Sumatra Thread!

[4Hgirl]

Won Best in Show at my 4H show today put of 92 birds with my LF black Sumatra Pullet !! Can't wait till the Big York show next weekend

Congratulations! Ours won best standard at our county 4h last month. Sumatras cleaning up!!

 

[4Hgirl]

  I must have missed that part. What I meant was I would be THRILLED with only 1 black. The best rate I have gotten is 60% blue 40% black. Usually with my flock it is the other way around, and yeah once in a great while a nice little splash

We are new to Sematras. Do you get mixed colors when you breed and hatch them? It was my understanding you get what you breed in birds and you don't mix colors when you breed.

 

[stonykill]

We are new to Sematras. Do you get mixed colors when you breed and hatch them? It was my understanding you get what you breed in birds and you don't mix colors when you breed.

you can breed black to black and still expect 20% to be blue. Don't beleive everything you google on Sumatra's. 99% ofit (besides what is on this thread) is just WRONG.

 

[chickletteSarge]

  I would be THRILLED with that outcome!

yea buddy!!!
x2!!!!

 

[raph]

  you can breed black to black and still expect 20% to be blue. Don't beleive everything you google on Sumatra's. 99% ofit (besides what is on this thread) is just WRONG. 

So if a black Sumatra who has no blue grandparents or parents, still be able to breed blue at random?

 

[stonykill]

So if a black Sumatra who has no blue grandparents or parents, still be able to breed blue at random?

genetics. Just how it works. Breed black on black and expect at least 20% to be blue.

 

[Infnityhrt]

genetics. Just how it works. Breed black on black and expect at least 20% to be blue.

I always thought black to black was 100% black, here is a good simple link about breeding black, blue, and splash.http://briarwoodpoultry.weebly.com/breeding-blue-poultry.html Hope it helps

 

[stonykill]

I always thought black to black was 100% black, here is a good simple link about breeding black, blue, and splash.http://briarwoodpoultry.weebly.com/breeding-blue-poultry.html Hope it helps

I'll take 5 years of personal breeding experience over something read on the internet. That link mean nothing. Sorry but it doesn't. The real world of Sumatra's says different. Typical.

 

[stonykill]

this little jerk was chicken hunting at 10:30 this morning. Got him right between the eyes with open sights

 

[Infnityhrt]

I'll take 5 years of personal breeding experience over something read on the internet. That link mean nothing. Sorry but it doesn't. The real world of Sumatra's says different. Typical.

Guess it just depends on what genes your sumatras are carrying, In the 9 years I've bred my line I get 100% black when breeding black to black.