I took a round of pictures of the 3/4 Dorkings. The first 2 are actually of Silver Leghorns who have the same pattern of Silver Grey Dorkings... mine were in a deep dark corner under the deck where they like to spend most of their time. The ground is still moist under there and its better scratching that the dusty dry grounds that the sun gets to everyday.
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Next is a possible example of a Silver Grey Dorking (Silver Duckwing). in a 13 week old cockerel
I struggle to tell if the males have a good pattern or not.
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Next is an example of a female with a halfway decent Silver Duckwing Pattern, her head is more black than white and it should white (or silver)
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Next is a bad picture but it looks like a red bird with a white head if the sun was not running interference on the shot. There is also a Columbian bird (very sloppy) in the shot.
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Here is a Columbian Patterned male, I will keep working on this pattern in an attempt to get more white and less black. Might be above my pay grade but it will be fun to try and if I fail I can eat the results. So far these crosses have been great layers of large Cream eggs. So even if I fail I am making some great dual purpose birds.
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Not sure if this is the same or a different bird than before but this is the Silver Grey pattern female with the red breast. Head still a little dark but its good enough to breed back to the Dorking male.
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This is a silver grey dorking on the nesting box, I hope she isn't broody! I am not in the mood to deal with mama birds and chicks this fall/winter. Last winter was a muddy mess. If she is broody I am taking out the dorking eggs and putting in something more hardy.
you can see her red breast.
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This is 2 pictures of one of the red ones that came from the reverse crossing of the other 3/4 Dorkings. I only hatched out a few of these. 2 out of 7 came out red. I might see if I can make Red Dorkings out of these even though its not the correct shade of red for a Red Dorking. Who cares anyways, I do not make show lines I make pet and Utility birds so I can have a line of a different shade of red.
Sure was nice of her to show us that wing! I got lucky and took a picture when she was stretching. As slow as my camera is it would be impossible to catch it on purpose.
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Most of the 3/4 Dorkings ended up looking like this, not really any recognizable pattern. One is an incomplete columbian just like her mother and the other seems like a very sloppy silver grey pattern with a lot of red leakage. Both seem like females.
