Sumatra Thread!

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

Sounds good. Any time.any of you need a tip just ask. A and would love to have you stop by.
Yep I work around 10 hours at work. Then takes about 2 hours to feed up and an hour or two each night on emails. Them the weekends are pen cleaning and building. Kinda wore out by the end of summer haha

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Sounds good. Any time.any of you need a tip just ask. A and would love to have you stop by.
Yep I work around 10 hours at work. Then takes about 2 hours to feed up and an hour or two each night on emails. Them the weekends are pen cleaning and building. Kinda wore out by the end of summer haha

You need a kid to help you out. Mine are grown but now I'm training
those grandbabies about chores........helpful little critters.....at times.

If I get a chance to see that much eye candy I would be in heaven......
and in trouble with DH

 

[ramirezframing]

I thought I stayed busy. About how many birds do you have Boggybottoms (I know your not suppose to count bantams when doing chicken math

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I do lakenvelders, I have noticed that the hens in the USA do not get a solid black head/neck like the roosters do, but have seen overseas that the hens do get a solid black head/neck. How would you go about fixing that?

 

[bhawk78]

What colors can you get out of a blue to blue sumatras?

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

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What colors can you get out of a blue to blue sumatras?

You could get blue, black or splash.

 

[ramirezframing]

Coopscoop is right, from a blue to blue mating you get black, blue, and splash offspring.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

You need a kid to help you out. Mine are grown but now I'm training
those grandbabies about chores........helpful little critters.....at times.

If I get a chance to see that much eye candy I would be in heaven......
and in trouble with DH

haha yep we need a few here. My wife has recently got the fever to start helping feed which has been a great help, but 2-3 kids would be great, I might could relax a bit then !!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I thought I stayed busy. About how many birds do you have Boggybottoms (I know your not suppose to count bantams when doing chicken math

)


I do lakenvelders, I have noticed that the hens in the USA do not get a solid black head/neck like the roosters do, but have seen overseas that the hens do get a solid black head/neck. How would you go about fixing that?

oh God, at least a thousand breeders, and about that many still growing out that I have culled down to at this point in the year, but still have 8 bators going too.

on the lakenvelders, only way to fix that is just by selection and heavy breedings. Pick and cull hard for the darkest solid heads on the hens, as well as the males. pick and choose the best off those and continue to repeat the process. An import would be a great thing to do too if you found someone who had some from the European lines. They have centuries of work into their birds, so often they look a lot different that USA stock. It's all in the genetics of the birds though, so the only way to fix something like that is strict selective breeding for those traits.
I would totally mess up the bird, but a black crested white polish may help blacken up the head too, of course that'd open a new can of worms to fix then though

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

There are some gorgeous 'wildfarbig' sumatra pics on the facebook group, I would love to have those!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

There are some gorgeous 'wildfarbig' sumatra pics on the facebook group, I would love to have those!

I must have missed seeing those.........now I'm going to
have to look back and find them......thanks for the heads up.