My Crocus-Fowl Landrace project moving forward

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Well hello hello! For those of you who have been following my projects for a while know that I originally had a plan to make a sort of breed called the Vadakorian landrace. They were built for survival and efficiency on little human intervention. They were meant to sleep in trees and forage most of their food.

Well I decided it split my birds into two groups! One of these who are what I call Crocus-Fowl because the crest of my main breeding rooster looks like pieces of saffron. This thread is dedicated to the future generations of my beloved Crocus-Fowl project! I'm currently raising my F2 crosses. These are a mix of chicks bred by backcrossing my favorite F1 rooster to his mother and his aunt.

In this thread I'll show you the breed standard for hens and roosters, the egg color, and my hopes to start a breeding flock in the states and get a few other people interested in the breed so I can get it recognized! (I live in Europe Incase you're wondering)

All the bla bla bla out the way, heres my Crocus-Fowl Landrace!!!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I'm trying to get them to breed pure for dark pink high bloom eggs with nice speckling! I think these eggs are just gorgeous!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm trying to get them to breed pure for dark pink high bloom eggs with nice speckling! I think these eggs are just gorgeous! View attachment 4300792View attachment 4300794

I got a Pullet laying these.

 

[JedJackson]

Wow, gorgeous speckled eggs all around.

 

[Appalachickens]

Well hello hello! For those of you who have been following my projects for a while know that I originally had a plan to make a sort of breed called the Vadakorian landrace. They were built for survival and efficiency on little human intervention. They were meant to sleep in trees and forage most of their food.

Well I decided it split my birds into two groups! One of these who are what I call Crocus-Fowl because the crest of my main breeding rooster looks like pieces of saffron. This thread is dedicated to the future generations of my beloved Crocus-Fowl project! I'm currently raising my F2 crosses. These are a mix of chicks bred by backcrossing my favorite F1 rooster to his mother and his aunt.

In this thread I'll show you the breed standard for hens and roosters, the egg color, and my hopes to start a breeding flock in the states and get a few other people interested in the breed so I can get it recognized! (I live in Europe Incase you're wondering)

All the bla bla bla out the way, heres my Crocus-Fowl Landrace!!!
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Are the saffron-like feathers bright orange? I grow saffron crocus so I can harvest my own saffron every fall.

 

[chikenkid617]

Nice!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I got a Pullet laying these.View attachment 4300825

That's a gorgeous egg!!!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Are the saffron-like feathers bright orange? I grown saffron crocus so I can harvest my own saffron every fall.

Oh man that's so cool! The crest feathers on the orange roosters looks like saffron crocus hence the name

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

This is my newest cockerel I call Bingus Beans who has some really interesting tail patterns! I'm going to keep raising him until he gets his adult plumage and I'll see if he ends up being as spectacular as I hope. If I'm correct he has one copy of a Db gene (his great great great grandpa was pure for it) which is why he's "incomplete Columbian". Of course I could be wrong so take it that genetic info with a grain of salt. I love his tail patterns and his body has what looks like black hearts! I might use him in a few crossed with birds pure for mahogany so get red shouldered silver.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Also just a random lil thing some of y'all might find interesting, I'm going to adding this breed into the background of a fantasy book I'm making. They live around rural Celtic-type villages on small islands along a northern arcipelago! The Crocus-Fowl are an incredibly important part of their lives and their treated like prized possessions. Villages will show off the best of their fiercely protective yet people friendly roosters! A high quality Crocus-Fowl rooster is worth double if not triple his weight in gold and are seen as a status symbol between the farmer Vikings of the northern arcipelago