Cochin Thread!!!
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Chicken diapers! Man, I have SO much to learn!!!!!!
That is sooo awsome! So out of the pack does she rule the roost (no pun intended) or does she just go with the flow? That is just so cool - if I could let some of my chicks run free in the house with diapers that would be extreme but my husband would KILL me and my family would think I've gone even more around the bend.
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Not a problem. Cochinman should post some of his. He has much better examples.
Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
Not a problem. Cochinman should post some of his. He has much better examples.
Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
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Oh my goodness! I thought I was the only one who kept a pet chicken in the house! Mine stays in a large rabbit cage turned coop, and comes out to perch by the deck doors in the afternoons to watch the world go by. Now that it's beginning to warm up -well it did for a few days, then back to winter - I'm making a chicken tractor so she can be outside digging and eating bugs while I'm in the garden.
Oh my goodness! I thought I was the only one who kept a pet chicken in the house! Mine stays in a large rabbit cage turned coop, and comes out to perch by the deck doors in the afternoons to watch the world go by. Now that it's beginning to warm up -well it did for a few days, then back to winter - I'm making a chicken tractor so she can be outside digging and eating bugs while I'm in the garden.
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Not a problem. Cochinman should post some of his. He has much better examples.
Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0837a.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0826a.jpg
On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
Not a problem. Cochinman should post some of his. He has much better examples.
Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0837a.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0826a.jpg
On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
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Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0837a.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0826a.jpg
On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
Breast base color and what's showing in the wings is about right. The hackle and saddle are too orange. They need to be closer to the color of the wing bar/bay/shoulder color.
Posting as suggested. The GL's typically have poor lacing (incomplete), and the ground color is too light. The males should not have a variance in color between hackle, back/shoulders, and saddle. The ground color should be the same shade. The pullet in the photo with the black is actuall a cross between a GL male and a SL Wyandotte (with single comb) female. I did this to improve lacing, which worked very well. I used two of these cross pullets this year and bred both to the male in the other photo. He carries fairly good type for a GL, and acceptable lacing. Again, the variance in shade of ground color front to back is not desired, but typical of most GL's out there today. I have hatched probably 50 or 60 GL chicks so far this year. Some are pure GL, and others are various outcrosses that I've done. With all the crosses this year there is a pure GL in one half of the breeding. I'll try to take some pics of the oldest group of youngsters (7 weeks) this weekend.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0837a.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15970_dscn0826a.jpg
On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
Breast base color and what's showing in the wings is about right. The hackle and saddle are too orange. They need to be closer to the color of the wing bar/bay/shoulder color.
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On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
Breast base color and what's showing in the wings is about right. The hackle and saddle are too orange. They need to be closer to the color of the wing bar/bay/shoulder color.
I think my roo has a bit more uniform color, but probably a bit too red:
On the roo, I see the 3 different shades you are talking about on the hackle, wing and saddle. Maybe 4 if you add in the primary, which appears closest to the lacing on the breast. Which would you consider the preferable color, and closer to "Golden Bay"?
Breast base color and what's showing in the wings is about right. The hackle and saddle are too orange. They need to be closer to the color of the wing bar/bay/shoulder color.
I think my roo has a bit more uniform color, but probably a bit too red:
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