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I am having problems veiwing the pictures on photobucket.
I am able to click on the first photo, but then it asks me to log in and won't let me move on to the other photos.
If you scroll over your own photos and click on the image link, you will be able to copy and paste the image link for each picture on byc.
It is easy and QUICK. Then folks can look at the bird here without going offsite to photobucket.
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I guess I should chime in here since it was my original response that got this thing going....
Goodmorning Acechix,
I am not sure that I am on any team
Buyer or Seller
I am just here to help folks understand what their birds still need to meet SOP.
I applaud you and your efforts to work with the BLUE and Black Birchen
Like Gilavina posted before, this variety is rare and will need work no matter who the breeder is.
No harm was meant by my previous comments. As a matter of record, my comments were very sedate and respectful . . . Ask for more photos, get close ups or both sides of the comb, and he looks narrow in the photo.
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I am having problems veiwing the pictures on photobucket.
I am able to click on the first photo, but then it asks me to log in and won't let me move on to the other photos.
If you scroll over your own photos and click on the image link, you will be able to copy and paste the image link for each picture on byc.
It is easy and QUICK. Then folks can look at the bird here without going offsite to photobucket.
Thank you for posting more photos. And I know you are going to shoot me for asking but do you have any closer up shots of the girls? Pretty please?
I would not use this rooster if you are looking to breed toward standard. He is very overly red and the lighter shafting in the breast feathers may indicate Wheaten recessive characteristics and influences and some folks do not wish for this in their breeding program. Also, did you mention that he has wry tail....I definitely would not use him if he has wry tail, it will pass on to his offspring. Also he has feather stubs in between his toes which is a fault and will also pass along to offspring. This is an excellent photo for the SOP thread.. you know Math Ace is going to be hot in this one.
Anyway if you are not concerned with standards or breeding to them and are just breeding for those lovely dark eggs then use him or use him for making olive eggers.
Back to the issue of spurs....I managed to get a pic of my Cuckoo hen yesterday. I know, it would have been a better pic if someone would have been holding the bird, but good neighbors are hard to find in my neck o' the woods....
Notice how these spurs have been "sharpened" on the point. Last week they were just rounded, but it looks like the hen has intentionally sharpened them...or do they kinda' disintegrate over time?
I have never noticed this "sharpened" effect on any Roos...
(it's hard to see, but the Black Copper hen in the pic is getting spurs too...)
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I guess I should chime in here since it was my original response that got this thing going....
Goodmorning Acechix,
I am not sure that I am on any team
Buyer or Seller
I am just here to help folks understand what their birds still need to meet SOP.
I applaud you and your efforts to work with the BLUE and Black Birchen
Like Gilavina posted before, this variety is rare and will need work no matter who the breeder is.
No harm was meant by my previous comments. As a matter of record, my comments were very sedate and respectful . . . Ask for more photos, get close ups or both sides of the comb, and he looks narrow in the photo.
Agreed they are pretty rare and their is tons and tons to learn about them, just like we are still learning with the birds we have regardless of color variety. I think we will all be learning right along next to each other for long time to come with this beautiful breed of chickens and I look forward to learning with everyone.
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not going to shoot you lol. dont have any close shots of the girls as they run when the camrea tries to focus on them lol but will try and get some in the days to come when i get the time to
. i just noticed the feathers in between his toes. these are supposed to be from the dav/jeane lines
i know he has soooo much red that he's almost solid red with black here and there and yes he has a croocked tail to. i did hatch 3 of the hens eggs BUT there were some dominques in there with the hens so these could be mutts, so far they look pure though, only time will tell. really just want the dark eggs but i also like good quilty stock as well in case someone sees them and wants a few chicks (dont want to give bad stock if they breed for the standared but as always buyer would be told the quilty of chickens they are in this case pet/eggs only)
Thank you for posting more photos. And I know you are going to shoot me for asking but do you have any closer up shots of the girls? Pretty please?
I would not use this rooster if you are looking to breed toward standard. He is very overly red and the lighter shafting in the breast feathers may indicate Wheaten recessive characteristics and influences and some folks do not wish for this in their breeding program. Also, did you mention that he has wry tail....I definitely would not use him if he has wry tail, it will pass on to his offspring. Also he has feather stubs in between his toes which is a fault and will also pass along to offspring. This is an excellent photo for the SOP thread.. you know Math Ace is going to be hot in this one.
Anyway if you are not concerned with standards or breeding to them and are just breeding for those lovely dark eggs then use him or use him for making olive eggers.
I think I would like to use photos of him for the stubs between the toes and the wry tail....
I am with PINK on this guy.... This guy is too far away from the standard to start with him.
Although, there are no perfect birds out there... this guy just has too many DQ issues to use him in a serious breeding program. DQ - Wry Tail, DQ - color on wing bow, Fault - feather shafting, Fault - stubs between toes, and then there is just the amount of excessive color... Sorry to give you the news, I feel your pain!
Good news is folks always have EXTRA BCM cockerels to find homes for. Seriously, I would find someone in your area that is raising BCM. When they start doing their hatching in the Spring, there is always extra cockerels. I don't normally sell my cockerel culls until they are 12- 25 weeks old. At that point you can start seeing how long the back is going to be, if there are feather stubs in between the toes, if there is color on the chest ( where it doesn't belong), what the comb is looking like, etc. Believe it or not, on a 12 week old cockerel, if you know what you are looking for you can do a really good job of selecting a potential candidate. If I was you, I would start finding out who is hatching marans and wait until they start selling off the extra cockerels. Then PICK yours carefully.
You will get further along faster by selecting a new cockerel carefully than trying to fix all the faults your current guy is going to pass on to the next generation.
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