In Demand

[galanie]

Anyhow, what I'd like is a big puffy bird with a crest lol. Dual purpose. I couldn't give a care what color the eggs are so long as they're mostly large. And of course they must come in different colors. My favorite right now is blue and splash but I also love just about anything that isn't white. For some reason white chickens are like white flowers to me: Why bother? You want flowers for color, why have flowers with no color? hehe. Now that I read this back, sounds like I want a crested Orpington. That would be pretty cool I think.

Have you considered Houdans?

I have looked at those. They are cool, but not nearly as fluffy puffy as my blue girls

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

I would like to see a crested large fowl,but not so big of a crest that it can't see to free range. bearded, brown to green eggs,and like the easter eggers when bred together you will never know what cool color you will get. And frizzled. Very broody.

 

[Nambroth]

I think it'd be somewhat unrealistic to expect a completely crow-less rooster. However I do think, if it's possible, that it'd be great to breed with a focus on 'less frequent' crowing, or even a quieter crow. I'd love to see someone also breed for temperament in said roosters. If someone could produce a line that was less likely to crow often, or had a quieter crow, and were not jerks, there'd be a lot of demand for them for small backyard flocks.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

I would like to see a crested large fowl,but not so big of a crest that it can't see to free range. bearded, brown to green eggs,and like the easter eggers when bred together you will never know what cool color you will get. And frizzled. Very broody.

Now that was a mouthful

! Fortunately, it's very possible, but there'd have to be a myriad of breed's in it's ancestry. I personally would like a Blue-egging, Long-tailed, Booted, Walnut-combed, multi-colored fowl.

And I agree, most of the fun with EEs, Seramas, and Icelandics is that there breeding results in such a random cacaphony of offspring. You never know what your gonna get.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Anyhow, what I'd like is a big puffy bird with a crest lol. Dual purpose. I couldn't give a care what color the eggs are so long as they're mostly large. And of course they must come in different colors. My favorite right now is blue and splash but I also love just about anything that isn't white. For some reason white chickens are like white flowers to me: Why bother? You want flowers for color, why have flowers with no color? hehe.
Now that I read this back, sounds like I want a crested Orpington. That would be pretty cool I think.

You mean like this: Before you ask, the color is Barred Wheaten. And this is a Polish Courtyard hen.

 

[galanie]

Anyhow, what I'd like is a big puffy bird with a crest lol. Dual purpose. I couldn't give a care what color the eggs are so long as they're mostly large. And of course they must come in different colors. My favorite right now is blue and splash but I also love just about anything that isn't white. For some reason white chickens are like white flowers to me: Why bother? You want flowers for color, why have flowers with no color? hehe.

Now that I read this back, sounds like I want a crested Orpington. That would be pretty cool I think.

You mean like this:  Before you ask, the color is Barred Wheaten. And this is a Polish Courtyard hen.

Really close! How big do they get?

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

I have no idea how big they get, but they aren't bannies. Their one of those breeds that you find here and there on feathersite with hardly any info... I'll check...

... Okay it does have a weight, but it's all metric to me... 1.8 - 3 kgs. (which to me translates: the size of a chicken

)...

 

[Illia]

There are Sulmtalers in the US now. Very very similar to that hen, in fact they even come in Wheaten, but aren't barred.

 

[galanie]

I have seem Sulmtalers and love them. A bit out of my price range for quite a while, I'm betting.

 

[Gresh]

Well, since my Oriental Gamecock wound up being not-so-game, I decided I would like to cross him with another breed of chicken to try to produce a very active, capable free-ranger bird.

First of all, I would like to produce a bird that bears a resemblance to the Kraienkoppe, a rare Dutch-German breed that has Leghorn and Oriental blood in it. However, I want a bird that is bigger than the Kraienkoppe and perhaps more heat-tolerant than cold-tolerant (my section of the country is more warm than cold most of the year, and even the winters are pretty mild). To get a bird like this, I am thinking about crossing my Oriental stag with some Rose-Combed Brown Leghorn hens. This would produce some walnut-combed offspring and would give the resulting crosses a bit more size to them. I want the Leghorn blood for egg-laying ability, but the Oriental blood should pass on some broodiness to the crosses. I am hoping that the final result would be a bird with a tall, erect posture, walnut-comb, small-medium waddles, tail carried at a roughly 45 degree angle, and some capacity for flight. I am assuming that the Leghorn blood will make the crosses a little more flighty than my Oriental stag is, but as long as they trust me to some extent and do not become manfighters, I deem this flightiness to be desirable because it will help them be alert to predators.

My Oriental stag is Silver Duckwing in color, and I hope that by crossing him to the Brown Leghorn hens that the offspring will be Golden Duckwing or something close. Idealistically, I would prefer offspring with fewer bright colors so that predators would not notice them so easily, but Golden Duckwing is sure to not be as noticeable as white or buff.

Any suggestions about my plans would be appreciated

Great idea, Banny Hen, for making this thread!

~Gresh~