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

[paramedic07]

This is Buckwheat, my blue polish rooster that gets along with Hank, my ameraucana / ee rooster. He get totaly c*ck blocked alot. Couldnt help the censored pun.

 

[dakotarider]

I am searching for some black crested white polish. Any ideas?

 

[teresa-78]

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Illia you are fantastic thankyou sooooo much

 

[Bird Collector]

I have to join in and show off my new Birthday present. Wilma. My friend who got me into chickens recently got her order from a hatchery and gave me the pick of the lot. So Wilma had a new home. Because she is single and small I am keeping her in the house for a couple more weeks until I think she is big enough to join the other girls. I have 4 standard chickens and 14 bantams. A real nice mix of crazy. We go out daily in the sun and grass and she mingles around the others under my protection. She defiently has bonded with me.

 

[goatsoap]

I just bought some black crested white standard polish eggs from Ebay, hopefully. Was told to expect black crested reds, whites, etc. He has running auctions. You have to look at the pictures with the ads, sometimes the pictures are of other colors, but there are pictures within the ad. There are also bantam BC whites listed there, but I am trying to stick with standards.

BTW - the auction was for 10 eggs. He sent me 12, due to hatch on the 18th. Candled this weekend, and all are chicks. So excited to see what comes out of the eggs.

So if you are looking for them, might try there.

 

[goatsoap]

This is PH, my silver laced rooster. When I brought him home last summer, DH thought he was the funniest thing he had ever seen and affectionately named him Pecker Head. Unfortunately the name stuck, so in public his name is PH. We recently put him in the coop with the other polish b/c I cannot find him a silver laced girl, but until that time he free ranged in a goat pasture with five other roosters and six hens, all different breeds. He is about the prettiest chicken I have ever seen. He is in with WC blue, spash and buff hens. The chicks are coming out very cool looking.

 

[goatsoap]

Since there are very knowledgeable folks about there about polish genetics - question: Silver laced roo (above) is in with one WC blue, one splash and one buff laced hen. The chicks are so neat looking but trying to figure out what they will be when they grow up. Have one buff (obvious), several solid blues and 5-6 that are blue or black with a Cruella DeVille thing going on in thier crests - white spots, white streaks, etc. No white crests, just little marks. Was hoping for some silver laced. I bought my polish hens from a guy last summer. Have no idea what the family background is, just that he raised them. The SL roo was given to me by a friend last year, no idea about his lineage either. Will they turn as they get older?

thanks

 

[eastercreek]

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Hey easterchick....I am also breeding a silver laced roo with a golden laced. I also breed and raise TN Walkers...yes...chicken genetics are MUCH more confusing then horse genetics.

I will let you know what I end up with my breeding if you will tell me.

There are some very nice people here who have been great at teaching me...so you will find your answer I am sure.

Good luck!!!

This color genetics as it applies to sex link is awesome.....we horse folk wonder if we are going to get a chestnut or a bay and couldnt even begin to determine the sex of a foal by parentage color You can even breed two leopard apps and get a solid foal! They have isolated one pattern that is guaranteed to produce color, though...and it is what is called a few spot leopard....but other than that, it is a guessing game except for the dominant base colors. In Paint horses they can determine if they are homozygous for a patterned baby...but not with appaloosas. Palomino genetics are interesting as well.

Back to chickens...please tell me if I have this down...if I have a GL roo and a SL female, I will get sex linked chicks that I can distinguish at hatch...females will be true GL, but males will be SL but have a tinge of silver/black mixed with some yellow as they age? If I have a SL roo and a GL hen I will get SL females distinguishable at hatch? And the roos will be ???.

 

[DANNY]

Here are some pictures of my first babies of the year.

This one is a little unusual. I know it's chocolate but doesn't have the white crest.

 

[seminolewind]

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I have 2 hens that look like that splash one.