Redcaps

[saladin]

Hamburgs should be able to be gotten from a Northern Show... particularly northeast.

Dorkings call Craig Russell, tell him what you want. He'll have it.

 

[flitter]

I'm heading for the show in CT in January... so I'll look. Thank you for the pointer.

 

[Yellow House Farm]

When j. says 'keep the four best females' he's not just refering to type here. Remember, if you want to increase size in any breed it is always easier to get it from the hen side. Keep the four best typed and big bottomed girls you can find.


Keep singing the song, 'Big bottomed girls make the world go 'round.'

and too true. Otherwise they'll end up all "tucked up" without good laying capacity.

 

[flitter]

YellowHouse and saladin You both seem to think the five toes on a Dorking won't be a difficult fix? Would a Rosecomb work as well as a GP Hamburg?

 

[Yellow House Farm]

You will get both at first, but, considering the inherent bredth of a project like this, you'd go into it expecting to hatch heavy and cull hard. Beginning at the incubator door, you could cull for toes and then hatch until you've reached a quota of 4-toed hatchlings. Considering the qoriginal cross would be a RC red dorking with a Glden Spangled (not Penciled) Hamburg, you're comb would e correct. From there you'd have to wait a little bit to get to phase two.

When you say Rosecomb, do you mean bantam? I'd avoid that like the plague on the grounds of color, ize, and one heck of an ear-lobe.

 

[flitter]

The ear is huge on the Rosecomb! and they are bantums. I'm not sure why/how Rosecomb came out.... I guess I was thinking about rosecombs. I intended to ask about Wyandotte. They have the rosecomb, red earlobes and are big. Would a Dorking/Wyandotte cross work? too big?
Sorry about the typo, GS Hamburg is what I've been looking for... I had GP Hamburgs last summer. They are small but the Dorkings aren't! The Hamburgs have that more upright carriage too.
I'm going to give this a try. I am just not sure about the best roo. Thanks for the advise and support.

 

[flitter]

The ear is huge on the Rosecomb! and they are bantums. I'm not sure why/how Rosecomb came out.... I guess I was thinking about rosecombs. I intended to ask about Wyandotte. They have the rosecomb, red earlobes and are big. Would a Dorking/Wyandotte cross work? too big?
Sorry about the typo, GS Hamburg is what I've been looking for... I had GP Hamburgs last summer. They are small but the Dorkings aren't! The Hamburgs have that more upright carriage too.
I'm going to give this a try. I am just not sure about the best roo. Thanks for the advise and support.

Could I just breed Redcap to Dorking... Is the other breed rooster a great help for diversity?

 

[flitter]

Just discovered the Wyandotte lays a brown egg, according to Henderson's chart. Redcaps are supposed to lay white eggs... mine are a creamy beige. So there goes the Wyandotte, I suppose. Hamburgs lay white eggs and so do Dorkings,(according to Henderson).
I'm looking for a BIG Hamburg... or going right to the Redcap.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i think the GP hamburg would help color and toes... i dont see y you could not just use the red dorking... u are going to have to cull very heavy ether way...

Could I just breed Redcap to Dorking... Is the other breed rooster a great help for diversity?

 

[cubakid]

Wyandottes I'd see as being too round. They have a rosecomb but it is different. The Hamburg helps keep the spike, toes, and body shape much closer, compared to a Wyandotte.