The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[MysteryChicken]

She has more white, but the chests look somewhat similar. Not sure what dad passed on though to change the pattern to this
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Her color pattern is different. Looks like a weird mix/mash of partridge X incomplete Spangling.

 

[MysteryChicken]

How does one breed out shafting? Doesnt all chickens have shafting?

Are you talking about the stippling/line on the shafts?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Are you talking about the stippling/line on the shafts?
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I dont know but so many people was telling me i need to not breed ones with shafting like this hen

which im assuming is the line in the feathers

 

[MysteryChicken]

I dont know but so many people was telling me i need to not breed ones with shafting like this hen View attachment 3292715which im assuming is the line in the feathers

Are you breeding for show? If not I wouldn't worry about it.

I was just looking online at Show Quality Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, & all seem to have that stippling, some less prominent then others. I think it just has to do with the Red coloration.

 

[NatJ]

Are you talking about the stippling/line on the shafts?

I was just looking online at Show Quality Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, & all seem to have that stippling, some less prominent then others. I think it just has to do with the Red coloration.

Shafting and stippling seem to be different things.

Some definitions copied from an article on this site:

"Shafting... is simply where the feather shaft is one color and the body (vane) of the feather is another."

"stippling, which appears as a very small pattern of dots on the surface of a feather"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/my-feather-anatomy-guide.63572/

 

[MysteryChicken]

Shafting and stippling seem to be different things.

Some definitions copied from an article on this site:

"Shafting... is simply where the feather shaft is one color and the body (vane) of the feather is another."

"stippling, which appears as a very small pattern of dots on the surface of a feather"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/my-feather-anatomy-guide.63572/

Weird, cause a few years ago someone commented on one of my Orpingtons about stippling, & the only thing was visible on the breasts was the shaft which were just a tad bit lighter then the rest of the feathers.

I know the anatomy of a feather, thanks though.

 

[Geena]

I believe my one hen has both shafting and stippling, right?

 

[3KillerBs]

I believe my one hen has both shafting and stippling, right?
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I understand why it's undesirable in terms of breeding proper, uniform color patterns, but it certainly creates an attractive bird.

 

[NatJ]

Weird, cause a few years ago someone commented on one of my Orpingtons about stippling, & the only thing was visible on the breasts was the shaft which were just a tad bit lighter then the rest of the feathers.

Then maybe that person was wrong?

I know the anatomy of a feather, thanks though.

That was the article I quoted from, so I put in the link in case anyone (you or otherwise) wanted to read anything else in it.

 

[Geena]

I understand why it's undesirable in terms of breeding proper, uniform color patterns, but it certainly creates an attractive bird.

It is pretty, but you can see how it detracts from the lacing and makes it rather messy looking.