Hm. Different, but i wonder?? So how does one get fresh blood then?
Drat. I don't know now if i can have silked chocolat ams. Probably better to stick to choc; michigan winters are brutal and temps swing wildly. My partial silkied? For lack of description? Birds did ok but i hesitate for fully. It can be done but .....
My birds are pets as well and i would likely end up with another house bird if it suffered and i already have a delicate d'uccle, his lady,5 doves and a cat!
Found what i was talking about. "Filoplumes" her upper 2/3 of her back was haired with these, no real feathers. Then simpler forked hairs stuck out of her feathers all over if you looked close. Her daughters got the hairs and the ultra soft hard feathers but not the back. Definitely no silky in her blood; their comb/ skin/ feet are very dom and it would be obvious. Probably another random backyard mystery; farmers around here don't breed they tend to stick a flock out back and let nature take course and the ee's i have seen coming from these ee flocks seem closer to the south american descriptions. Another thing with her was the tea colored egg; *not * green or olive...which was supposed to be prevalent in the original south american birds. I will be patient, when the day comes i find another i will restart that line. I am still interested in chocolate ams, the less i have to outcross the better for my particular project. I like the true ee but the newer colors, ams are more refined and breed true so could keep the line "cleaner". The strain off ee i have chosen to focus on has a wider head, very short back, and is broad. Yellow skinned, head carried close to the body. Non winter laying; if i find another tea colored layer or soft haired one that bird would be my focus. Since chocolate takes black similar to lavendar i want to put that with my blue and rust. Would be a warm chocolate.
http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/body-systems/integumentary-surface-of-the-bird/
Drat. I don't know now if i can have silked chocolat ams. Probably better to stick to choc; michigan winters are brutal and temps swing wildly. My partial silkied? For lack of description? Birds did ok but i hesitate for fully. It can be done but .....
My birds are pets as well and i would likely end up with another house bird if it suffered and i already have a delicate d'uccle, his lady,5 doves and a cat!
Found what i was talking about. "Filoplumes" her upper 2/3 of her back was haired with these, no real feathers. Then simpler forked hairs stuck out of her feathers all over if you looked close. Her daughters got the hairs and the ultra soft hard feathers but not the back. Definitely no silky in her blood; their comb/ skin/ feet are very dom and it would be obvious. Probably another random backyard mystery; farmers around here don't breed they tend to stick a flock out back and let nature take course and the ee's i have seen coming from these ee flocks seem closer to the south american descriptions. Another thing with her was the tea colored egg; *not * green or olive...which was supposed to be prevalent in the original south american birds. I will be patient, when the day comes i find another i will restart that line. I am still interested in chocolate ams, the less i have to outcross the better for my particular project. I like the true ee but the newer colors, ams are more refined and breed true so could keep the line "cleaner". The strain off ee i have chosen to focus on has a wider head, very short back, and is broad. Yellow skinned, head carried close to the body. Non winter laying; if i find another tea colored layer or soft haired one that bird would be my focus. Since chocolate takes black similar to lavendar i want to put that with my blue and rust. Would be a warm chocolate.
http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/body-systems/integumentary-surface-of-the-bird/
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