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[CibolaChooks]

Yes in project form. Getting better each generation. You have seen some pictures on the barred EE thread I started. Some of my fellow club members do not like the idea so I post on EE threads. Lavender cuckoo also. I have some cuckoo/lav cuckoo splits growing. 1 more hatch in the incubator and currently collecting sex links from the same hens after a rooster change.

this is an awesome project. Those people with their noses in the air really need to grow up and try harder not manage other people

 

[tommysgirl]

this is an awesome project. Those people with their noses in the air really need to grow up and try harder not manage other people

People seem to forget that EVERY breed/color variety started as a project.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Not really. Many yes, but not all. Many breeds are many centuries old. Ditto with some varieties.

 

[tommysgirl]

Not really. Many yes, but not all. Many breeds are many centuries old. Ditto with some varieties.

You are absolutely right and I am probably not using correct chicken vocab. Yep there are breeds that are are centuries old...but centuries ago someone decided to selectively breed for certain qualities...I call that a project but I may be using the word incorrectly, in the chicken sense anyway.

If no one ever started a breeding project wouldn't we have only landraces??

 

[jerryse]

You are absolutely right and I am probably not using correct chicken vocab. Yep there are breeds that are are centuries old...but centuries ago someone decided to selectively breed for certain qualities...I call that a project but I may be using the word incorrectly, in the chicken sense anyway.

If no one ever started a breeding project wouldn't we have only landraces??

Even landraces get standardized in time. Breeds that come to mind are Basque, Serma , Icelandic and Swedish flower hens. I believe there are efforts to standardize these. My hope for Ameraucana projects is that they catch on and objections will fade. The projects with barring are genetically slate legged. Barring interrupts black in the feathers and legs. Seems silly to me to not accept a genetic reality. A genetic break is possible and I keep trying for one. The mottle project breeders recently reported such a genetic break. So there is hope.

 

[nicalandia]

Barring interrupts black in the feathers and legs. Seems silly to me to not accept a genetic reality. A genetic break is possible and I keep trying for one. The mottle project breeders recently reported such a genetic break. So there is hope.

if I Had the stock and the time I would have created Slate shanked Autosexing Ameraucanas, I am crazy enough to accomplish it

 

[jerryse]

if I Had the stock and the time I would have created Slate shanked Autosexing Ameraucanas, I am crazy enough to accomplish it

Yes I have that in the works also. Currently hatching a few second generation chicks. Hoping for a double barred cockerel to breed back to his dam for a late summer/fall third generation.

 

[nicalandia]

Yes I have that in the works also. Currently hatching a few second generation chicks. Hoping for a double barred cockerel to breed back to his dam for a late summer/fall third generation.

so cool

 

[FarmerJoe123]

So I have got a rooster that was from two black australorps . He shows the black sex link pattern, but how can that happen?

 

[nicalandia]

So I have got a rooster that was from two black australorps . He shows the black sex link pattern, but how can that happen?

umm. one of his parents is not an Australorp? thats how, sexlinked barring is not recessive its quite powerful and if you dont see it its because its not there hiding under both parents