. Looks like he has nice lacing but I'm not the...

I cull as soon as I can based on several factors. I'm always looking for duck feet, webbed toes (on cochins), wry tail, slipped/split wing, etc. Those get culled basically as soon as they are found. I also like to weigh and cull based on the best growth if I have enough chicks for the year and...

Quote: why is it marked ch AOV? that stands for Champion All other Variety in the bantam Wyandottes. They lump...columbians, blues, buff, and I know there are a couple other colors together as All others.. This is only done at the National shows (eastern and western) for LF and Bantam. In LF...

Quote: You should make one cause I have some SLW I would post. A lot of the chatter on this thread is about SL Wyandottes. You certainly can post here. Frankly, I don't plan on following another thread but I do like reading about SL, etc.

Quote: If you can find a black or blue laced red that would be the best. If you use other stuff it would affect the color of the red Thanks! BLRW it is then! Now, just gotta find me a rooster! You could also use a Golden Laced. It should give you about %50 BLR, which is what you would get...

Quote: That's an idea! I thought I'd get a mishmash of colors crossing the two. I do have two cockerels in my SLW, so that is deffinately an option. Hoping they'll have great type. Breeding back to the original stock is not an option as I bought my GLW as 1 month olds. My odd girl, I...

Quote: I think it's a defect, probably recessive, that came out in her. You can see the pencilling, but it is all smutty and mossy. If you were breeding for color you wouldn't use her as a breeder. You could actually consider using a nice SL male on the GL females. You would get all silver...

Quote: If you don't have light on her, with this day length, she won't start until spring. If you do, she should start soon!

Quote: Well, those aren't exactly show quality but their lacing is fine. I have seen birds molt while on eggs and come back very different colored. This happens because the hormones are off a little and causes weird stuff to happen with the penciling on the partridge. It doesn't happen often...

Quote: This happens fairly regularly, I think. And birds do/can change colors a little each time they molt. I would like to see pics to get an idea of just how well-laced your birds are to begin with and what type of parent flock they came from. Sometimes a bird like that would be called a...

Quote: I would post this in the general breeding, genetics and showing category as a new thread, rather than inside an existing thread. You'll get a better response.

I'm sure it isn't as yellow as you'd like, but it's workable. You are talking about the rarest of the SOP varieties, so anything decent you find will be about as good as there is and any improvements you make will be helpful to the variety as a whole. As a teacher, I look at kids getting poor...

Although i try not to rush them too much, I don't have separate pens for the pullets and cockerels... they have gotten hormonal recently and that point is when i try and thin them out a bit. Like you I do tend to favor the ones that grow faster when i can. I don't want to set myself back in a...

Quote: As to SP Wyandottes, Duane has the about the best you'll find. They have pretty good color and type. Small, but what colored Wyandotte isn't?

Quote: I would like to get rid of one of them, i have quite a few roosters and they are hard on the hens. By spring i want to be down to 1 male and 2-3 hens. but i never rush the hens, there is always a market for beautiful laying hens and they don't get rough with each other. I have handled...

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's pretty common in adults, too, and a fault.