Landrace project F1 chicks!!!

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Any ideas on pullets vs roos? Idk about Pee-wee... Seems a bit suspicious with the comb...

Here's this lil gal I named Juniper I assume is a pullet:

This is Pee-wee:

This is one of the nameless ones I'm still unsure of:

And here's the whole gang! (More or less )

 

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Vorak and Gunter are getting their juvenile feathers nicely!

 

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These are some of the chicks now!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Over the past few weeks all the birds have grown a ton!!! And Vorak is a wonderful show of that! He's grown a LOT since I took photos of him last! Here's a photo of him from today! He's like 5ish months old now and looking great!

This was him at roughly 3 months if I remember correctly!

 

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Vorak and Gunter are getting their juvenile feathers nicely!View attachment 4130214View attachment 4130212

Gunter has had a bit of a glow up too!

 

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Tiger Lily has become one of my favorite hens so far!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Okie dokie, so I've got some updates! I'll try to explain what I've done with my project recently and all the new things over done, but I might have to give the rest of it later today

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Okay, so after letting them kinda do their thing sleeping in trees and fully free ranging them, I've decided to put them in their own coops for the winter. I've sold off quite a few hens from my hatch back in April and moved the others that I don't have a plan for in a coop with my Legbar roosters.

I've also moved Vadakor in with two of his birchen daughters. Instead of being part of the actual landrace flock, they'll be line bred into the Vadakorian Brush-Fowl (smaller more robust birds excellent at flying, but also moving quickly through thick brush) they'll only have silver birchen as a color variety. I'm super excited with how these guys will do further down the line! I can't wait to hatch eggs in the spring!!!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

However I think you'll all find the actual landrace strain to be super interesting as well!!! But I'll have to talk more about that later!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I'm finally back! As most of you know, I wanted to keep this landrace project as one general group of birds. However with Vadakor carrying a birchen gene I've decided to make sure that the actual landrace flock is a mix of the most ressesive genes along with extended black as the one and only super dominant gene, meanwhile the birchen gene will not be present within the landrace.

I'm using Saffron since I'm assuming he's Birchen/Wheaten or Birchen/Partridge Brown. I'm crossing him back to his mom and his aunt. I'll be line breeding the best male offspring with Partridge Brown and/or Wheaten, essentially getting rid of the Birchen gene leaving Partridge Brown and Wheaten along with a small amount of Extended black in the line! I'll also be trying to make sure they have crests and a variety of egg colors with a tab beige bring the most common, although I'm not entirely sure about feather feet. Saffron has been one of my best flyers and while fully free range he routinely slept a good 20ft high in one of the tallest trees of my property. Although Saffron may be twice the size of Vadakor, he's also got wings that are twice the size. He did get paralyzed from what I'm assuming was a deficiency in something, but he's all better and still and incredibly agile. The hens he's with are also incredibly good at flying. Even before I started this project I've been selectively breeding for longer wings in my birds and it's definitely been paying off!