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

[becky3086]

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I have hatched from a lot of different sources to get the ones that I have. Polish eggs tend not to ship well, the air sacs tend to break easier. Right now, mine aren't laying at all. I just have the last of the mixed Polish eggs in the incubator still hatching. I will be happy to let you know when I do have eggs though.

 

[becky3086]

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Actually no. The tophat is not right and she is a purebred BC White Polish. You can ask Boggy Bottom Bantams because he has the same breed. Have a nice day!

Mine looks alot like that. Actually she could be a twin thats how much they look alike, and I had more than one person tell me she was a German Spitzhauben. The crest looks smaller on these speckled ones like yours and mine than Polish. They don't look like the same breed to me even.

I think that color in Polish just still needs a lot of work. I have seen some very nice black crested whites but I doubt that is what the hatcheries are selling.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I've seen some hatcheries selling them in large fowl, but never in bantams. It's hard for me to believe they are very good though as the color has only been around for a few short years in standard, and only a hand full in bantam.
And yes, they need a tremendous amount of work done to them. I have yet to see one that will breed true to the color. They were made buy a cross of silver to lakes or spitz. Cant remember which, there's a full article on the Polish Breeder's Club site about them.
They are gorgeous and I love our bantam ones, but yep, tons of work still needed to pure up the color...

 

[becky3086]

I think it must be fairly easy to get that color. I have several of my mixed Polish(mixed with a non crested bird) that have the black head with white. Mine seem to be mostly the hens though, I do have one roo that color. Here is a very young picture of them, they are laying now.

I need to get some new pictures but the constant RAIN and MUD deter me from going in the pens and sitting down waiting for them to calm down so I can get a picture. I imagine keeping that color is a lot harder. Right now I am not trying to get that color, these birds hopefully will have a purpose once I get more pens but right now I am just collecting what few eggs they give and because I am an idiot, I hatch them all, lol. Just hatched one from these birds today, vaulted skull and reddish down. I can't help it, I love them all. I may have a pen of EE Polish-all different colors.

 

[Vcomb]

just wondering do you know what the noncrested breed was that produced those chicks?


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[becky3086]

There lies the problem. I had only two hens in the pen, a RIR hen and a splash hen. There were several breeds of roosters but I thought only the splash Polish roosters were mature enough when I hatched the eggs but apparently some of the others got in on the act in my later hatchings. There were 3 splash roosters, a red cochin rooster, a salmon favorelle that had to be mixed because he only had 4 toes and didn't look just right, a buff orpington that didn't look like an orpington to me..I think I have pictures of two of them...

Tadkerson mentioned in a pm to me when I was asking about something else that the splash may be blue with dominant white or let me quote this part:

There is another possibility: when a bird is silver, dark brown and columbian restricted this will produce a splash looking bird. All of the genes are found in polish.

At the time, we were trying to figure out why so many of them had black tails.

Anyway, I guess that isn't much help.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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Just went back and checked, the original True black crested whites were a cross of the a Lakenvelder to w.c. blacks, then were taken back to a crevacouer. And there was also some silkie mix added at one point. This comes from the article on the Polish site about the bc whites. There's a full write up on them there.
The ones above do look the part, but do have a tiny crest, a lot like a crevie would have.
Here's a pic of mine again, our of Jim Parkers lines in bantam

You can some of the differences there, and yes, they are a pain in the butt to breed properly at the moment, due to all the lines used to create them, and also yes, the males are the hardest to get in that color, going to take a lot of work to perfect

 

[becky3086]

Here is my newest baby. He is mixed Polish x mixed Polish. Probably Satan is the father since he is head roo in the pen.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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[Mountain Sunshine]

Here is my polish chicken. His/her name is Ralph. We love this chicken, he is the friendliest thing. We are not sure if it is a pullet or cockerel.