Post Phoenix Pics Please

[Celtic Hill]

Amanda you have Milli Phoenix?! Im picturing porcaline (sp?) and dying, would love to see these guys in that color!

 

[onagadori]

the main difference I see at this point is the lack of lacing... the quail start getting lacing in on the black body pretty quick, these just look chocolate, but the down patterne looked as if it was almost identical. That tan face comes with all the quail patterns. So far from everything I have hatched, they are the only ones that have been a solid body color with a tan or cream face.... Maybe that will be of some help??

I am wondering if this points to a columbian gene present in the parent stock. I will try to isolate who is throwing it and see if I can test them for columbian. Thanks for your help.

 

[onagadori]

Amanda you have Milli Phoenix?! Im picturing porcaline (sp?) and dying, would love to see these guys in that color!

Yes, but I don't have lavender and all the lavenders I have come across are still real works in progress. I think pearl would be nice too.. I am working on mottled pretty heavily.. I can do cream dilute blue millies... Would look similar to porcelain.

 

[onagadori]

the main difference I see at this point is the lack of lacing... the quail start getting lacing in on the black body pretty quick, these just look chocolate, but the down patterne looked as if it was almost identical. That tan face comes with all the quail patterns. So far from everything I have hatched, they are the only ones that have been a solid body color with a tan or cream face.... Maybe that will be of some help??

They are not laced, which rules out birchen or quail. So maybe they are penciled or spangled. That is what I have been working on..

 

[Soli]

Here's the Blue-silver cockerel that's about 4 months old. He's out of some hens I culled shortly after getting the new roo. I didn't like the hens at all, but I do kind of like the way this cockerel looks - he's leggier than the others, won't have as good feather but looks good in his own way. He is a bit dirty - got pooped on his shoulder area. He's definitely not a clean silver - pretty sure a clean silver won't be doable with what I have, but I can make silver splash, which is nice.

 

[Celtic Hill]

sound pretty!! Now that I got Ohiki, I have the longtail bug!

 

[onagadori]

Here's the Blue-silver cockerel that's about 4 months old. He's out of some hens I culled shortly after getting the new roo. I didn't like the hens at all, but I do kind of like the way this cockerel looks - he's leggier than the others, won't have as good feather but looks good in his own way. He is a bit dirty - got pooped on his shoulder area. He's definitely not a clean silver - pretty sure a clean silver won't be doable with what I have, but I can make silver splash, which is nice.

Soli, I think he is pretty.. I try not to cull until they are over a year old but it is better to wait until first real molt. He has a thinner tail it looks like, but good stance and nice tail angle. Good feather texture. and a beautiful color. Longtails is not always best bird to best bird makes a great bird.. Example.. my shojo is not a perfect nonmolter and the silver ginger hen I chose to breed him to, was average. They come from good lines, but are not amazing in themselves.. however, that being said, they made some of the most beautiful gingers I have seen in chicks this year.. It seems with longtails as you narrow your gene pool down, you get better quality birds.. Here is the dad, mom, and offspring.. (this is also the mating that produced my barred cream gingers)

 

[onagadori]

sound pretty!! Now that I got Ohiki, I have the longtail bug!

Careful, that one can be dangerous.. LOL> Everyone I know with it, ends up overrun with longtails.. LOL>

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha tell me about it!

 

[Celtic Hill]

Did I mention I got rid of all my other birds to make room for more birds?! I already have plans to make some breeding pens and a display area in the back yard for my mature birds (when their tails come in!)