Post Phoenix Pics Please

[pokey]

Trying to resist phoenix.....I thought I had my heart set on blue silver duckwing as my favorite color, but I really love the pic of the blue hen. Love her tail length.if I were new I'd think it was a roo also.

 

[onagadori]

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LOL Pokey.. You are getting addicted.. lol. Blue silvers are gorgeous.. If that is what you like, I will have some later.. I won't keep them all for sure.. Solid blues and blacks are coming along well.. These are no relation to the black shubert phoenix.. I made this line.. I am praying I will have enough to share later this year.. Setting all I can and will be breeding her back to her father.. A few came out with yellow legs.. One is even yellow legged and peacombed.. So I guess we will have black and blue yoko type birds...

 

[pokey]

Hey I like that idea....I like the small peacombs on the Yokos and I think I was given bad info about phoenix temperment when I first started looking at breeds. The minohiki and satsumadori totally fascinate me. I hope your projects are rewarded, you have been totally kind to me and shown your true colors. Keep up the the good work, I am getting addicted.

 

[onagadori]

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Minohiki is one of my favorite breeds.. And the satsumadori.. I am making crosses with cubalays, malays, shamos and phoenix working on minohiki this year.. I can't hardly wait to see the first chicks come out.. Too exciting..

 

[pokey]

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Minohiki is one of my favorite breeds.. And the satsumadori.. I am making crosses with cubalays, malays, shamos and phoenix working on minohiki this year.. I can't hardly wait to see the first chicks come out.. Too exciting..

Ok, for all the longtail enthusiast on here you must post pictures of those!

 

[onagadori]

Will do pokey...

 

[Toni-Marie]

I really like the color with the red...I like the the tail angle on them also...Very pretty birds for sure...TM

 

[onagadori]

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thank you.

 

[Bentley]

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From a reproductive perspective, the last sperm in is the first sperm out. Hens have sperm storage tubules where they can store sperm cells and maintain fertility and embryo livability for up to 3 weeks. Once a hen has been inseminated (mated), the sperm cells are deposited and stored in the storage tubules near the vaginal region. Following passage of an egg down the oviduct the LAST sperm cells deposited will be released and will migrate to the upper regions of the oviduct to await ovulation of the next ovum or yolk and THAT egg will be fertilized. So, when mating occurs, either artificial or an observed natural mating, eggs laid two days later will be fertilized by the new male. So when a male is added to a group of hens on a Tuesday, those hens that were mated that day will begin laying eggs fertilized by the new male on Thursday. This of course, relies on successful mating and transfer of sperm cells to the hen.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, that's pretty much the jest of it Bentley.
On the 3rd day, all the project breeding I do is then from the new male. Yep, It's true if you dont add a male but remove the old one, the hen can still lay fertile eggs for up to 3 weeks off stored sperm. But if a new one is added, the new one is the sperm she uses.
Glad to see it explained in a scientific way.
You'd be surprised at how many folks want to argue with me about that. They all want to say it takes 3 weeks to clean out a hen and you wont get eggs off a new male til then... Well that's just not the case .
Thanks for the follow up post on it!