Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[U_Stormcrow]

Three of the mostly interchangeable red roosters (all ages approx 10-15 months), a black hen for eventual culling, a two year old dark brahma hen I am not allowed to cull ("Chuck", who has her own internet following on my FB page), a pair of pekins (both hens, I believe), and a pair of two year old golden comets, with signs of overmating...

 

[MysteryChicken]

This tiny, too dark hen with patterning was an early hope in the project last year. Somehow, she weighs 4.7# At this point, she's probably the best of my near misses.

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She's a pretty, melanized Duckwing.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

You want Red Wheaten, to Red Columbian females?

I want, eventually, to understand the language (though I've made no study of it, and have no energy to make the study at the moment). I can identify the 8 colors in a basic box of crayons, plus "grey", "light [X]", and "dark [x]", and that's the extent of my discernement in the language of color.

"light orange please, with a black pencilling" would be really nice.

NOT "buff brahma", which are yellow birds with a black lace necklace.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I want, eventually, to understand the language (though I've made no study of it, and have no energy to make the study at the moment). I can identify the 8 colors in a basic box of crayons, plus "grey", "light [X]", and "dark [x]", and that's the extent of my discernement in the language of color.

"light orange please, with a black pencilling" would be really nice.

NOT "buff brahma", which are yellow birds with a black lace necklace.

What about gold laced? Is that similar to what you want? I'm with ya in terms of color knowledge

 

[Molpet]

Following this struggle for color, makes me glad I just go for weight.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I took one of Murray McMurray's buff brahma photos and "corrected it" a bit with a paint program to get closer to my end goal. Less the feathered feet, plus an actual comb suited for my temperatures.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I took one of Murray McMurray's buff brahma photos and "corrected it" a bit with a paint program to get closer to my end goal. Less the feathered feet, plus an actual comb suited for my temperatures.

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Incomplete Columbian, is the term for what you're wanting.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

So tell me true, @MysteryChicken are any of today's pictured birds advancing that goal, or am I currently keeping a bunch of evolutionary dead ends?

 

[MysteryChicken]

So tell me true, @MysteryChicken are any of today's pictured birds advancing that goal, or am I currently keeping a bunch of evolutionary dead ends?

You could get get what you want by breeding your red Columbian hen, with a rooster like Ugly, just breed the poor quality partridge based birds, to get that coloration. Of course you'll end up getting some silvers out of the mix, because the rooster is Gold/Silver split though.

The Incomplete Columbian patterns vary.

She's Buff, not red though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I no longer have this girl. She was some proof I have partridge based Orpingtons.

She's an incomplete Columbian also. Name was Topaz.