Post Phoenix Pics Please

[onagadori]

Comb is usually much easier to fix than color, as long as you still have the correct comb type in the breed to work with. If you have to cross outside the breed to bring in the new (correct) comb type then obviously that is very tough to fix. Of course this depends upon if you are fixing and existing comb type or if you have the wrong come type all together and even then it depends upon whether the correct comb is dominant or recessive etc.

Well, in this case it is recessive, of course, I don't know if it matters too much until you finish getting them there. I just really like black birds, and the shubert blacks are basically a melanized red duckwing from what I experience. They are definitely not E based. So I figured, might as well make a black longtail that isn't a sumatra.. lol

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep I'm thinking bantams, pretty sure I saw all 4 in it, though I may be wrong ( I dont own a copy, just trying to off memory). I'm like Amanda I dont show, but you sure see a lot of the bb's there. Think I did see a petition going around on the APA Standard to get BB's in it so they may well not be in the APA for the big birds. Crazy though seeing how bb red is about the most common color in them. Let me know what you find on the bantams. Been a few since I looked at a copy, but near certain all 4 are in it.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Amanda, heres some old pics just for now. This is one of the flytie x phoenix roos I got from Toni



Here's one of the ohiki crosses



then here's some of the cuckoo and birchen girls I have been breeding too.






well, couldnt find the one of the plain cuckoo girls, it's in here some where.
will be taking all new pics soon. But that's the foundation birds at least for the project. I'll try to get some of this years hatches on as soon as I get time to take them.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Then here's a pic of the black bantams I bred down. Plan to add them in the mix next just for some more blood.

 

[dvang3]

More American Longtails.. Blue creams..

Ouuu beauties ! I love the females

 

[dvang3]

Then here's a pic of the black bantams I bred down. Plan to add them in the mix next just for some more blood.

So pretty!
IS there a roo to go with?

 

[dvang3]

Yes it is easier than color to fix. However, these are from my American Longtail project and some of them lay blue eggs which is a characteristic I am breeding for. It is very hard to separate the peacomb gene from the blue egg gene..

Here are a couple pics of the blue cockerel. He is young yet, but color looks fantastic..! Peacombed however, but I don't care too much about that. Most of the hens are straight combed so he will be enough to clean up color..




He is technically an American Longtail.. ( a breed I created here)

Neat color ! Keep up the good work

 

[onagadori]

Amanda, heres some old pics just for now. This is one of the flytie x phoenix roos I got from Toni



Here's one of the ohiki crosses



then here's some of the cuckoo and birchen girls I have been breeding too.






well, couldnt find the one of the plain cuckoo girls, it's in here some where.
will be taking all new pics soon. But that's the foundation birds at least for the project. I'll try to get some of this years hatches on as soon as I get time to take them.

Love the first rooster. My flytie ohiki gets a decent tail on him..

But like you, I don't have any recent pics either. I will try to snag some. He has been in the breeding pen but has a pretty nice tail on him considering..

 

[onagadori]

Then here's a pic of the black bantams I bred down. Plan to add them in the mix next just for some more blood.

Pretty hen.. Still in love with the long tailed black hen Toni has. My all time FAVORITE OF THE BLACKS!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Pretty hen.. Still in love with the long tailed black hen Toni has. My all time FAVORITE OF THE BLACKS!

mine too hands down.
Keep hoping to get some like that out of these I have too.

and yep, both those barred boys did get decent tail and saddle lenght this year. Those pics of them were take about this time last year. They ended up pretty nice all in all. They are both molting now , so I'm hoping they will be even better this year.