Post Phoenix Pics Please

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha,
he's looking good.

Will have more eggs any time, hate something got them...HOT WIRE!!! That stops them.

Definately dont have any spare girls right now. Have about 50 silver chicks in the brooder, depending on how many make the winter brooding, I may have some come spring

 

[Soli]

Here's some photos of new chicks from Amanda's white rooster shown earlier in this thread and my BBR phoenix. They sure are colorful - my significant other says they are "Patriot Chickens" being shades of red, white, and blue.

I made a new blog mostly so that I can keep myself organized when creating a photo journal of the progress I make in breeding. I keep a written breeding journal, but the photos will allow me to compare generations against each other at certain development stages. Right now I'm thinking one month, four months, six months, one year for all chicks and then will need to go further for the males I keep to monitor tail/feather development. It's at http://longtailfowl.blogspot.com and there are many more photos there.

Blue silver cockerel hatched Nov 7th

Red-blue cockerel hatched Nov 10th

Red-blue pullet hatched Nov 10th

Leg color is a real toss up. The rooster is white, the BBR hens are slate and green. Most of the chicks were born with whitish yellow legs and now they're looking greenish yellow. Some of these I'll breed back to Phoenix to get proper leg color, some I'll breed onward towards feather quantity/length/softness without thinking about leg color as a priority quite yet.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

looking good soli!!

 

[onagadori]

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Might hang on to some of those green legged ones.. Onagadori have green legs, not slate..

In case you are breeding for nonmolting onag types..

Note on the "patriot" thing.. My dad raises a semi longtail bird that is rec. white with blue leggs and red faced that lay blue eggs, called "texas and American Patriots".. lol. My black roo was a foundation for the brood stock..

 

[onagadori]

SOLI, NOTE ON SECOND COCKEREL.. RED BREAST. BLUE TAILED RED (AKA RED SHOJO)

THESE SHOULD BE AMAZING AND PERFECT TO THE ONAG TYPE.. assuming they feather out like thier dad. You may need to breed him back to his daughters, depending on if your hens are nonmolters or not..

 

[Soli]

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I had figured on breeding the best pullets back to their dad for at least the first generation, and hopefully next year or the year after bring in another good outside male (unless I get a good cockerel out of the eggs from your hens when they first arrived- I got about 6 eggs from them and they are incubating now and developing nicely). Next fall or winter I'll select the best cockerels and test them in tomebako.

I meant to ask you if any of these were ginger - is that what the shojo is? I'm not experienced enough to tell that in chicks yet, although I can see the difference in fully feathered adults.

 

[Toni-Marie]

I dont see a ginger? am I missing something....sorry....I see a blue silver or blue gold...Its to young to say what it is for sure. At least the birds in the pic that I see. Young birds at that age often have other color in the breast exsp a blue red or blue gold or blue silver....I'm just calling what I see there...A pretty bird no matter what color it turns out to be...cant wait on update pic to prove what it is...Thats what I like about breeding. Mandy;what is the white roo underneath the white? TM

 

[onagadori]

shojo is a red ginger.. But it needs to be a nice orange color like an orangatan (spelling).. These are going to be half bb red because of your hens, but they will have red feathers on the breast instead of black. And if they have a small amount of black, it will molt out by adulthood.. Breed ginger red hens to ginger red roos to clean up the color.. This one will be blue tailed.. Guessing that roo is only a blue not a splash, because some of the offspring were bb red.. Should get some nice red ginger hens and just breed them back to a ginger roo (shojo) to clean your color up.. Breeding to silver hens will get you some nice silver gingers..

 

[onagadori]

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Most of my birds that have red breast when they are cockerels only turn redder as they age.. He is blue silver I am guessing.. Blue hen to white roo with silver base.. My crosses have gone completely back to type and my blues all stem from yokohama and carry the ginger gene.. but like you said, time will tell. He would only be half since the mother was a bb red.. I will post a pic in a little while of a white chick that is out of my black rooster.. It came out peacombed and looks identical to a white yokohama. But is genetically blue..

 

[Soli]

The BBR chick in the photos on the website isn't from your rooster, Amanda - it's a straight Phoenix from the BBR set I had. I hatched a few straight Phoenix out with this set of chicks. Every single chick from your rooster is blue, so he's splash for sure.