Maiden Rock Bantams

[awesomefowl]

Wow! How much do they cost?

 

[Celtic Hill]

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Check out the website, such great info on them!!

 

[JohnGalt]

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[phasianidae]

Wow! They are amazing! I love the head on the hens especially, the clean face and non existent comb and tiny wattles. I cant wait to see more pics.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Wow, the close ups actually remind me a lot of my lone, beardless Orloff pullet. (About 8 months now.)



The Maiden Rocks are certainly different though. The beaks are longer, thinner. But my girl also shows no significant comb development, a strong, curved beak, and rather cavernous nostrils. I wonder if she has a similar genotype, then?

Now, just breed out the crow in your roos and you will have created the perfect Alaska city chicken.

 

[ccoomber]

Ohh those are gorgeous! Shame your not in the UK, i would SO be on your waiting list for 2012!

 

[JohnGalt]

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[phasianidae]

What color is their skin?

 

[JohnGalt]

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[phasianidae]

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Ryan,

That is a good question. My ultimate goal is for all three pattern varieties to have willow shanks and yellow skin. Currently the penciled variety is the most consistent for this trait. Yellow skin is a recessive trait, plus all of the breeds used in their development have white skin and blue shanks - so the yellow skin has been a tough trait to get set in the breed. I think that the willow shanks are more fitting for the breed’s ‘wild look’ and I prefer it in the kitchen. Such a trait would also further distinguish them from their closest relatives: bantam polish, bantam hamburgs, bantam campines, and sebright bantams.

Thanks,
Dan

Dan,
I am selecting for willow legs and yellow skin also in a project I am working on so I know this is difficult, is there any way to tell which white skinned birds carry the gene for yellow?
thank you,
Ryan