Sumatra Thread!

[Sonia]

 

[championsumatra]

well she is a little bit too young to tell right now as well as molting but as she gets older and grows in her feathers I can tell you a lot more but so far good on color to the legs and a good dark face.

 

[Sonia]

Bottoms of her feet are a nice yello too. I do plan to breed her just for her personality so it will help me to know her faults so I can look for those strengths in a roo for her.

 

[Sonia]

Ill try to get pics of my little roo later on. He is at least twice her height.

 

[dsfrango]

So i was at a small show in Brockton MA Fairgrounds this past Sunday and there was a couple very good looking roos there. They looked much fuller in plumage than mine in a way they looked huge. They only had 1 or 2 spurs though. I spoke with the owner and considered a trade of some younger birds because I think maybe they would help my line. They had good yellow feet and dark heads, the whole nine yards but mainly to get some additional unrelated lines in my flock..........Good Idea??

Heres a most recent pic of my young roo(1.5yrs old)




I will be bk at the same fairgrounds for a show on Aug 4th and wil most definitely be bringing some chicks and/or eggs to sell if anyone's interested...

 

[championsumatra]

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Ok I will be happy to help you with that. Ones she is the right age PM some pics of her and I will tell you what to look for in her man.

 

[championsumatra]

I am getting a black sumatra rooster from James Smith in August or November some time. I hope this rooster will be a good one.

if not for some reason,I will not be getting a rooster from him.

 

[Sonia]

Thank you I don't plan on showing/selling but if I'm going to breed sumatras, well id like to breed sumatras lol

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

oh don't worry I knew what you were talking about. and thanks I enjoy you as well.

cool

 

[Infnityhrt]

He's right you know.

Me's a she might explain, why I have a tendency to be a bit more passionate or "emotional" LOL.
Everyone just know, I am not mad when I go to my ramblings, and I really don't care how you breed your birds, everyone has what they like, unless your breeding for show, then there is a standard to go by so you have an idea of what to do, there has to be consistency and that is what the standard sets and it doesn't say to DQ a bird if the head isn't the right shape, or if the tail is to short, those are just points, but weight is a DQ so I take that more seriously. It would be like breeding them with a white feathers in the wing and saying, well everything else is correct.. um no, it's a DQ, or lets breed them with a rose comb, but they are perfect otherwise, nope, DQ. So Champion, no hard feelings here, just you want to breed birds for show, I do too, so we should not be breeding birds for the show cage with disqualifications. We are working on Duns, are they perfect, no, there is still work to be done, but they are not recognized yet, it takes time, its a project. We all breed what we like and backyard chickens can be anything they want, but birds being bred for show should be bred to meet the standard and weight is a breed characteristic.