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Posting those pics is such a tease.. You know I haven't had time to build the pens yet but am headed that way shortly.. You have done so well with those birds, I look forward to getting the Silver Blue and Birchen going strong in both Cochin and wyandotte wich will be relatively easy given what there is to work with there, of course they will also through some Columbian and Blue Columbian in both as well. This will be fun and fairly easy.Hey DGibson!
Carl said I should show you these photos for your viewing pleasure...pullet offspring from Carl's line of CW that are now in my flock. Here is Beau with the 3 CW hens and the 2 pullets. The Blue hen is a hatchery girl that is the mom of the Blue CW line I'm working on.
Here is the special bird nice lacing and yellow legs
Her back and the tips on her wings
This last picture was a little fuzzy, but you get the idea of her nice form.
And just for everyone else...here is the F1 example of the Blue CW that is now 4 months old. She is developing nicely and has several younger sisters still in the floor pen. So I'm pretty excited about these.
And my mentor Carl said this would be the best project roo for the F1 pen for the Cochin Wyandotte cross I'm working on. Will cross him back on his sisters to see what varieties we get...Birchen, CW, Silver Blue, and both in clean leg and feather leg....should be some interesting developments. If I'm lucky, Carl will take on the genetics since I'm really fuzzy there. I have knowledge on Lovebirds, but their color specs are different from poultry.
The blue girl on the right is a definite pen mate Cochin Wyandotte cross. The black Cochin Wyandotte with the Birchen necks may also go in that pen
Already planning ahead. Roger said ."You will have to have a pen for each variety to keep the eggs separate." I think he is won over! Little does he know there are already 7 separate enclosures available.. and he helped build them..... mawahahahahaaaaaa