Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[B123]

The Typewriters that I have now will throw a pea comb yellow leg, the only reason for this is someone added something to them somewhere down the line. The original 2 families that made them where straight comb. None of the Typewriters should ever come with dark legs. The Miners are as sdm said, some of the breeders that had them bred to the white or splash side and some bred to the blue breasted reds. You always were bet against for having off colored fowl regardless and if you ever got to compete in one of the world championships over 95% of the fowl would be Reds or Greys.

Interesting on the Typewriters. I understand on the Reds and Greys. If I remember correctly, you have some fine looking Spangled Hatch? Would that still be considered an off color because of the Spangle?

 

[B123]

Don't buy straight comb roundheads

Why not? lol

 

[B123]

you're welcome if you were closer I'd give u some more. I've decided to clear out most and just keep a couple trios of each. Getting a lil much especially with the time change but I get off a bunch this time of year every year

That's awful generous of you! Wish I lived closer. I hear you on the time change and getting everything done before the sun goes down. Won't be long till spring, at least that is what I keep telling myself. It is crazy. We are supposed to be 70 degrees and sunny tomorrow, but it will change on Saturday.

 

[JShubin]

I think the Red and Grey are more naturally colors and most performance breeding programs would end up with those colors... To breed "off" colors consistently, you have to select fowl based on color... and this might be at the expense of performance.

 

[JShubin]

Once you have a big enough population of "off" colored birds you could then select based on performance within that color group. But that limits you...

You can breed red to anything and its basically 50/50 or greater chance it will be red.

 

[B123]

I think the Red and Grey are more naturally colors and most performance breeding programs would end up with those colors... To breed "off" colors consistently, you have to select fowl based on color... and this might be at the expense of performance.

Agreed, unfortunately some sacrifice performance for color, which I understand to a point, but it is so hard to get that performance back.

 

[sdm111]

Just like a bunch of people have reds and Grey's a bunch of people have " off colors " In the totality of it. It don't matter the total number of a given breed/family in say the U.S. u only have so much room physically to work with. If u bring in 3 red families its just that easy to do with blues and have the same degree of fresh blood if u got the connections

 

[birdman55]

From the pics the hens"grandparents" have spurs and I see a pic of the grandfather and it has white streamers. By streamers do u mean full feathers being white or only the ends of the dark tail feathers

 

[centrarchid]

The "streamers" term making sense now. That is what we used to call "trim" in sicle feathers. It was / is not a feature I have dealt with. Closest thing I have seen to it is with redquill x grey birds. The streamer or trim was on both sides of the vane extending nearly the entire length of the sicles. Color also not outright white like in proper streamers.



Some of the color variants may be linked or otherwise associated with visual or physiological limitations. I heard many times the phrase "If it is not red, its dead".

 

[centrarchid]

From the pics the hens"grandparents" have spurs and I see a pic of the grandfather and it has white streamers. By streamers do u mean full feathers being white or only the ends of the dark tail feathers

"Streamer" is the white dorsal edging on the sicle feathers of the tail. If tail is fanned out, then white will be on side of feather facing tail middle.