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[BunnyMomma]

I'm working to improve the Spangled Orloffs (both LF & bantam)...and all of the other breeds I'm working with! The gene pool is pretty shallow and people have been puppy-mill/mass-producing chickens for years...it's sad.

The one color project I have left are dun-laced Wyandotte bantams.

I love the dun-laced Wyandottes that you have on your website. The wyandottes have such a sweet personality. You are doing a great job with your birds. I have a Step daughter that lives in WA. I've never been there, but she is supposed to have twins in June. We will probably take a trip out after the twins are born.
It looks like a beautiful place.
Bunny

 

[alohachickens]

These are great guys!

Aloha: I've been following your project thread, and have been loving it. I adore the variety of markings/colors they have coming in. These two have been my absolute favorites so far:

Thanks for the compliments, Punk-a-doodle! Fun thing - the SISTERS of the bottom rooster are going to be crossed with the TOP rooster, if all goes well, this fall. I can't wait to see what that cross makes! The worst part of doing projects is the WAITING. Ha ha!

I can't wait to see more people experiment with the Dun gene. Dun Laced anything sounds really cool. And now y'all have seen the new Chocolate Orps that Greenfire imported? Oh, the projects that are going to spring out of those!

 

[ElizabethAz]

I have a project I have abandoned..so I don't feel bad about discussing details

When I mmoved out into the country and could finally have chickens, I started building a coop...I had the intention of getting White faced Black Spanish--but somehow got landed with a bunch of boring white leghorns. Not only did they lay white eggs--which made the chicks impossible to sell here in the Grand State of Arizona...but they would lay a TON of white eggs....

I am not as shallow as the average consumer--I could care less what color the egg was that popped out--just as long as I got eggs. What bothered me was the boring WHITE. Sooooo I did research and as it turns out. Leghorns DO come in other color varieties. Cuckoo, Buff, Brown, Silver, Blue, Splash...even rose and single combs!

As luck, or lack of luck, would have it.. a pack of dogs managed to get into my coop and killed many of my chickens. I used this excuse to import 'color' into my flock. I got a Crele leghorn rooster, a few AustraWhites (black australorp x white leghorn), and a couple Cuckoo leghorns. The chicks out of the Austra White x Crele were stunning.

They were 'Calico' All white with large patches of brown and speckled/splashed with black spots. I loved it! So I got another White Leghorn rooster, and some more hens and started trying to 'clean up the color' The hens always had a silvery blue color to their feathers, where as the roosters were pretty clean. This lack of uniformity annoyed me.

My ultimate goal With my Calico project was to have crisp white birds with the brown patches or Speckles, but I wanted to see more Black...my next experiment was going to be introducing the splash gene. The birds maintained the size of the standard Leghorn, and layed off-white eggs. This project was only two years old, but in my opinion showed promise.

I sold all the hens, and all but One of my roosters--who is unfortunately still here..
Pictured is a 7month old Cockerel from this project--My ideal Roo was sold with the hens, this is his brother.
He has the appropriate amount of brown, but its too faded, and he lacks the black splashing his brother had; making him a very poor representation of the other birds of better quality that I produced, but he's the only one I have a picture of--enjoy

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i looked all over last year to get some dun laced and no luck... so please keep them going im not in a position to add another breed right now but am still very much intrested...

I'm working to improve the Spangled Orloffs (both LF & bantam)...and all of the other breeds I'm working with! The gene pool is pretty shallow and people have been puppy-mill/mass-producing chickens for years...it's sad.

The one color project I have left are dun-laced Wyandotte bantams.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

The dunlaced are awesome. When we made ours years back, I loved them. The khaki laced birds aren't as attractive as the normal duns. It can be a fun project to work with if you have the right birds.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i would love to breed it into LF i was planing on getting a hatchery hen and a bantam roo and then breeding to some SQ LF after that... the other option is for me to learn how to AI lol...

The dunlaced are awesome. When we made ours years back, I loved them. The khaki laced birds aren't as attractive as the normal duns. It can be a fun project to work with if you have the right birds.