Red band
Clear band
Green band
Blue band
Yellow band
Clear band
Green band
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Chantecler Thread!
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PollitosNS
In the Brooder
Gorgeous birds and great shots!
Thank you.
Updated images. They're growing quickly. Yellow band kept crawling into my lap, so unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of him. He's pretty much a slightly beefier twin of blue band.
Red band pullet
Orange band pullet
Right to left: Red band pullet, photobombing EE, blue band cockerel, orange band pullet.
Green band cockerel
Far right
I think he has a rose comb. Thoughts?
Clear band pullet
Red band pullet
Orange band pullet
Right to left: Red band pullet, photobombing EE, blue band cockerel, orange band pullet.
Green band cockerel
Far right
I think he has a rose comb. Thoughts?
Clear band pullet
Twist, you scared wishing off w/ the trolls.
Banty, first pic is my fav. just them eyes ! they are all good looking to me.
Banty, first pic is my fav. just them eyes ! they are all good looking to me.
Wrong thread, granny... Lol. Thank you.
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OMG LOL So sorry all.
Banty, I used to read a serious breeder's thread on Rocks, just out of curiosity, was very interesting. Shape before color was important. They would say, build the barn first and then paint it. They also talked about how to take useful pictures to show the bird's type (shape, confirmation) and that most pictures won't tell the whole story because it is just a moment frozen in time.
These views are good to show the width. For a rock, they would have criticized a pinched tail, which generally means less room for laying eggs, and they were looking for a wider pelvis on a dual purpose bird. Rocks were bred to be thrifty and productive. (Don't know what your breed should look like.)
This pic shows how wide the legs are set, and this bird would have been selected for a nice wide stance.
Good standing profile pics are hard to get, but they looked at the angle of the tail and how the wings were set and the overall outline of the bird. Biggest problem was trying to predict how a younger bird would finish out, when they didn't mature until 18 months. And that's what I learned from the Plymouth Rock thread. If I knew the Chantecler SOP I could look at pics with you, but decoding what they mean in the SOP is the hard part. "... should have a clean sweeping line..." is something they might say in an SOP, but my idea of that is probably different than the next guy's. It's good to find people who show to help you see what they are looking for.
What kind of comb are they supposed to have? It doesn't look like a rose comb to me, but I am far from an expert. Pea, rose, and cushion??? I only have my Wyandotte for a rose comb. Pea combs aplenty around here, but I'm still not sure what yours have.
EDITED!!! Banty, not sure how I got on this thread...
thought I was posting on granny's! I'm sure the folks on here can help you way more than I ever could. I think the birds are beautiful!
Thanks, wishing. I am absolutely going for shape and type over colour, doing anything else would be shooting myself in the foot.Banty, I used to read a serious breeder's thread on Rocks, just out of curiosity, was very interesting. Shape before color was important. They would say, build the barn first and then paint it. They also talked about how to take useful pictures to show the bird's type (shape, confirmation) and that most pictures won't tell the whole story because it is just a moment frozen in time.
These views are good to show the width. For a rock, they would have criticized a pinched tail, which generally means less room for laying eggs, and they were looking for a wider pelvis on a dual purpose bird. Rocks were bred to be thrifty and productive. (Don't know what your breed should look like.)
This pic shows how wide the legs are set, and this bird would have been selected for a nice wide stance.
Good standing profile pics are hard to get, but they looked at the angle of the tail and how the wings were set and the overall outline of the bird. Biggest problem was trying to predict how a younger bird would finish out, when they didn't mature until 18 months. And that's what I learned from the Plymouth Rock thread. If I knew the Chanteclear SOP I could look at pics with you, but decoding what they mean in the SOP is the hard part. "... should have a clean sweeping line..." is something they might say in an SOP, but my idea of that is probably different than the next guy's. It's good to find people who show to help you see what they are looking for.
What kind of comb are they supposed to have? It doesn't look like a rose comb to me, but I am far from an expert. Pea, rose, and cushion??? I only have my Wyandotte for a rose comb. Pea combs aplenty around here, but I'm still not sure what yours have.
Vigour too... I'm going to be using green as a main breeder because he is the healthiest and liveliest. Add in the fact he's built like a tank with a nice wide body, and he ends up being the best of all the cockerels. At this point in time, anyway.
They're supposed to have cushion, but due to the genetics involved rose combs do pop up. They can be very difficult to tell apart on the Chantecler, especially juvies. From what I've read on this thread, cushion combs have small hairs evident on parts, while rose combs won't. Also, the back is generally more pointed.
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Appears I got both you and granny with my link to here. Any help is much appreciated, as it seems to be real slow around these parts.EDITED!!! Banty, not sure how I got on this thread...
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