Post Phoenix Pics Please

[tandersphoenix]

I like it !! Very nice silver blue!

 

[Missy3b]

I have 6 bantam phoenix babies 3-4 months old. 1 Golden, 3 silver and two red. One of the roos has green legs and two have blue. Is one color right and one wrong?

Also, does it really make a difference to feed show quality feed?

Lastly, a long time ago I saw a post that listed the results of mixing colors of phoenixes. For example if you breed a silver with a red you get whatever. I looked back through the posts and can't find it. My son does not believe me that we can mix them and still get true colors. Am I right?

I will take new pictures of our golden and post to get opinions. Here is one from a month or so ago.

 

[tandersphoenix]

Hi, IF you are planning to show green legs will be a disqualification but,, I would not cull him just because of that. There is something with the green legs that is tied with the non molting gene and multiple feathering gene. I try to stay away from green legged birds but sometimes is needed to get some tail length back in your birds. There are quite a few breeders that are breeding for tail traits as their main focus and they tend to like the green legged birds. Just depends on what your goals are with them. The colors can be crossed if you need to. The bantam Silver Phoenix here in the U S pretty much all carry recessive white so you may have some whites pop out too from time to time.

 

[Missy3b]

My son will be showing the birds at our county fair, possibly going to the state fair too. If green legs will disqualify at that level, we will go with the birds with blue legs. Thanks.

 

[tandersphoenix]

That is great! I see you are in Missouri. I show at the State Fair too and would love to see some more people showing Phoenix. Maybe I'll see you there

 

[Break an Egg]

my boy is filling out where we had that accident with his tail

I still think he looks good, what do yall think?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yep that's true with the green legged birds.
also if he doesnt believe you on the mixing, which I believe I posted in the begining, tell him to go here

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

This is the chicken calculator, it shows you all possible colors results when you know what you are using for the cross. any duckwing color crossed to any other duckwing color will give true duckwing colors. Yes like Travis mentioned, most of what people call white here carry silver duckwing, and most silver duckwing as a result carry recessive white. so a white is possible out of silvers. aside fomr that, if you know the line, you can predicte what your color crosses will be on there.
By the way, it's a European site, they dont call them BB red like we do, it the partridge (light brown) if you try to use them in a cross.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yes to qualify as a standard american phoenix in either size, they must have slate blue legs

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

just got back from my Toni-Marie visit today. I love that woman!
She is so nice, and we spent about 2 hours today looking at her birds and talking genetics and stuff. Very informative, and my God what some nice birds too. Brought back 14 I think even 1 of the fibro males, I love him. And my God standards are monsters in size compared to what I am use too, but that big black boy is the most gentle and easy to handel bird I have already.

Will get some pics as soon as I can, got all sorts of nice stuff.

I belive some one asked earlier how she did the fibro pigment. We talked about that a good bit too, she used her ayami ceymanis to get that color into their skin and meat. The pictures do not do them justice either, they are awesome in person.

And dont even get me started on the ohiki....those are some kind of cool little guys now, and some are pretty darn small too. that rear end butt mop kills me though, cant get them out of my head..

Anyway, just wanted to say a little about that, I really enjoyed myself today doing that, and look forward to my next visit too, and hope to have her here one day to look over all this stuff here.

 

[tandersphoenix]

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He looks good. He sure does have some wide tail feathers!