Pheonix Thread

[flowerfaeiry]

And finally, I'm really excited about this pullet. Her mother was an extreme feathered silver ginger and her dad a splash (The same cross, except on her you can really see the influence of the extreme feathering!)
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Also forgot to say, all of these birds are 4 1/2-5 months old

All stunning birds!!!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Just curious because my mother seemed to for the first time realize I have a frizzle hen and a male Pheonix.

Would a frizzle Pheonix be even possible? Or would that screw up their tails? Suppose I should ask the same about silkied phoenixes

 

[Michael99]

All stunning birds!!!

Thank you!

Just curious because my mother seemed to for the first time realize I have a frizzle hen and a male Pheonix.

Would a frizzle Pheonix be even possible? Or would that screw up their tails? Suppose I should ask the same about silkied phoenixes

I remember reading something about a silkied Phoenix on the old Longtails forum here on BYC, but I don't think anyone has ever gotten very far with it if they've tried. But I can't imagine it going well because silkied and frizzle feathers are very brittle and not very strong, so I think the tail would probably get shredded.

 

[Michael99]

So I'm really excited!! I've been talking to Cat Stasevich (she has a line of extreme feathered longtails that she breeds) and she was giving me some pointers on selecting which cockerels look the most promising when it comes to potentially being non-molting and therefore which ones are worth testing. Anyways, she said one of my cockerels from the extreme feathered silver gingers (which are partially descended from David Roger's line of non molters) looked promising!!! I'm going to post some pictures below, and in the coming months he'll likely be put in a tomebaku I'm going to build as his tail is already beginning to drag on the ground at a little under 5 months old! Anyways, in case anyone is interested here he is -

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Nice tails

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Color questions here because I had something other than my normal chipmunks hatch out of some nests I had going.

Any clues what this color would be? This chick had a stroke we think so we couldn't keep it bit I'm too curious now. It was white fluff with a reddish stripe down the back and a grey/blue spot on his head.

Also are there lethal white genes? This is the third time I've had a pure yellow baby hatch and I'm worried this will be the third time I lose said baby. They're always healthy for a few days and then just drop. Any normal siblings they have are just fine though.

 

[Michael99]

Color questions here because I had something other than my normal chipmunks hatch out of some nests I had going.

Any clues what this color would be? This chick had a stroke we think so we couldn't keep it bit I'm too curious now. It was white fluff with a reddish stripe down the back and a grey/blue spot on his head.
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Also are there lethal white genes? This is the third time I've had a pure yellow baby hatch and I'm worried this will be the third time I lose said baby. They're always healthy for a few days and then just drop. Any normal siblings they have are just fine though.
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I've never heard of a lethal white gene, but then again I don't breed or have any white birds. Maybe they're just more fragile? Honestly not sure.

And to me the first chick looks maybe like it could be red pyle, or splash red duckwing but you'd have to either have dominant white in your flock for the first or blue for the second. The second picture though looks like a recessive white.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've never heard of a lethal white gene, but then again I don't breed or have any white birds. Maybe they're just more fragile? Honestly not sure.

And to me the first chick looks maybe like it could be red pyle, or splash red duckwing but you'd have to either have dominant white in your flock for the first or blue for the second. The second picture though looks like a recessive white.

I have only golden Duckwings (or red breasted blacks, no clue the differences between them) in my flock, i have no clue where these colors came from.

We had to put the stripes one down, we think he had a stroke and then last night any progress he'd made had disappeared so we think it had another stroke.

The white looking one is a big one. Almost 2x as big as the other chicks I have that are older by a day or two.

 

[Michael99]

I have only golden Duckwings (or red breasted blacks, no clue the differences between them) in my flock, i have no clue where these colors came from.

We had to put the stripes one down, we think he had a stroke and then last night any progress he'd made had disappeared so we think it had another stroke.

The white looking one is a big one. Almost 2x as big as the other chicks I have that are older by a day or two.

Maybe it's a hybrid, if you have other breeds in the same pen with the Phoenix, it is possible that a different hen laid an egg that was sat on and hatched by a Phoenix. Or maybe there's a rooster somewhere that's hopping the fence. This would explain the larger size and the different colors.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Maybe it's a hybrid, if you have other breeds in the same pen with the Phoenix, it is possible that a different hen laid an egg that was sat on and hatched by a Phoenix. Or maybe there's a rooster somewhere that's hopping the fence. This would explain the larger size and the different colors.

Not possible. My pheonixes are the only ones not enclosed.

On the other hand, I did learn that the recessive white gene is Lethal. Chicks with the recessive white gene are 50% likely to pass on