POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

[Silkie Sue]

She is a bearded buff laced Polish,,,, i'm gonna say bantam but it is hard to tell
i know large fowl hens are about 4 1/2 pounds
She is very pretty
Enjoy!!!!

 

[cmsdvm]

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I'll see what I can do.

 

[mycutekitties]

I love this thread!

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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She would be a bearded LF Buff Laced. YOu can easily tell the difference (or at least I can) in LF and bantam Polish by their body carriage. Large fowl seem to carry themselves more upright and stretched out than bantams.

 

[taprock]

Is there any one in Northern Michigan who has a Golden Laced Pullet for sale or willing to part with. We just lost one today. It was Betty my son's favorite. I know it's a little strange but he would carry her around and said she was his girl friend because she talked to him - she was a very vocal bird. I would like to find another for him.

 

[aShMaNv]

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She would be a bearded LF Buff Laced. YOu can easily tell the difference (or at least I can) in LF and bantam Polish by their body carriage. Large fowl seem to carry themselves more upright and stretched out than bantams.

Thanks. I dont know anything about the polish breed so I had no idea whether she was bantam or large fowl. Shes really not too big so the bantam variety must be pretty small lol.

 

[flower]

aShMaNv because you placed your little buff laced polish beside another bantam of I guess a simular age you can almost be sure that she is a bantam. Polish birds are tall but not heavy as a rule. I guess a lot of their nutrition goes into maintaining feather. The LF are pretty good layer of good size white eggs. I do not know much about the banties but I have a few eggs in the incubator right now. I think that you are pretty lucky to have you little polish hen.

Cochins are considered heavy fowl but again I do not know much about Cochin LF or Bantam but their shape is very different. They are rounder, shorter and have their feather feet and a lot of people use them to brood and raise chicks.

 

[aShMaNv]

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Thanks for your reply

Yes the cochin rooster the Polish hen is standing next to is the same age as her. I am somewhat confused because I am getting mixed answers to whether she is large fowl or a bantam.

 

[flower]

Well then she is LF come to think of it since like I said polish are not big birds. LF polish are smaller than most other LF. So I looked at the pictures again and in the second one I see what might be a Welsummer in the background. And if the bird in the background is a LF Welsummer that changes the perspective. It is had to tell. That buff cochin rooster bantam does look sort of large for a bantam. Ahh I was trying to help but it is aonly a guess. More pictures beside different breeds ? Anyway I still think you Polish Hen is Beautiful so there.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

I am so glad I can find out so much info here on the Polish. I have bred my SL roo to my GL hen. This is the results!

They both look to be bearded. These are my first ones from my own. I read a post here that it is a 50/50 split on SL with GL...is this true? Thank You~