Show Off Your Games!

[Md Whitehackle]

first hen is a sweeter second bird is a Antietam leiper stag at 7 month's 3rd is a leiper stag at 1 year 4th is a joeredmond cock at 3years 5th is a Antietam leiper brood cock at 9 years my oldest bird his name is tanker

 

[centrarchid]

my previous post should work now.

 

[Md Whitehackle]

Everybody shows all the pretty pictures and I have shown very few. First I will concentrate on three birds (1 cock and 2 hens) that are each being linebred back to for three generations. Cock and hen will be bred back to for third and last time this season and another hen has one more season to go.

Cock (Red) that is what we call "dirty-Hatch". I do not know if he has actual Hatch in his background but if he does it is from way back.




Hen A (Sallie) that throws stags that are typical "Hatch-looking" especially as she is being bred to her male descendants.




Hen B (Speck) that carries alleles that make for brown-breasted brown red males and she also carries an allele that makes for a lighter colored base coloration. I have several like her as pullets but they do not breed true with respect to color.



I am playing around with some of their offspring trying to figure out the genetic basis for the color patterns they exhibit. After next year only the third generation line-bred birds will be carried forth in breeding pens.

Typical "Hatch-colored" cock.



Another dirty-hatch as a bullstag. He was culled shortly after but still represents point made.



Brown-breasted brown red cock from a couple years back. Breading this guy to hens like Sallie throws 100% dirty stags and about half the pullets look like the line B (Speck) hen.

nice birds I see a lot of straight comb maybe blue face hatch,claret,brownred,or even some red quill

 

[Md Whitehackle]

yep that's it blue face hatch

 

[centrarchid]

Mine are not Hatch. I remember as kid back in early 1970's my elders saying they were Hatch-looking but that did not make them Hatch. They had some other blood in them from even further back that was not Hatch and there was quite a bit. These birds are of that same line.

 

[gamelife]

Hey Antietam, another Leiper lover I assume. How do like them?
Check these guys out.

 

[Md Whitehackle]

Hey Antietam, another Leiper lover I assume. How do like them?
Check these guys out.

very nice birds and yes I love my leipers. your leipers have some dark hackle are the rat/pinion leipers. got to love them big ol white puff ball on there back and that coal black tail

 

[Md Whitehackle]

Mine are not Hatch. I remember as kid back in early 1970's my elders saying they were Hatch-looking but that did not make them Hatch. They had some other blood in them from even further back that was not Hatch and there was quite a bit. These birds are of that same line.

cool very nice line of birds do they all come with black tails or do you get some with a few white tail feathers

 

[Md Whitehackle]

Hey Antietam, another Leiper lover I assume. How do like them?
Check these guys out.

if you go to show off your American game thread I have my bird story on that page I think its on the last page

 

[centrarchid]

Black tails only. Straight comb only. Combs run small until outcrossed, always that way in my lifetime. Used to have brown reds and redquills popped up once in a while. When brown reds dropped out of what i have, so did redquill.