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[centrarchid]

Have you ever bred those lighter birds to something dark like a brown red? When I do it red quill pop up all over the place.

 

[sdm111]

No but was thinking on putting the black roundhead over one of those in the spring.

 

[centrarchid]

No but was thinking on putting the black roundhead over one of those in the spring.

I be interested in seeing that. Watch for red quill chicks at hatch.

 

[sdm111]

What would be the dominate color? Guess neither

 

[triple m maze]

Looking good there...

 

[sdm111]

kelso hatch with his 2 different colored legs and toes

 

[sdm111]

sister and yeah that's an insulator

 

[centrarchid]

Anybody seen delayed hennie feathering that does not show until bullstag starts molting into cock feathering? I have an F2 bullstag out a hen based line that was BBR until the last 30 days when hennie feathering is showing up big time. He is starting to look like his grandmother / mom except a lot larger. Change seems concentrated on body. Female side of same line also seems to molt twice in the fall where first featherset is a lot darker, even darker than the new feathers that replace them a month or two later. Same line also pretty consistent at showing eclipse molt.

 

[centrarchid]

Here are some pics of the bullstag. He will be less henly than I indicated above but will still be funky looking. He has no actual Hennie in him and I do not recall this look in BBR's before but might have seen it in some brown reds and redquills back in the 70's which are in his breeding. I did some reading that indicates heterozygotes do not exhibit the Hennie phenotype until that get their first cock feathering like this guy is doing now.

 

[fowlman01]

He has saddle and hackle feathers.

Walt