Sulmtalers Thread

[jeremy]

This rooster is Wheaten, which typically has a gold base.

@RavynFallen this bird is not Golden Duckwing.

He is Golden Wheaten, meaning instead of the normal gold base, he also possesses silver genes. To make it more simple to understand, he's "1/2 Gold, 1/2 Silver."

If he were a Silver Wheaten, he would look like this. No gold feathers present at all as he is completely lacking gold genes.
Just pulled this image from a Google search...

If Duckwing genes were present the hens would have a different phenotype. Duckwing and Wheaten males look very similar, hence the misinformation/confusion.

 

[Chickielady]

A few I kept from mating blue wheaten/blue wheaten

This reminds me more & more of the Wheaten & Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas I have going here...yet they do not have any "duck wing" barring on the wing, and the rest of the "silver males" I have seen around have no other color other than Black & white, and so those are ? Silvers ?

OK, so I have what I have & breed like I do my Wheaten & Blue Wheaten Ams...OK

 

[Chickielady]

This rooster is Wheaten, which typically has a gold base.


@RavynFallen this bird is not Golden Duckwing.

He is Golden Wheaten, meaning instead of the normal gold base, he also possesses silver genes. To make it more simple to understand, he's "1/2 Gold, 1/2 Silver."

If he were a Silver Wheaten, he would look like this. No gold feathers present at all as he is completely lacking gold genes.
Just pulled this image from a Google search...

If Duckwing genes were present the hens would have a different phenotype. Duckwing and Wheaten males look very similar, hence the misinformation/confusion.

Thanks Jeremy !

 

[Ravynscroft]

Guess someone should tell GFF then...

 

[jeremy]

Thanks Jeremy !

Yup.

 

[jeremy]

Guess someone should tell GFF then...

They wouldn't care, they're propagators, not breeders.

 

[Chickielady]

They wouldn't care, they're propagators, not breeders.

The salesan who sold me my bird's (eggs) called them silver & gold duckwing Sulmtalers...as does GFF....crazy !

 

[Chickielady]

So, I am deeply in love with my Sulmtalers, those interested please get on the FB page Sulmtaler's breeding Club, where many from Austria and Sweden are posting.
We have discussed the similarity of BBR, wheaten, Silver and gold duckwing, and other male's colorations ar the same, yet the difference in each, is the female's colors...therein lies the difference, a wheaten hen is different from a silver duckwing hen, and so on, yet the ,ales are almost identical.
Good to see so many breeders still here, and if you can, come to FB page..........



https://www.facebook.com/groups/SulmtalerUSA/

 

[Chickielady]

The other big-time FUNNY is that so many PPL are saying`Alsteirer, Styrian, Sulmtaler,....................they are the same bird, but yet in different countries.
While the Sulmtaler originated in Northern Italy (Padua, where my family comes from) and it is on the border of Switzerland, so the breed migrated North...and is spread about Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and a few 'SKI' countries....Starjerska Kokosi.......and so many many colors of this breed!
I also have nticed some colorations are slight...often "Leghorn-like" and others are beefy and short-legged....Dorking-like....


Look here:::

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SulmtalerUSA/

Love these birds !

 

[nikkers390]

My pullets are sweet and quiet. My rooster was big beautiful and very laid back. He was gentle with the hens and people. Unfortunately, after 2 years of peace and quiet, a bobcat managed to get into the pen and killed my rooster and one of the hens. They were a year old. My plan was to separate them into a breeding pen and wait for eggs. They were with my mixed flock so any eggs they lay may or may not be pure.
I am hoping someone in this group may have fertile eggs for sale so I can start over. I have 2 hens left. 2 gold wheaten and one silver wheaten.