Post Phoenix Pics Please

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

well get rid of all that other stuff and go for it!! haha

Did you see the new pic of the blue silver ginger??



He's still just a baby but getting there

Here's a pyle I got from Toni too

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Our first phoenix eggs will go into the incubator this Friday. Most will be from the golden hen with golden cock but there are a few from the silver hen with golden cock before we moved her. She just started laying again now that she is with the white cockerel from the silver hen x golden cock.

So from this hatch we are expecting pure goldens, sexlinked chicks (silver cockerels/golden pullets) and pure silver and white chicks. I am rather excited even though it is still a month away. I was digging through old pics and found some of the cuckoo/barred pullet we had years ago that made me want to restart that project so I think it may be something to work with this coming season

 

[Celtic Hill]

Aubrey you having amazing birds! It's prob a good thing you don't live closer because I would have one of each!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Thanks Ian, I know the feeling...

FMP,

I made some cuckoos last summer too off some silver barred birds I got from Toni Marie. Really like them. Plan to use them to start the creles this year. Think 3 of the pullets are barred birchens too. But there is a trio of just plan cuckoo out there.

Will have to take some pics of them when I get a chance

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

That would be awesome to see. Ours came out of our crele project that we had going back then.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Yay, it worked! The picture is from the old 3.5 megapixel camera but you get the idea. I think this pullet was only maybe 4 months old.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep I remember seeing pics of them on here a few years ago, very nice birds... that's pretty much spitting image of mine too, got them off silver creles this past year.

 

[Celtic Hill]

What is the average tail on a phoenix? Oh and I just ordered the book Toni and David wrote! Can't wait for it to come in.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I'd love to see your silver creles too.

The average tail length varies from line to line and bird to bird. My bantam golden cock's tail is about my leg length and they are still in pins, he molted back in September. The bantam white cockerel that is from a fall hatch has a 2- 2 1/2' tail. I have seen some phoenix bantams with 4' long tails, it all varies.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, I agree, all depends on size and lines, they can go from junk birds that are just slightly longer than average cocks. To 2-3 foot on decent birds to 4-6 on great ones. Then the large fowl can be a bit longer.

I keep all mine pretty much in breeding pens , so they get stepped on a lot and broken, even at that I have some bantams at 4 foot which is super good for a bantam and even better for a bird on the ground with hens.

Some of the super non molting large fowl lines can get 6-8 foot if well kept... Think Davids good boy is over 10 now...but bare in mind he's 60 +% onagadori too, he'd be an exception to the rule.


over all 2-4 foot converts with saddles 1/4- 1/3 that lenght are really good birds.



I'll see if I have any pics of the silver creles. If not I'll take some. I got the male from Toni... he's just a single copy bar right now, so his barring isnt super clear and has a few black feathers in the tail still. But that should all go away on this years chicks now