Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[campingshaws]

#5 (there was no 4 in the bands, but two 6s!) This is yolk butt, his band was still attached.

#6

 

[campingshaws]

The only isabel pullets.
#7

#8

 

[Kiki]

Camp..some have Crests! how cute.

I'm looking for my notes...to see how god/bad I was at guessing the sexes.

 

[campingshaws]

Camp..some have Crests! how cute.

I'm looking for my notes...to see how god/bad I was at guessing the sexes.

I know! It's bad for chickat's project, but secretly I love them.

 

[ChicKat]

LOL -
Actually, I do think that the crests on the females are an advantage - they are distinctive. In my view the really well clipped, neat, close crests are beautiful. In the Cream Legbars the crests started out smallish and neat - then people decided they needed to be little Madame Pompadours and wanted bigger and bigger and bigger CL crests

eventually hoping to look like a Polish-chicken wannabe.

Once the hen's vision is interfered with (including aerial predators - hawks, eagles etc.) -- I think the crest is a bad thing - even on female.

On male the crest interferes with the comb*. The bigger the crest the more wiggly, crooked and sloppy the comb (on CL males) -- it looks unsightly to me. I'm not a fan of combs anyway -- the chicken would be combless for me (look like little eagles)

Sooooooooo
my idea was to discard the crest to get a better looking male. Meanwhile CJWaldon is working on a crested version of the barred Isabel. Maybe the crested version will become the popular one. The more of us working on this and contributing, the better we'll know.
I'm a bit beyond the throw it all on the wall and see what sticks (the spaghetti theory) --
But I'm supportive of however people will manifest their barred Isabels.

They're growing so beautiful!
CampingShaws -- I'll be back later to blab on your gorgeous photos! I love the chicks.
ETA * Oh yeah and you know that the crest on the male expresses in a different way than the crest on the female. Male is more pointy like neck-hackles and female's is more rounded like her neck-hackles.

 

[ChicKat]

Post #560 - Thinking I hit 'quote' to relate back but not sure if it works the same in new BYC.

Love these chicks they are fabulous. Love the beak on #1 and #2 has some very definitive barring. Here the one with the extra face markings (bettyBoop) seems to have the most prominent barring - so I would tie that one back to one of the early leg-band babies with the added face mark on the chick down. (parallels - may or may not be spot on) So I go back to color-leg-band post and see 'dark blue band' and 'light blue band' have some extra face markings on chick down. Then go to beak pigment and see if there is a match. Meanwhile my computer is messing up and the rest of the pictures on that post are not showing up -- AND light and dark pink band show up side-by-side and it's the same photo.
- I've over used my monthly allotment of GB from DISH and so until it refreshes on the 27th it is slower than ever and THAT may be the problem with loading the pictures.... makes me nutz - but I refuse to pay them even more money for such bad service..... and I know -- whine and geeze party right? While I'm ,pamomg. O wosj that it was still possible to click in the upper right and see all the pictures in the thread...anyone recall that, use it, know if it is still available some other place?

The last chick - Just something about that chick resonates with me. How fantastic that the breast shows both the pink and the lavender in the plumage, IMO.

Each of these guys looks barred.

#1 in the second picture - there is a feather that is SO barred! Know what else? The size of your hand compared to the chicks -- such a difference they have grown So much!!
ETA #6 very saturated lavender -- nice.

Red band in earlier post -- such pretty big eyes and crested -- a dark mark on little beak.
Post #517 - my slow internet is struggling to load it in another tab. It's taking hours to load....


Was also trying to find that picture of the chick that I thought was so fabulous/enchanting that I left up in its own tab for a couple of days. Wonder if that is that same chick that resonates with me. LOL
Back when the computer is going to behave better....adios for now.

 

[campingshaws]

Thanks! The new BYC is not so easy mobile. I think the galleries still aren't finished being moved to the new platform? Should be easier to search for an image then I THINK. Kiki is really the problem silver for BYC conversion.

I'll try to get the splits tomorrow; I'm not banding then again since they're not as crucial to document. There is a gorgeous little cockerel in there, no barring and extremely saturated. He flies out of the brooder and closely supervises my filling of the feeder. Mr. Pink also flies out but he hits the ground running and is a huge pain to catch.

 

[campingshaws]

#8 is such a little dove! I think the extra-barred feather on #1 might be adult plumage. They should be gearing up for their juvie molt around 8 weeks? In the next week or so if I'm remembering correctly. Lots feathers in the brooder right now.

 

[ChicKat]

Agree all the way around -- and there are lots of molt feathers in the coop here too from the young'uns.

 

[cjwaldon]

I like the crests, big poofy "Madame Pompadours" as you put it ChicKat. They have a distinctive look, different than Polish. I'm not going for a Polish crest. I'm willing to tolerate crooked combs in the males in exchange for visually pleasurable hens. After all, the majority of most flocks are hens. However, I am hatching both crested and non crested. Both are appealing.

Here is one of my 8-week-old crested pullets.