Post Phoenix Pics Please

[Moonlight Piano]

Hey everyone

. It has been a while since I posted, so I thought I would update on my latest phoenix happenings. I sold my original show trio to a man from
Atlanta for $60.00 ( might could have gotten more

) But luckily I hatched out two chicks from them and they turned out to be pare

, so extreme care must be given to ensure I get some more to raise this spring.

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[flyingmonkeypoop]

As I am trying to set up breeding plans for the phoenix I am still debating on what to do. Going into spring we have the golden cock and the recessive white cockerel. The white is out of the golden cock and silver hen and his siblings were brassy silver. I am half tempted to breed him back to his mother to get more silvers but as it sits right now he is in with a light brown hen. The golden is with a golden hen and the silver hen. Since the whole line carries recessive white so any ideas?

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

pretty much could go either way. With all that, they'll either come out one or the other color, just depends on which color needs more stock or improvement on. Either way you wont go wrong in making more longtails. If nothing else, just do like me and rotate roosters all year. By changing the roos in the pens from time to time you can work on all of them a little more. From what I have found with my birds, when chaging males, it only take about 3 days before the eggs are being fertilized by the new male.
Good luck to you.

 

[onagadori]

A few updated pics of my young cockerels from 2011.. a blue pullet also from my black roo (no relation to the black shubert lines)
red splash and red mahogany ginger (around 7 months old)

 

[extraordinaryfowl]

That red splash is really nice!

 

[gallo4319]

I like the last picture is that a blue hen or a cockerel?

 

[onagadori]

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Thank you..She is a hen..

 

[onagadori]

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thank you..

 

[Toni-Marie]

He looks like a red pyle almost...So both parent birds were blue then?? They would have to be if it's a true splash....TM

 

[onagadori]

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splash father to a blue mother. That makes 50% splash offspring and 50% blue. So by phenotype, it was splash to blue, but splash is considered by some as double blue (BLBL)