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Gumbii, this is an European written standard of the cocopop variety I want to work with on my project, I will be using this as my guide line for my breeding program.
Bronze tailed Silver neck double laced:
Rooster: head, hackle and saddle: visible part light cream coloured to almost white, feather basis light brown. Shoulders and back shing orange red. Primaries matt bronze brown with a brown outer edge. Seconaries with red brown passing into cream outer vanes (wing triangle is two coloured redbrown/cream), inner vane matt bronze brown. Breast, wing coverts, wing band, abdomen and lower thighs light chestnut brown with a fine blackish lacing around the feather edge. On the inner side of this lace a distinct cream coloured inner lace. Main tail feathers very dark matt brown with almost invisible light chestnut brown to the basis. Sickles shining bronze brown, by-sickles slightly peppered and strong shining. Down: brownish grey.
Legs: yellow.
Severe faults: a blurred lacing on the rooster, a too broad creme coloured inner lace by which the breast is not evenly three coloured, strong yellow or patchy ornamental feathers, missing shine; hen: a very patchy ground colour, missing paled edging around the feathers.
Hen: head and hackle wheaten coloured with a silverish lacing and in lower hackle a matt brown shaft stripe. Primaries wheaten coloured with matt brown inner vane. Back, wing coverts, saddle and tail coverts wheaten coloured with a light feather edge. The inner part of these feathers have more or less distinct grey brown peppering. Breast, abdomen and lower thighs light wheaten coloured with a pale feather edge and pale feather quill. Tail grey brown, the upper main tail feathers in colour matching the tail coverts. Down: greyish.
Legs: yellow.
Severe faults: very patchy ground colour, missing pale lacing.
Currently I don't have any thing close to the above describtion of the hen but I have seen some from Gradys and Jerrys. Hopefully my flock will produce something close to it soon or I will have to get some from Jerry or Grady. I prefer to have a home grown cuz I feel life is meaningless without a challenge or two.
I agreed, I was thinking of taking close up pics of all my chicks to post in it every month as they grow.
A little off topic but could you tell me what kind of bedding they are on?
I use play sand in almost all of my cages, its easier to clean and inexpensive compare to shaving. I clean my cages every day with long handled mesh strainer, I wash and disinfect the sand with a bleach solution twice a yr to keep em fresh. Here are few pics of my cages;
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A little off topic but could you tell me what kind of bedding they are on?
I use play sand in almost all of my cages, its easier to clean and inexpensive compare to shaving. I clean my cages every day with long handled mesh strainer, I wash and disinfect the sand with a bleach solution twice a yr to keep em fresh. Here are few pics of my cages;
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You are very lucky! Those are the 2 that I wanted and also Da Vinci but they all got a little too pricey for me. Glad you got both girls..........enjoy them. They would have been my first Seramas and I was a little afraid to practice on them......LOL My bid on Da Vinci was a fraction of a second too late and the auction closed. I'm sure I'll get better at this. Juliette's birds are beautiful !!
I have one that looks a lot like Gwen. Mine is Priscilla, and she is one of my favorites