Sumatra Thread!

[gootziecat]

Does any one have Sumatras with black skin?

 

[klf73]

Of the many eggs I tried hatching to get dun sumatra I ended up with a lf black rooster and a bantam black sumatra hen. The rooster isn't the smartest bird as he keeps trying to mate my poor runner ducks and is starting to hurt them. He was just a novely and was allowed to free range, think he will be culled very soon as I have lost one duck because he is so rough with them, frantically trying to mate them. Funny thing is there are a lot of free range hens of various breed and he prefers the ducks, go figure. The lone bantam hen will probably be put with my oegb hens since she is about the same size as them. *sigh*, so after 3 years of trying to establish my own breeding flock of dun sumatra (lf preferred) I am throwing in my hat and going to focus on my other breeds. Hopefully these beauties will have enough people to work on lf dun and I can get chicks in a few years. Until then I will look forward to pics of the duns

 

[gallo4319]

I was thinking to work on something similar adding black skin to my sumatras they got good dark pigmentation
Sumatras don't supposed to have dark of black meat.
Mines are white meat b ut since I started adding more protein to their diet
some have even get darker face and yellow skin meat still white
But I don't feel like eating dark meat is not that it taste different or anything
I had some orientals with dark meat feathered in black ,blue,blue and dun mixes I ate some of those I culled
Some of them I sold them.

 

[ramirezframing]

If I was to breed a dun to black I get a mix of both. What if I breed dun to dun? And off the cross of dun to black, the black chicks from here, could they throw dun offspring?

 

[klf73]

I always think of dun as a brownish version of blue

black x black = black
black x dun = black and dun
dun x dun = black, dun, and khaki

at least that is the info I have...

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Dun is basically like blue as far as breeding goes. Dun x dun gives 50% dun, 25% khaki (splash), and 25% black. Those blacks will not throw duns in the future. Be careful though, I have seen some duns and even blues that are so dark that they look black but when mated to dun or blue they throw splash/khaki chicks, it can be a pain sometimes.

 

[jeremy]

I have a very, very dark Dun chick in the brooder right now. I'll try to get some pictures today.

 

[Whittni]

Are the bantams also flightly like *the* full sized ones?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

None of my sumatras are really flighty. But I guess it depends on your definition of flighty. When I hear the term I think production leghorns that spazz out when you walk into their pen. Some can be spooky but most are pretty calm around people. They love to free range and are good fliers in my experience. They are almost more feral when it comes to that. The new hen I have is somewhat spooky and one of the blacks (the one I didn't know we had until she showed up at the feeder doing the broody cluck). I don't know about other folks but many of my sumatras do the 'death scream' when they get caught. When I grab them, they scream like something is killing them.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

None of my sumatras are really flighty. But I guess it depends on your definition of flighty. When I hear the term I think production leghorns that spazz out when you walk into their pen. Some can be spooky but most are pretty calm around people. They love to free range and are good fliers in my experience. They are almost more feral when it comes to that. The new hen I have is somewhat spooky and one of the blacks (the one I didn't know we had until she showed up at the feeder doing the broody cluck). I don't know about other folks but many of my sumatras do the 'death scream' when they get caught. When I grab them, they scream like something is killing them

I had an Icelandic hen that did that... I about dropped her, she shocked me so much!