The Old Folks Home

[tnspursfan09]

I won that tea set at a silent auction a few years ago and we use it often. I'm a coffe drinker, though...like my tea iced and sweet, but who can resist a tea party? Today our "sandwiches" were peanut butter crackers.

 

[chickadoodles]

I won that tea set at a silent auction a few years ago and we use it often. I'm a coffe drinker, though...like my tea iced and sweet, but who can resist a tea party? Today our "sandwiches" were peanut butter crackers.

How fun

 

[insanity]

I have noticed that chickens don't really come with pedigrees not even from high end breeders. Why? Any animal I have bred in the past did (rabbits,dogs,cows,) Just curious.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG what a beautiful cat especially her facial markings. She has good taste in fabrics too - must appreciate flannel.

I don't see anything wrong with that calendar but, just the same I'm dying to see a picture of BF. Just put a fig leaf over anything that attracts too much attention.

 

[ozexpat]

I have noticed that chickens don't really come with pedigrees not even from high end breeders. Why? Any animal I have bred in the past did (rabbits,dogs,cows,) Just curious.

chickens are bred to a type or standard.

you could make your own from cross breeding. they are a breed if they look like the breed

 

[insanity]

chickens are bred to a type or standard. 

you could make your own from cross breeding. they are a breed if they look like the breed

So a SS x SFH would be a SFH if it met the standard?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG what a beautiful cat especially her facial markings. She has good taste in fabrics too - must appreciate flannel.

I don't see anything wrong with that calendar but, just the same I'm dying to see a picture of BF. Just put a fig leaf over anything that attracts too much attention.

Yes, Sophie has good taste in things that are warm and soft. Like flannel, pillows, laps.



This is Chris a couple years ago. We really don't take photos of each other often. He pretty much looks the same now, just more wrinkles and some greying.

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ozexpat

chickens are bred to a type or standard.

you could make your own from cross breeding. they are a breed if they look like the breed
So a SS x SFH would be a SFH if it met the standard?

Actually, things like this are done on purpose to fix a fault or improve a breed to Standard. It is a form of out crossing. As an example, Langshans are sometimes crossed into Australorps to correct color and or curve. The next generations are then culled to get the flock back to Australorp standards.

Chickens are different from other Show Animals for sure.

I am very happy you asked this here! Us old folks are able to discuss stuff like this.

 

[Wisher1000]

I have a Silver Campine X EE that I am considering crossing with my Urch birds. She is colored like a SC only has way more white than she is supposed to have. The Urch line has some issues with their backs being too narrow and being somewhat convex, but that little hen has the broadest, flattest back you have ever seen. I am thinking that if I breed her with the Urch cock, some of the offspring may have her back. Then I would take those back to their father and see what will happen. Also, if there are some cockerals produced that have nice backs, I could take them back to the Urch hens and see what that produces!

 

[ozexpat]

Actually, things like this are done on purpose to fix a fault or improve a breed to Standard. It is a form of out crossing. As an example, Langshans are sometimes crossed into Australorps to correct color and or curve. The next generations are then culled to get the flock back to Australorp standards.

Chickens are different from other Show Animals for sure.

I am very happy you asked this here! Us old folks are able to discuss stuff like this.

my answer was very simplified but essentally correct. It may be hard to get a ss x sfh to look like an sfh but it could be possible to improve, say the speckling, by crossing with a ss then crossing back the offspring a few generations with pure sfh to return to standard shapes but better feather pattern.

many breeds in usa have limited genetic stock.

ron is way more of a resource