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

[PeepsInc]

Obviously I really like him, or he wouldn't have his own shelf in the house. BUT, he's the stupidest chicken I've ever seen. He cant even see where he is. When he was a couple of weeks old he had a vitamin deficiency that lead to crook neck. I nursed him back to health by feeding & medicating him threw an eye dropper for weeks. I even had to shave half his head so he could hold it upright. He had a ruff start to life, but he's doing great now. I've been searching for a girlfriend for him, so he's not so lonely.
This is Lurky

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

At this point in the game, it's too hard to try to start from scratch, fine a breed with them, get you some starter stock and just keep working with them, we need all the help we can get on them. They produce some excellent birds, even getting some awsome black crested golds from time to time on them. What you have to do is continually slect the best birds you get and cross them back to help weed out the impurities, though all will carry the bc white genes, it's best to only use the real ones. They never hatch out white with a black crest either by the way, a true on looks more like a splash chick and will only start to show black when it gets fully feathered. A wise ol polish breeder told me to try a good silver cock over the hens to try to improve the pattern,,says it works, but I havent tried it yet. I have some excellent ones here now, and hope with a few more years of select breeding, I can have them pured up. They arent weak a fraile like I have seen others say, they are just like any other polish, they just need som TLC to get the pattern right. Oh also, real one will have black legs and skin too, perhaps a throw back to the silkies in the original breeding. If they arent dark legged, they aint bc white polish. Even with all this, they are still one of my highest ebay selling sets, so once they get perfected to bredd true, I will be very happy, just a georgious bird, and needs all our help to perfect , if a lot of us would start working with them, it wouldnt take long. The large fowl counterpart has been around for about 10 more years and is way better established to correct breeding though still not perfected. My goal for now is to just keep selecting the best type and color each year and continuing the process. The hens are all awsome, the roos seem to be in the bigget need of help from what I have seen, You can really see the silver lace back ground in them still, and they are more black all the way down the neck still.
Hopefully we'll get them right before long
Aubrey

 

[Celtic Hill]

Does anyone have any Silver Polish they could share some pictures of?

 

[JordanFamily]

I have Two bantam Polish Roos, one is a chocolate cookoo and one is a WC chocolate. They are both frizzled... I also have a wc chocolate bantam hen, and a white frizzled bantam hen... Then I have the rest in the standard size: three WC blue hens, one WC black hen, and one buff laced hen... I'm going to try to get the chocolate color in the standard sized Polish in my breeding program and know it will take 3-5 generations to do... I have my first batch of bantam to stanard and a few just bantam sized in the incubator now... I would post pics but my Roosters are bald! My big red hens plucked their feathers off their heads.... Now I have moved them and have to wait for them to grow back... Does anyone get colored Polish eggs??? I thought they are all supose to be white but I get a cream or peach colored egg from some of my stanards??? Any pics of Polish egg colors? Here is my pic... The first and second egg are Polish and the last wo are from brown egg layers which are not Polish... Look at egg number 2... What color is that??????

 

[JordanFamily]

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Are you talking about blues or silver laced???

 

[Celtic Hill]

Silver Laced

 

[Woods_Woman]

Polish Chicks-Buff Laced and Tolbunt

 

[Woods_Woman]

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Have you looked thru this thread, I know I saw some silver laced. Check out page 1.

 

[Illia]

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Congrats!! Now when it grows up, you just KNOW you're going to beg other people for it to have a mate.

 

[monicas]

Our new WC blue babies.

and their parents

plus have some buff laced from gretchen in the incubator