Polish Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crazy4eggsJulie]

Feel free to PM me with your egg prices. We're just looking to replace my daughter's pet, (the Sultan in my avatar

) so we really don't need many eggs. (Not to mention the fact that we don't have a budget for them.) I could trade black copper marans eggs though...or I also have wheaten Ameraucana eggs but they aren't show quality, shanks aren't slate but more of a willow color.

 

[snowhorse]

I am looking to order chicks come spring.

Looking to replace my favorite Gold Laced Polish Roo.... anybody have any luck with hatcheries and this color??

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

We got one gold and one silver from Ideal hatchery in TX. The golden hen has a couple white spots showing through on her crest. The silver roo is the flightiest bird we own which is pretty surprising since we have handled them regularly since day-olds.

 

[CrestedGirl]

Im so sad the other polish thread was closed. Well here is my Bearded Buff Laced Polish I took the the Abilene show last week

 

[paris_r]

i am wondering which comb is desired for show polish. I have 1 rooster with no comb and one with the full set of 'horns'-which is the desired type for apa showing?

 

[Illia]

There's already a Polish thread around, you'd get faster response there

My advice before even showing him though is to purchase an APA Standard of Perfection book, that way you won't need to ask questions, and get a full understanding.

But that aside, little to no comb is the most desired. You want the smallest but best looking V comb so that the crest itself is at its fullest and most round in shape. (however in non-bearded, the crest is more hair-like than round)

 

[TripTrapMtnHomestead]

How do I find the other thread? Might be getting 2 polish hens and want to ask some questions.
Thanks!

 

[paris_r]

oh I forgot to mention he was a WCB non bearded, he is our alpha. I wasn't sure if the others didn't express the comb because of some epigenetic effect. Right now I cannot buy that book (58$ is a lot to the unemployed) and the local library doesnt have it. I have looked up some other birds before but the text seemed ambigious, some terms seemed more qualitative then quantitative. On that note, then, the most desire sire I choose to mate with my hens is a male that doesnt show any comb, next would be one with a small comb that is symmetrical, then last is a male with a full set of long 'horns'? my best male for conformation is the one with the big comb (named 'Diablo' for obvious reasons), is the expression of the comb a dominant or recessive inheritance? How much can show on hens?-

--also how about hens and spurs? the main polish tread has been closed, so I resorted to this one. I am moving to TX in 2 weeks for grad school, and am deciding which chickens to take with me.

 

[Mahonri]

I'm hoping that some of you polish breeders will be putting up some hatching eggs around the 7th of March so they could be sent the 12th or 13th for a set date on the 17th for our Easter Hatch.

I'd love to have some frizzled Tolbunts, heck I'd even be happy with some white crested blues or some bearded buff laced...

I just need some polish eye candy in the coop.

 

[Silkie Sue]

This is my almost year old Standard WCB roo " Roosifer".




on the right side of his head his topknot over laps his eye. i have cut the feathers to relieve some of the weight . has anyone else had this?