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[artblueggwanter]

good lookin birds man

 

[JShubin]

yeah she is mostly hatch. She is 1/4 Black tho. Her mom (the Golden hen) is offspring from a Hatch over a Black/Grey (birchen) hen.

And also has some white Spanish game and Grey...

Mixed Hatch would work.. if you bred her to a hatch cock, I would say its safe to say you could call the offspring "hatch".

 

[sdm111]

YEAH, my pops loved those birds, most of his dark red like that.

wise man

 

[sdm111]

yeah she is mostly hatch. She is 1/4 Black tho.  Her mom (the Golden hen) is offspring from a Hatch over a Black/Grey (birchen) hen. 

And also has some white Spanish game and Grey...

Mixed Hatch would work.. if you bred her to a hatch cock, I would say its safe to say you could call the offspring  "hatch".

what u could do is wipe out everybody then get up with flypen get some of his machines and call it a day

 

[B123]

So with this hennie confirmed ima get him any way, let's say I put him over a hatch hen. What's gonna happen will I get at least a few out of many chicks that turn out looking like him? Suppose u just cull hard. I dint want anything that looks mixed. I'd like to get males and females that look hennie. Can that be done with a regular hen?

Thoughts

Hen feathering in males is casued by a simple mutation Hf. Hen feathered males could be Hf/Hf "homozygous or pure" or Hf/hf "heterozygous", hf/hf is "normal male feathering". Hf/Hf males become hen feathered quickly, while Hf/hf males may not show hen feathering until second molt. This has to do with the maturation of he testes... Interestingly, it seems testosterone is needed to "activate the mutation, so Hf/hf birds are slower to show the mutation.

Assuming your male is Hf/Hf, a little back crossing should get you some nice Hennies pretty quickly if you select for the males that show it from a younger age. It will be harder on the female side, since you can't see it, so you will just have to do some test crosses with an Hf/Hf male to find females that are carrying "Hf" and not "hf".

Hope this helps!

 

[sdm111]

Perfect thanks I was gonna,ask u too. But honestly all I understand is its possible. Thanks I know it's possible

 

[B123]

You are welcome. It will just take some culling!

 

[sdm111]

Yeah I'll cull as necessary. I think I'm getting it thanks for laying it out in a manner of teaching instead of a manner of making sure everyone knows that you are an elite scholar and everyone else is subordinate.

 

[B123]

I am just learning myself... If it doesn't work you can tell me I am full of it later! Like we talked about with your Blues, there are a lot of underlying modifiers that make things work out a little different in game fowl. I don't have any first hand experience with Hennies, but the one caution is that those Hf/hf males can do some funny things with different molts. Some of the old males can even revert back to male plumage if their testes give out!

 

[narragansett1]

That bird is my partners bird so I'm not sure about the twisted spurs I no the cock is very old and with his comb has been a life time brood cock hell we have a gray brood cock with 2 inch spurs because he built his brood pen with no doors...