Sumatra Thread!

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

I am hoping to sweet talk ramirezframing out of a dun pullet to put with my blue cock this year.

 

[ramirezframing]

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I didn't realize that you kept the hens. Good luck with your side project, hope it goes smooth for you. Would love to hear about it if you ever want to share.

 

[ramirezframing]

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Still thinking of Jeremy's platinum he posted a while back I see .

 

[Regin]

I am still looking for a Black Sumatra Cockerel. Needs to be NPIP.

 

[ramirezframing]

You might try looking for sumatras at some of the shows.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Quote: LOL......platinum is all I could work on since it takes two duns for khaki and I have no duns

 

[jeremy]

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A close friend has them. He put them out to pasture & he's said they have thrived. Raised clutches of chicks, slept in the trees, became almost feral. But he hasn't lost a single Sumatra I gave him, & it's been about 2 years. He's not breeding, he just always loved the look of the birds. I miss them, especially the Duns. I never got around to breeding Dun together to produce Khaki, I still haven't seen the color in person... much to my dismay!

My side project that I'm working towards is a Dun/Khaki/Platinum bird that lays an olive egg. Sumatra type, clean shanked, smaller in stature, but not a bantam. Preferably with great egg production, & the ability to sit, brood, & rear chicks. I'm gathering the necessary "ingredients" this season to produce such a bird... ideally I'll have the first generation from the initial cross breeding on the ground later this year.

 

[jeremy]

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This guy?


Type was a bit off... but he gave me what I wanted, a rainbow mix of Sumatra offspring.




(There's a Blue OE pullet who was raised with the Sumatras in the pic above, the fat one in the foreground.)

 

[ramirezframing]

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A close friend has them. He put them out to pasture & he's said they have thrived. Raised clutches of chicks, slept in the trees, became almost feral. But he hasn't lost a single Sumatra I gave him, & it's been about 2 years. He's not breeding, he just always loved the look of the birds. I miss them, especially the Duns. I never got around to breeding Dun together to produce Khaki, I still haven't seen the color in person... much to my dismay!

My side project that I'm working towards is a Dun/Khaki/Platinum bird that lays an olive egg. Sumatra type, clean shanked, smaller in stature, but not a bantam. Preferably with great egg production, & the ability to sit, brood, & rear chicks. I'm gathering the necessary "ingredients" this season to produce such a bird... ideally I'll have the first generation from the initial cross breeding on the ground later this year.
Good luck getting your ingredients together, and hopefully you'll have lots of offspring on the ground running.

 

[ramirezframing]

What is everyone's breeding plans and hopes for this season?