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[flypen]

Still like them typewriters pen.

Me too

 

[roosterhavoc]

Lol I don't normally put but 12-14 eggs under a hen, this hen was able to hide her nest from me and bring off a bunch of yard monkeys

Man they do the best like that if they don’t get eaten. No human intervention. I had 13 last year. Kept 1 stag just to see how he turns out.

 

[centrarchid]

1/2 this and 1/2 that.

Breeding coloration.

Same bird coming into partial eclipse feathering. Really interested in seeing how dark the neck will get.

 

[flypen]

Man they do the best like that if they don’t get eaten. No human intervention. I had 13 last year. Kept 1 stag just to see how he turns out.

I know she had help laying the eggs she hatched because 3 of them are greys

 

[Texicano]

1/2 this and 1/2 that.

Breeding coloration.

Same bird coming into partial eclipse feathering. Really interested in seeing how dark the neck will get.
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The closest I've seen to that were black spots appearing on the hackle feathers, but not on the tips. Do you know why those black spots appear centra?
I recall 2 years ago after we dubbed all the bullstags, a stag escaped his cage overnight and fought another freshly dubbed bird through the wire. Well the next morning I found the bird dead and the one in the cage down, exhausted, and sick. His face swelled up from pecks he took and being just dubbed didn't help. 2-3 days later I noticed the black spots starting to appear on the hackle feathers. Grew to the size of a penny or nickle, multiple spots too.

Never asked anybody but I'm sure they appeared as he was down and ill.

Also you mentioned "partial eclipse feathering", so what does full eclipse feathering look like?

 

[centrarchid]

Full eclipse will have the hackle feathers solid black and very short like on a hen, possibly shorter. The breeding hackles are much longer with pointy tips as we are all familiar with. My opinion is the eclipse feathering is less obvious during season when ancestral jungle fowl was not breeding. Additionally, the eclipse feathering likely allowed better flight capacity and dumping of heat. In my birds, the eclipse feathering may be induced by heat stress occurring in late spring to early summer. Long photoperiod may also play a role but heat stress is not an issue when photoperiod is short so not able say much on that.

 

[centrarchid]

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don’t know that I would want roosters wasting feed growing in hen feathers. When my birds molt they lose they’re cape feathers and grow in normal rooster cape feathers behind them. I think that is something that has been bred out of them over the years and yours are part duck.

 

[1cock2hens]

Good trail cam that sends pics to your phone/ computer? I suspect I got meth heads wondering my woods

 

[roosterhavoc]

Good trail cam that sends pics to your phone/ computer? I suspect I got meth heads wondering my woods

Flypen will know. I think the good ones nowadays are pretty damn expensive. I’ve been going caveman lately and haven’t used one in awhile.