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

[HerbGir1972]

Well since we've just found this thread, I'll timeline our White crested Black Polish male for you guys

We had a single chick that need a couple buddies, so we went to a local/not so local location to pick a few up
and this guy just had to come home with us because I was attempting to get a little interest in our Chicken Project
from my teenage daughter. Really only lasts as long as they are little and require less care...

anyways...
May 17, 2014

May 23, 2014

June 1, 2014

June 23, 2014

July 16, 2014 2 1/2 months

Aug 11, 2014
our first picking incident, I think it was unintentional he had some long spiky new feathering coming on.
He lets the hens pick & preen his gorgeous, locks. This photo shows that he is also getting new golden
neck feathering too. We Blue-Koted the spot and put him back the next day. Seemed unaffected by his
bald spot...LOL

We we're going to sell but I think now I'm going to get a pretty blue girlfriend, in Spring 2015

We'll see what a White Crested black & a Blue make in chicks

 

[polishmom1744]

I realize the color is a little hazy but think of the possibilities! I found this hen by chance on a local farm.
Her mother is a BCW but her father was a F2 Frizzle Cochin to Polish project. Notice her crest is lacking, but their are no foot feathers and her confirmation is true to type. She's also having a hard molt which is why she's in the hen coop and not already with my Roo!!! Gonna let her get feathered out good and by next spring I should be working frizzle into BCW!!!!

 

[PoultryQueen101]

For how hastily vent sexing is done in hatcheries it is considered dangerous to squeeze the smaller bantams for vent sexing.  The hatcheries would probably lose half their bantam chicks at the same speed and pressure as LF chick vent sexing!  This is why auto-sexing breeds are becoming more popular so breeders don't have to vent sex or wait for a chick to sprout wattles before they can ID the sex.  Chicks identifiable at day-old are BRs, Doms, Rhodebars, Cream Legbars, (just about all the 'bars i.e. Welbars, Wybars, Goldbars, etc) Welsummers, Bielefelders, Sexlinks, and many others.

I was talking about wing sexing

I heard if covert are thin primary thick female
if slightly shorter top row female .
Primarys and secondarys equal male
If longer top row male
If feather shafts same thinkness males .
These are describing the wing feathers one day olds however I have tried this on my polish and have gotten mixed results. No sure they are the best breed to do this with however there are tons of pics on internet which show clearly the difference mine weren't that obvious . A lot of questionables I find crest sexing easier but again I've gotten many of thoose off too but I think frizzles complicate things and a lot of my polish are frizzles

yeah it works on standard chicks, but for some reason, it doesnt work on polish or bantams. We do almost the exact same thing, we sex our polish by crest, and since banties grow fast, its easy to tell very early. But we try it on ameraucanas when we hatch them

Its so very weird, sometimes our ameraucana roo breeds our silkies, and almost every time they hatch, they are white with pink feet and a single black dot behind their head. We have never grown one out long enough to see if its a sexlink though... they are very pretty though and range in colors.

 

[PoultryQueen101]

Well since we've just found this thread, I'll timeline our White crested Black Polish male for you guys

We had a single chick that need a couple buddies, so we went to a local/not so local location to pick a few up
and this guy just had to come home with us because I was attempting to get a little interest in our Chicken Project
from my teenage daughter. Really only lasts as long as they are little and require less care...

anyways...
May 17, 2014

May 23, 2014

June 1, 2014

June 23, 2014

July 16, 2014 2 1/2 months

Aug 11, 2014
our first picking incident, I think it was unintentional he had some long spiky new feathering coming on.
He lets the hens pick & preen his gorgeous, locks. This photo shows that he is also getting new golden
neck feathering too. We Blue-Koted the spot and put him back the next day. Seemed unaffected by his
bald spot...LOL

We we're going to sell but I think now I'm going to get a pretty blue girlfriend, in Spring 2015

We'll see what a White Crested black & a Blue make in chicks

I wouldnt try to breed for quality, because pure wcb polsih dont have copper in their color. Also, he has too much black in his crest for showing. The first pic didnt even look like a wcb, as ours usually have more white around the face.
maybe its a wc black copper

 

[HerbGir1972]

We don't plan to show chickens, I've not got that kind of time...

WHen I went to choose buddies for our chick, we tried to pick thru the week olds
because we wanted them to all be approx. the same age/size.

We just saw these golden feathers when we had to give him a good handling
he's kinda skitty so we don't get to pick up every time we go into the coop.

But he is what he is, I'm curious to see how he looks in the end, & he will have Several colors of hens
Blue, Whit,e Laced, maybe even Silkie. Maybe I can at least introduce this breed to some of the folks around here.
They see him and act like it's a freaky Alien Chicken...LOL

We have Backyard Chickens, Until I can get a couple new pens built,
They'll be a little mixed, but that's OK

 

[Sylvester017]

I was talking about wing sexing

Now that's an elusive fuzzy art - no pun. You gotta really know your genetics for that to work and it's still difficult. I think Leghorns are the best LF to wing sex - my folks had Babcock Leghorns on the farm. Can't say anything about bantams though.

 

[yakss]

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[HerbGir1972]

Can't seem to find any wc black copper polish photos anywhere

 

[polishmom1744]

Can't seem to find any wc black copper polish photos anywhere

He looks to have a chocolate gene. WC Chocolate perhaps
check out this site:
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Polish/BRKPolish.html

 

[Coyote Night]

Must share! We have been working with a close friend to bring the bantam white crested chocolate back to Coyote Night Acres and while we had a handful of birds we were retaining every eggs we got and it was a slow process to hopefully be able to offer them next year. So the other day she tells me she is cutting back on her birds and is selling the entire flock of WC chocolate and khaki...... I got first dibs and brought the entire flock home. So Just a little share, the frizzled Khaki roo is not pictured or our smooth khaki roo and some of the hens both frizzle and smooth. We are excited and because we already have so many eggs in our incubator from the flock already I will be offering hatching eggs very soon once they settle in.