Hello! and welcome to the OEGB thread.

[GotGame]

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You will find very few serious OE Breeders maintaining or showing Self Blue due to feather quality problems common to the variety. Sickles are almost always weak and thin as well other feathers being thin and brittle.

I believed this has been solved in other breeds, and it can be solved here aswell..

Nica, are there other breeds that have the full tails like oegb, that were self blue? I know of the duccles, but they seem to always have that same problem. I know some folks that are half a dozen generations into self blue moderns, dame problems.

 

[sjarvis00]

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You will find very few serious OE Breeders maintaining or showing Self Blue due to feather quality problems common to the variety. Sickles are almost always weak and thin as well other feathers being thin and brittle.

I believed this has been solved in other breeds, and it can be solved here aswell..

I know ther fighting the same problem in Orpington, Cochin and others. You can reduce the problem for a generation or two by crossing with black but the resolution is short lived once breeding Self Blue x Self Blue is resumed.

 

[nicalandia]

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I believed this has been solved in other breeds, and it can be solved here aswell..

Nica, are there other breeds that have the full tails like oegb, that were self blue? I know of the duccles, but they seem to always have that same problem. I know some folks that are half a dozen generations into self blue moderns, dame problems.

Leghorns...

 

[GotGame]

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Nica, are there other breeds that have the full tails like oegb, that were self blue? I know of the duccles, but they seem to always have that same problem. I know some folks that are half a dozen generations into self blue moderns, dame problems.

Leghorns...

We need photos!

How many generations into self blue x self blue are they? The first few generations of a good outcross will show improvements, but continual breeding of sb x sb will reduce feather quality. At least from my studies and reading.

 

[nicalandia]

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Leghorns...

We need photos!

How many generations into self blue x self blue are they? The first few generations of a good outcross will show improvements, but continual breeding of sb x sb will reduce feather quality. At least from my studies and reading.

http://www.leghorn.nl/artikelen/Isabel patrijs-UK.pdf

you can add. lavender

nice reading on Blue(Bl/bl+) plus lav/lav

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[GotGame]

Do you have pics of self blue leghorns? Especially the cock birds.... how many generations of sb x sb are they?

 

[lcw1995]

what do you all think about my little wheaten pullet

usually her tail is higher but she wouldnt stand in her usual pose

 

[hdowden]

ok when should he be dubbed? hes 5-6 months old, and from a hatchery so not the best but he is oegb

 

[sjarvis00]

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Overall based on the photos not bad, the item of concern to me is the apparent stippling on the wing primaries or is this just an illision based on the photo? The Black areas within the wing should be solid in color rather than stippled.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Dub them once the tail is finished, I do not think his comb is finished growing yet either, wait another 6 weeks from the time of this photo.