Buckeye Breed Thread

[WooingWyandotte]

That's great. Btw, I so wish I could send you pictures! But my dad currently has the camera and he's in Europe right now on a business trip...:/ So I'll have to do without the camera for another week or so.
But they are all so active; honestly, I've never had chicks this vigorous - and I've had quite a few. I'm already noticing them and their little personalities, it's so adorable. An that one with the twisted leg seems to be doing fine, after thoroughly examining it for the twentieth time, I've decided it's the joint with the issue. Again, how I wish I could post pictures.

You have his grandbabies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

So, if the back is supposed to be rather long & slopes slightly downward at the tail............then a higher tail is not correct ?
And a sloped back IS correct ?
My Cockerel shown has a broad back which from the "shoulders", actually slopes upward to the tail at that 40 degrees, not a great upwards slope, just slightly, none the less if it is supposed to slope downward (I am thinking turkey here, chest higher than the tail) would produce a bird without his legs directly in the middle of his body, a more upright bird rather than a balanced, level bird.
A poultry judge once described a level back as one you could set a cup of coffee on & it would not slide off the back.
And a downward slope the cup would fall off.
The drawings in the SOP show a perfectly level back on both sexes.so now I am confused, more.

 

[cgmccary]

Quote:
Ignore the SOP Buckeye drawing because it is the written description that counts and it has

"BACK: Rather long, broad throughout its length, sloping slightly downward to base of tail."

IMHO, a "sloping slightly . . ." the cup of coffee would not slide off the back but just be slightly tilted (a slight slope would not cause a "slide"). Also, it is what the body is doing underneath the feathers and not necessarily the outline of the feathers. And a Buckeye can stand ways that make it appear this way or that -- what I look at is its normal stance.

I have said that I think the current SOP Buckeye picture (1983) looks likes a folk art drawing, cheap like a cartoon, and I would not put any emphasis on it (the SOP picture, in the words of another Buckeye breeder, "looks like a RIR with high shoulders and pinched tail or a Java."). I like the older Buckeye pictures by Sewell in the SOPs1910,1915, 1921 . . .

 

[Chickielady]

I agree with the folk art description.....extremely poor rendition of a Buckeye.
I also raise Chantecler, and the body size, width & the stance is so close to a Buckeye...........not alot of difference in the 2 breeds as far as body sculpture itself, just a few diferences in feathering..I am an artist & specialize in wildlife, domestic animals.and so note the body's simalarities.
Buckeyes are closer shaped to a Chantie than a RIR any day !
I do wish "they" would stop comparing every American breed to a RIR.......been through that manure with the RIW...neither breed shared ancestry of any kind, yet the RIW is constantly referred to as a white version of the RIR !

As I have read, the Buckeye and the Chantecler DO share common ancestry in the formation of their breed.

More notibly the Dark Cornish or "Indian Game, among others.

Intersting reading.

 

[Chickielady]

happy to report (but not a bit surprised) that both broody Buckeyes have hatched their chicks...given 12 eggs each...it will be a while before the Moms get off the nest & I can see what is up, but, this morning, on day 21...I heard wee muffled peeps, and sure enough a little yellow head popped out from feathers on 1 mom.
The Black java hen, also in the same coop, has been sitting tight as well, and had 11 eggs.

Hopefully, they act true the heritage breeds, and hatch & raise their young as a village, and not fight, steal or kill each other's chicks.
So here now, is the experiment !

And hopefully I do not have to intervene & seperate the 3 Moms.
Pics to follow.

 

[bigshawn]

Congrats and good luck..............

 

[MA Mama]

Hello all!

I just hatched my first Buckeye chicks and I am wondering if there are any ways to sex them, even if unreliably, at one day old. I'll take old wives tales, I'm just interested in trying to predict the gender. I don't need to do it for any serious purpose. THANKS! I can't wait to see their personalities, from all I've heard they're incredible!

 

[retiredwithchicks]

My buckeyes are hatching!!!! Wish me luck!

I am a little late posting but hatch was not too bad but not excellent. I got 7 buckeyes form 24 shipped eggs and as of now they are doing really well. They are two weeks old now and pretty lively. Hopefully I can keep all them healthy and have my beginning of my buckeye flock.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

Woot! I have the camera and took a few pics yesterday.

 

[MA Mama]

Hi everybody! I am new to Buckeye and I just hatched 4. Would anyone like to help me with the genders? Thanks!




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