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

[James Beller]

How old would y'all say these two are? I communicated with someone through Facebook about them and they told me they were 4 weeks.. I just thought they would be bigger at four week. I went ahead and bought them because I've been dieing to get polish.

A little over a month or so maybe two months.

 

[James Beller]

How would a polish chicks white crested come out with no black on the crest so far? i am very surprised.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

How would a polish chicks white crested come out with no black on the crest so far?  i am very surprised.

White crested black should not have a lot of black in their crest. Only a fringe of black above the eyes should show.

ETA ~ If your breeding to SOP.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

How old would y'all say these two are? I communicated with someone through Facebook about them and they told me they were 4 weeks.. I just thought they would be bigger at four week. I went ahead and bought them because I've been dieing to get polish.

I would say 3-4 weeks old. Here are my just over 3 week olds ~

 

[James Beller]

White crested black should not have a lot of black in their crest. Only a fringe of black above the eyes should show.



ETA ~ If your breeding to SOP.

I know that much but if the chick comes out with no black would it still get alot of black trying to breed alot of black out.

 

[YaYa27889]

How old would y'all say these two are? I communicated with someone through Facebook about them and they told me they were 4 weeks.. I just thought they would be bigger at four week. I went ahead and bought them because I've been dieing to get polish.

My little polish is now 6 weeks old. These look about right for a 4 week old. The feathers are coming in nicely. The top know will begin pluming out in another week or so. I am new to polish also, but as I have been watching mine I believe 4 weeks is right.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I know that much but if the chick comes out with no black would it still get alot of black trying to breed alot of black out.

I think it depends on how they feather out. You need to pick your best birds out with the least black in their crests and see what you get. My thinking is you can have the best parent birds in the world but not every chick that hatches from them will be as good. Many breeders only keep certain and often not many birds that they hatch as they don't meet SOP.

 

[James Beller]

I think it depends on how they feather out. You need to pick your best birds out with the least black in their crests and see what you get. My thinking is you can have the best parent birds in the world but not every chick that hatches from them will be as good. Many breeders only keep certain and often not many birds that they hatch as they don't meet SOP.

Well right now i only have the parent stock new hatches is the first time i get to see what comes out of them. Not many of my birds are show quality or meet the SOP but i know when my birds where very young they had coloration on the crest i mean a lot and they still do lol. I is almost a show potential but i think would be safe to say fair quality. The only chick that i had before not have large amounts of blue/ black on the crest would be the splash with no coloration but white on the crest.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I only have a couple of white crested blacks, I sold the rest of the hatch. Some do pluck some of the black feathers out to make a more tidy crest. That's not for me though, I don't breed for show or SOP.

I only have these now ~

If I were you I would keep breeding untill you get that really good and in the mean time look out for quality breeders.

 

[Sylvester017]

Ill look into the feed but do you think that separating them n ow and them putting them back together when tire out in the big run would have the same results because they've been separate for a little bit?

Sometimes problems can occur when they are introduced together again. But they sort out the pecking order. It happens with my adults when I have to quarantine one because of illness and when the hen is reintroduced she works at getting her same position back in the flock again. Timid ones seem to stay timid and bullies seem to stay bullies unless a more aggressive bully enters the dynamics. You'll instinctively soon figure how to handle your birds as you watch their interaction with the others in the flock. Sometimes there'll be a real sweetie in the group and sometimes you'll have to re-home a bully. That's what happened to us as we struggled the first year or two to get our flock down to all compatible flockmates. With younger birds you might want to use a roll of rabbit fencing to separate the pecked birds from the aggressive peckers where they see each other but can't hurt each other and that way when you want them all together again, remove the wire barrier and they won't notice too much that they were separated by a fence all that time. Just some things to consider. GL!