I have to talk POLISH!

[winniem13]

two weeks old now dose any one think this one is a white crested blue? or something else

So cute! My white crested blue was hatched with a white head, BUT I'm no expert.

 

[miohippus]

So cute! My white crested blue was hatched with a white head, BUT I'm no expert.

it is supose to be a black crested white that is what im hopeing for but don't know because the wing feather are blue

 

[PrairieChickens]

Sorry to disappoint, but those grown-up feathers its got are a pretty solid answer as to what color it's going to be. Once you start seeing "real" feathers, you can get a pretty clear picture of what color your adult bird is going to be. For what it's worth, though, I think it's gonna be a beautiful bird, even if it's not what you were hoping for.

 

[Lacey1988]

Ha she looks like elvis! So cute!

lol never thought of that but yeah she does lol....I'm going to breed her to my NN roo next year

 

[miohippus]

Sorry to disappoint, but those grown-up feathers its got are a pretty solid answer as to what color it's going to be. Once you start seeing "real" feathers, you can get a pretty clear picture of what color your adult bird is going to be. For what it's worth, though, I think it's gonna be a beautiful bird, even if it's not what you were hoping for.

i know they are pretty much the same as the adult feather but i was wonder if it would have white crest be cause the down looks blue on it;s head i was wondering if it would be all blue is there such a thing as an all blue polish?

 

[PrairieChickens]

i know they are pretty much the same as the adult feather but i was wonder if it would have white crest be cause the down looks blue on it;s head i was wondering if it would be all blue is there such a thing as an all blue polish?

Until the adult feathers start coming in on the crest, I couldn't say what it'll be, but I'm sure I've seen a blue polish before.

 

[winniem13]

OK for all you show folk's out there....I have 2 polish (bantam) roosters, both the same age, 7 months. They are very good looking birds, perfect disposition, and definately keepers. I weighed them tonight with a rabbit scale, and one weighs 26 oz. and the other weighs 32 oz. So big boy is 2 oz. over the adult cock ounce size, and smaller boy is almost dead-on for cockerel. The bigger one seems more mature--longer tail feathers, etc., whereas the smaller one seems to just be growing a tad slower, but both are great looking. My question is, I am taking them both to the APA show in NC in December. Should I enter the bigger one as a cock (and put him on a diet, ha!), and the smaller one as a cockerel, or should I stay strictly by age and put both as cockerel? They are different colors and obviously different parents, so they don't look like twins. What do you think I should I enter them as?

 

[PrairieChickens]

I got big news! My Polish have finally started laying I got my very first white egg today!

 

[rosewolf22002]

Sweet! I am very happy for you PrairieChickens!

 

[PrairieChickens]

Aw, man, I just barely missed getting the most EPIC Polish photo ever. We were out in the yard and I spooked up a sulfur butterfly... the butterfly flutters right past Chicky Gaga who immediately shoots off after it. It zigs, she zigs. It zags, she zags. When the butterfly lifts higher into the air, Chicky Gaga launches INTO the air and proceeds to chase it WHILE FLYING. She must have flown ten feet trying to catch that silly butterfly. I tried to get a shot, but she was just moving too fast, and I ended up just getting a bunch of blurry photos of nothing.

This is the closest I came to getting a shot of it. This is her coming in for a landing, and of course, I'm focused on the background, not her...