Polish Experts...... What do I breed my Tolbunt roo with ???

[chickenzoo]

Yeah, I wondered how he got a funny comb. I got him from another nice BYCer, and they paid good money for theirs, but he ended up with a leghorns come..... LOL.... I still love him- he's unique.

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

Gosh, that is one funky comb.

That's a whole lotta comb he has to carry on his head. But he sure is pretty.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Holy cow that is a crazy bird! He looks like someone threw my sussex roo into a tornado!
Nice!

 

[Riocotesei]

Chickenzoo, this is a little off topic, but your chicken pens look awesome. Do you have any pictures of the whole set up? Looks like great breeding pens, and the birds keep so clean! Do they have a enclosed area to lay in?

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Have you seen the frizzled tollbunt polish?

 

[chickenzoo]

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Thanks, it is a "Chicken Barn" that is 20 ft wide with a 5 foot walk through the center, and 24 foot long..... I really need 3 or 4 of them, LOL. Each pen is 2 ft x 7 foot, and I have 12 on each side. It has a metal roof, and in winter we enclose the whole barn. They have perches and such,..... still working on it. It was really suppose to be only for my bantams....... but my collection grew. When we get more property I'd like to make ones with outside runs for them and house all my birds...... dreams..... I'll try and get pics

 

[Riocotesei]

That sounds really cool!
We just built a coop this summer, it's 12' wide and 24' long.
We aready need another chicken coop!
I've been looking for good ideas and yours looks very effective.

 

[Pathfinders]

A friend of mine here in KY has the most GORGEOUS Tolbunt Polish I've ever seen (among other things), see her pics here:

http://www.polishbreedersclub.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=5101984

 

[tadkerson]

Laura,

Your friend seems to have some true pied plumage. You see the pied plumage in juvenile plumage with mottled birds but not in adults. You can see the gold lacing on the your friends birds. They ae definitely different than other tolbunt I have seen.

To anybody willing to read my contribution,

The polish male also looks to be completely recessive for single comb. I have heterozygous duplex comb birds and the male's combs look different than the comb on your bird. Duplex comb is incompletely dominant like the pea comb. The males get a patch of spikes at the posterior end of the comb and then the comb goes forward to the beak. The forward part of the comb looks like a modified single comb.

I have always liked the look of the tolbunt.

Krys,

Polish tolbunt look like an unorganized pattern. I am thinking they are heterozygous for more than one gene pair.


Have you produced tolbunt or do you know of any one that has produced tobunt by the following:

Pied bird(like in exchequer) X gold laced or spangled = F1

Backcross F1 X pied bird = BC1 (? tolbunt) + hybrids

BC1 x BC1= BC2 ( tolbunt ) + others


Do you know if the tolbunt are produced in the first back cross generation (BC1) or in the BC2 generation?

I was thinking the tolbunt was a gold, mottled (pied), columbian ( Co/Co) or dark brown (Db/Db) and melanized birchen. The melanization could be due to different combinations of Pg and Ml. I am sure at least one Pg has to be in the mix because the birds do not have much black in the hackles.

I think the tolbunt variety would look great on a gold spangled back ground.

I may have to get me a male speckled sussex and a gold spangled female and see what I can produce. One more project.


Tim

 

[chickenzoo]

I wondered what I'd get if I mixed my Houdan roo with a GL or BL hen...... ?