Any Dutch Bantam Experts Out There?

[WildernessLofts]

I've decided to get into showing dutch bantams. Currently, I'm in a predicament as to over which pullets to keep. Should I keep the ones with the ashy-grey breasts, or the ones with the rich salmon breasts?

I ask because... I used to raise silver phoenix. However, they had a few modifiers in them that was causing the sickles/hackles to have a bit of a golden tint to them. A guy I know that is really good with phoenix said that I should keep the hens with the lighter breasts to breed this out.

So what I'm getting at is: What colour of breast do I want to breed in my silver dutch to make sure they are clean? Or should I "assume" that they are, anyway?

Also, if someone could show me the SoP on the silver variety, I'd much appreciate it. I can't find any dutch SoPs online. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

Oh, and also... for the cockbirds... Do I want black lines in the hackles/sickles? I know you want them to be a pure silvery white in OEGB, but I have no clue for the dutch.

Thanks!

 

[cgmccary]

I PM'd you. Check your messages.

 

[Smoky73]

First of all, check out the website www.dutchbantamsocietyamerica.com

There is a article page you might want to read about the silver variety.
http://www.dutchbantamsocietyamerica.com/articles/articleg.html

I do not raise the Silver so not too familiar with the variety but I do raise Cream Light Brown and Blue Cream Light Brown still.

You want the black striping in the saddle and hackles on the males and the feamles should have the salmon breasts not grey.
Here is the SOP for the Silvers.

Silver Dutch Bantam

COMB, FACE AND WATTLES: Bright Red
BEAK: Bluish horn
EYES: Reddish Bay
EAR LOBES: Pure White
SHANKS and TOES: Dark slaty blue

Color of Male

HEAD: Silvery white.
NECK: Hackle silvery white, a dull black stripe, free from shafting, extending down middle of each lower hackle feather, tapering to a point just short of lower extremity, the black stripe increasing in intensity and brilliance to a lustrous greenish black at the lower extremity. Front of neck rich glossy black.
BACK: Silvery white.
SADDLE: Same as hackle, but with less stripping than hackle.
TAIL: Main Tail black. Sickles, Lesser Sickles and Upper Coverts lustrous greenish black. Lower Coverts silvery white.
WINGS: Shoulders and Fronts black. Bows silvery white. Coverts – lustrous greenish black, forming a distinct bar across wings. Primaries dull black, lower edge of lower feathers, silvery white. Secondaries dull black, lower webs edged with white, exposed portion of outer web forming wing bay, white.
BREAST: Lustrous black.
BODY and STERN: Black.
LOWER THIGHS: Black.
UNDERCOLOR: Light slate in all sections.

Color of Female

HEAD: Silvery gray.
NECK: Hackle silvery gray, with narrow dull black stripe, free of shafting, extending down middle of feather, tapering to a point just short of lower extremity. Front of Neck light Salmon.
BACK and CUSHION: Surface of feather gray, formed of silvery white, finely stippled with ashy gray with more importance attached to fineness and evenness of color and freedom from shafting or regular penciling than to a particular shade of color, but it is important that the effect is that of a soft and even shade of gray; unexposed portion of feathers to be slaty gray.
TAIL: Main Tail black, except top two feathers which should be same as back. Coverts same as back.
WINGS: Shoulders, Fronts, Bows and Coverts same as back. Primaries dark slate, outer webs slaty gray. Secondaries dark slate, outer webs finely stippled with ashy gray, forming a wing bay to blend with body.
BREAST: Light Salmon, shading to gray under body, free from shafting.
BODY and STERN: Body gray, formed of silvery white, finely stippled with ashy gray, free from shafting. Stern Fluff, light ashy gray.
LOWER THIGHS: Same as body.
UNDERCOLOR: Light slate in all sections.

Disqualifications

Positive white in main tail or sickle feathers. DEFECTS: Reddish cast in female secondaries. Lacing or frostiness in female breast feathers. Excess of white fluff showing at base of tail in male. Penciling and/or vermiculation in female body, shoulders, fronts, bow and covert feathers. These feathers should be stippled over the entire surface right out to the edge of the feather.

 

[WildernessLofts]

Quote:
Yup. I've read that article before. I just wish that website would post the SoPs.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Smoky73]

No problem, but the website is where I got the standard from LOL

This is the page they are all on.
http://www.dutchbantamsocietyamerica.com/files/adbscolor.html

 

[WildernessLofts]

Wow! I must have missed it somewhere! LOL

Thanks. I feel dumb now.

 

[Smoky73]

Its okay, the fact that there is the SOP on the website is rare indeed. Most of the time, you do not find them anywhere except for the book. Us Dutch people are different I guess.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The silkie club lists the standard online, too.

 

[Jenski]

OP, I highly suggest PMing one of our forum genetics experts, Henk69 out of the Netherlands. He is an amazing wealth of knowledge, and you can get lost for hours in his genetics calculating website.

Good luck!