Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

I really need mine to molt early all of the serious shows start in September and end in January. I don't go to spring shows my sumatras are generally not in the best condition at that time.

 

[raph]

i set some eggs this morning and they should be hatching around the 22nd, so thats exciting. I know its the wrong end of the year, but these hatches are more about finding out what's throwing what.

My birds aren't molting!

 

[zach N houdan]

Champion Sumatra farm your two old English are a birchen and a brown red that is not a lemon blue or at least that's what it looks like from the photo

 

[championsumatra]

that is what the hatchery had sent us was the lemon blue and birchen old english she is gust really dark for the standard color. she is blue. but thanks for trying to help. here is another pic of her so you can see it was only the photo.

 

[zach N houdan]

that is what the hatchery had sent us was the lemon blue and birchen old english she is gust really dark for the standard color. she is blue. but thanks for trying to help. here is another pic of her so you can see it was only the photo.

yes she is lemon blue just from the other photo it looked black not blue to me sorry

 

[championsumatra]

That is ok.

 

[gallo4319]

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Hello everyone, my name Stephen and I'm new to BYC but not new to chickens. I bought my first Sumatras over 10 years ago but I've let them do their own thing until recently when I decided I should spend the time to shape them up a bit. Here are 2 photos (taken with my phone) of the best of last years roosters that I am planning to pair with the best of some Murray Mcmurray hens I bought this year. I chose this first photo to show his yellow feet and "pheasant like" look, and the second below shows off his profile, only the last tail feather touches the ground when he's standing alert. My rooster has 5 spurs on each leg where the hatchery birds have only 1, but the Murray Mcmurray birds have nicer heads and darker faces so we'll see how things go. I plan on breeding toward APA's standards but my personal feeling is Sumatras should be very pheasant like with long narrow bodies, long legs and long horizontal tails; basically pheasant chickens. So that's a bit about me and (my Sumatras mostly) I hope to chime in every so often, and if anyone has any questions or constructive criticisms regarding either my birds or the Mcmurray's birds I've bought feel free!

That's how I feel about Sumatra a pheasant chicken

a chicken with long tail less saddle but enough to make them look like a hybrid This yoko has a more pheasant appearance than some Sumatra now in days

 

[gallo4319]

some cockerels I had from a project .

 

[championsumatra]

If you are breeding to the standard it dose not say pheasant like it will say that if it where true. If you read the standard more carefully and not read what is on the internet. You will see what I am talking about. Sumatra's where admitted to the standard in 1883 that was over a hundred years ago you can't expect things not to change a little bit over time.. we have written a lot of standards sense them...

that is just the way our culture is we change things so much over time.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

some cockerels I had from a project .

I can see the game influence in the cock on the top pic.
The second cock seems to look heavier/broader in the body
but that may be just the angle of the pic........nice birds.