CSU - Chicken State University- Large Fowl SOP

[Happy Chooks]

Not that I don't like the Columbian variety, but I really hope to see some Speckled Sussex to learn from. I love the coloring, and I hear it's quite a difficult pattern to master.

 

[math ace]

Hi,
Just to butt in. Light Sussex are an eWh based black and white Columbian. It doesn't work if one tries to use breeding advice for eb Columbian black and white based birds back and forth between the 2 locuses. eWh is pure which to the skin with no black in the white areas. eb based Columbians, depending on how the color balancing is done, can have black stippling in the white areas. They also need color balancing in the under fluff, unlike the eWh birds.

OMG Karen, you have to slow that genetic train down!

Go Figure... My brain can calculate the volume of shape formed by rotating a line in 3D space, but it simply refuses to wrap around all the genetics.

I get the idea that what applies to one breed, won't necessarily apply to another. The under fluff of the delawares are white, so I don't know about the color balancing in the under fluff..

I am sure what you said was important, Karen, BUT you will need to break it down more for me to understand it.

 

[math ace]

I am guessing that the one with the "sagging diaper" has a terrible underline at the rear of the bird. Any twisted tail feathers or wing feathers are a DQ.

Walt

Good thoughts here Walt.... When deciding how much fluff is too much fluff, the bottom line is it is too much if it ruins the shape of the bird.

Are there any breeds where the "sagging diaper" is viewed as a positive for the underline at the rear of a bird?

 

[math ace]

Walt,

Is the weird feather situation circled above a "twisted feather" . I followed a conversation you were having on a different thread and you mentioned that there were so many feathers in the tail and wing feathers. Can the above happed if there are some missing feathers or is it because the tail is pinched and the feathers are squeezing together?

If it is any help, I think this hen has a lot of cushion too.

 

[math ace]

I do not know what the problem is with this thread as far as Bantams. The only difference with the two is the weight, everything should be the same.

I thought the same thing, which is why I suggested posting them on here since there doesn't seem to be enough SS participants...

 

[math ace]

I usually just pick up a bird and feel them right behind the legs to the vent area and can usually tell if they are too fat because they are really hefty there and it will feel rather fatty and kind of squishy. I don't know how else to describe it really.

I weighed my birds tonight. I guess tomorrow, the family and I will go out grope some birds LOL...
Man, I hope the neighbors aren't watching! They already think we are strange

 

[math ace]

haha I can just picture Lisa running around checking her flock and singing this to them.

In a heartbeat!

It will just be a new verse to the old mantra of ...
I like Big Butts and I can not lie!

Now I can add...
I like Big, Wide, Tight Butts...

I think I might understand why my neighbors think I am strange

 

[math ace]

Not that I don't like the Columbian variety, but I really hope to see some Speckled Sussex to learn from. I love the coloring, and I hear it's quite a difficult pattern to master.

AMEN!

 

[math ace]

While I was snapping pics of my other birds, I accidently snapped this photo today. Take a note that his wing has been clipped. That should be OK because I was hoping to discuss his Type, his underline, his topline, etc...





I posted pics of him a 4 or 5 pages back, but this shot was just too good not to post... I wasn't even trying to get a pic of him LOL

 

[fowlman01]

Walt,

Is the weird feather situation circled above a "twisted feather" . I followed a conversation you were having on a different thread and you mentioned that there were so many feathers in the tail and wing feathers. Can the above happed if there are some missing feathers or is it because the tail is pinched and the feathers are squeezing together?

If it is any help, I think this hen has a lot of cushion too.

Is it a twisted feather or is it a father that is just not lining up well in the tail?

Walt