Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

I like that Khaki sumatra rooster he has a lot of potential. is he young? he looks nice so far.

 

[championsumatra]

here are one my breeding pens they don't look very good in this photos. I know my splash's angle looks bad but when his tail grows his angle is a lot lower.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Thanks. The khaki isn't quite a year old yet. He has fair type which will help some. His tail is still in pins and he is more soft feathered so I'm thinking he might have some phoenix/American longtail in him but he is a start. The dun bantam chick that hatched on Thanksgiving was taken by a predator so this guy is the next best thing. I still have a runty dun hen with the black bantam rooster but it is hard to tell the eggs apart. I should be able to get some bantam-ish duns this year either way though

 

[championsumatra]

cool

what I like about him is he is not upright. a chickens breeder told me once to be careful about that.

 

[4Hgirl]

My daughter is in 4H and we would like some show quality Sumatras. We have one hen already. Where do I find a few? We live in FL

 

[raph]

I'm so excited this morning at 11:00am i get my two fowl size Sumatra hens. The thing is in the UK and Ireland apparently it's hard to get fowl size Sumatra's.

i say apparently because my grandpa goes to all the sales. I would love to go to more but there aren't very much sales here in Ireland. I went to a sale with a Sumatra and he was sitting on my arm and be so tame and he looked great, and every one would walk up to me and say " a fine cockerel, is he a game bird? What breed?" so i would say " yes he is a nice bird his breed is for exhibition and he is a black Sumatra" at which point they would walk of looking confused. In Ireland they only like laying birds. and they would buy a warren of you and then tell every one that it's a rhode island red. so they don't know there breeds and they only want cheap egg layers.

What do you people think would a be a fair price for a Sumatra?
I read anything from £20-£30 so i would say about £25.

 

[raph]

It's a shame that this bird of mine has the brown on him, but he does look quite good for it.
that's what i think, but what do you think?

 

[stonykill]

It's a shame that this bird of mine has the brown on him, but he does look quite good for it.
that's what i think, but what do you think?

it happens. If you read the original writings from the mid 1800's you will read that Sumatra's were in a variety of colors in the wild. The unfortunate part is as humans a few of us decided 100 years ago that only black and blue were acceptable colors. I have had a few like that. I think they look great but I end up eating them and never let them breed as like I said, people have decided that isn't a color a Sumatra should be.
Out of 80-100 chicks hatched last year maybe 3 came out looking like that. So if you ask me it SHOULD be considered a rare color. As it rarely happens. But such is why I refuse to show.

 

[raph]

Ive read up on the brown before. But the bird with the orange/brown is called Bruce and he is from the same hatch as the black one i posted pics of earlier, his names Sid.they are part of my first ever hatch, granted its my first and only so far but the brown was in all of them accept Sid and a hen.

I got the two new hens earlier and one is very pretty, and she is nice and young. But the other one is older and has a big brown feather in her tail, she isn't bad tho. ill get some pictures in a the next hour. But remember they have just been on a lorry for 3 days.

And FMP (Michael) what do you know about the brown in the Sumatra's?
Because every body compliments the brown, yet it isn't in the standard, why?

any way I'm going to get some pictures.

 

[championsumatra]

I have a little bit of red in my black sumatra cockerel. it is because I have bred to much splash to him all down the line. his mom was a splash. she has red in her feathers but not too much only two feathers. you can't even see the red but if you look closer you can see it. but I don't think that is in your case.