Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[madamwlf]

Those CCLs in the GFF newsletter have not been imported yet. GFF is looking to bring them in 2014. Do the current "new" 2013 line cockerels look the same?

Mine has that floppy comb. One hen has more silver in her and the other looks more like the hen I posted. What does the SOP call for in hen color?

 

[KPenley]

I was originally going to put him over the new line and the old line hens. I only have one pen so it's either a old line roo or a new line roo over the old/new hens.

Ah I understand. Seriously, none of my cockerals have that little red...if you're looking to rehome him...

 

[KPenley]

Mine has that floppy comb. One hen has more silver in her and the other looks more like the hen I posted. What does the SOP call for in hen color?

looking it up real quick...
From Jill's page:
Female:
The general characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences, except that the comb may be erect or falling gracefully over either side of the face without obstructing the eyesight, and the tail should be carried closely and not at such a high angle.
Male: Neck hackles cream, sparsely barred. Saddle hackles cream, barred with dark grey, tipped with cream. Back and shoulders cream with dark grey barring, some chestnut permissible. Wings, primaries dark grey, faintly barred, some white permissible; secondaries dark grey more clearly marked; coverts grey barred, tips cream, some chestnut smudges permissible. Breast evenly barred dark grey, well defined outline. Tail evenly barred grey, sickles being paler, some white feather permissible. Crest cream and grey, some chestnut permissible.
Female: Neck hackles cream, softly barred grey. Breast salmon, well defined in outline. Body silver grey, with rather indistinct broad soft barring. Wings, primaries grey-peppered; secondaries very faintly barred; coverts silver grey. Tail silver grey, faintly barred. Crest cream and grey, some chestnut permissible.
In both sexes: Beak yellow. Eyes orange or red. Comb, face, and wattles red. Ear-lobes pure opaque, white or cream, slight pink markings not unduly to handicap an otherwise good male. Legs and feet yellow.

 

[puglady]

I was over on the legbar thread reading up. I received a second batch of girls in early Nov and about 1/2 are uncrested. Looks like if I grow out one of the black Marans boys I can put them over the uncrested girls and get black sex link chicks. The resulting pullets should lay green eggs. A very interesting solution in what to do with my uncrested ladies.

 

[madamwlf]

Ah I understand. Seriously, none of my cockerals have that little red...if you're looking to rehome him...

I want to see how he turns out. Plus I have 4 other roos growing out that I hatched from GFF eggs, all of them have different coloring.

 

[KPenley]

Basically cream neck and hackles over grey body with salmon breast is the ideal.

 

[madamwlf]

Basically cream neck and hackles over grey body with salmon breast is the ideal.

So all of my silver breasted gals will eventually go or go into other pens as layers for eating eggs.

 

[KPenley]

I want to see how he turns out. Plus I have 4 other roos growing out that I hatched from GFF eggs, all of them have different coloring.

It's odd to me that all 4 would be so different, don't you think?

 

[KPenley]

So all of my silver breasted gals will eventually go or go into other pens as layers for eating eggs.

Do they have any pink or salmon? My Lucy's got darker around 20 weeks.

 

[madamwlf]

It's odd to me that all 4 would be so different, don't you think?

Normally yes, but not when it comes to GFF birds. Their birds haven't been all that consistent.