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I don't have any personal experience raising partridge. Is the brassy undesirable?
ps. I'm slowly building my flock of black wyandottes. I think next year I'll add buffs, also.
So, with parti-colored birds, like SL, GL, Partridge and Silver Pencilled, etc., the male and female have distinct but related patterns. When the SOP was developed, many of the varieties were just being established. The goal was to breed the most beautiful birds possible and so, the writers came up with a standard that they thought was perfect.
If we look at Partridge/SP as an example (since that what I have), the breast color of the male should be black with no or very little red/white(SP). In a hen, the breast should be well laced with full lacing and closed lacing: No solid colors! Actually, if you mate a male with no red in the breast, it is more difficult to get excellent lacing, even if you use well-laced females. Sure, if you hatch 200, you'll find a handful that you like, but if you used a male like the one in the picture, you might find 30-50 instead of 5-10 that you like.
Lets use hackle color as a further example. The hackle of the male should be solid black with a mahogany edge. The female should be laced. If you have solid hackles in the females, they will throw solid hackled males. Unfortunately, they will not throw as nicely laced of females as you would like. If you have a male with some off color in the hackles, that could translate to better hackles in the females, but he is not as show quality as you would like.
From this comes the idea of "double mating." That is where you use a male that is excellent with females that compliment his color but themselves do not have excellent female color. You use females with excellent color with a male that compliments them but actually looks like the male in the pic.
With a little bigger pic, you can see the lacing all over him better. Look at the male in bottom pic. His breast is black and his wings are solid colored. Alternatively, the Pullet breeding male is laced in the breast, wings and even the saddle.
How was that? Edumacated? BTW, if you would like some personal experience, something could be arranged...
Educate me...
I don't have any personal experience raising partridge. Is the brassy undesirable?
ps. I'm slowly building my flock of black wyandottes. I think next year I'll add buffs, also.
So, with parti-colored birds, like SL, GL, Partridge and Silver Pencilled, etc., the male and female have distinct but related patterns. When the SOP was developed, many of the varieties were just being established. The goal was to breed the most beautiful birds possible and so, the writers came up with a standard that they thought was perfect.
If we look at Partridge/SP as an example (since that what I have), the breast color of the male should be black with no or very little red/white(SP). In a hen, the breast should be well laced with full lacing and closed lacing: No solid colors! Actually, if you mate a male with no red in the breast, it is more difficult to get excellent lacing, even if you use well-laced females. Sure, if you hatch 200, you'll find a handful that you like, but if you used a male like the one in the picture, you might find 30-50 instead of 5-10 that you like.
Lets use hackle color as a further example. The hackle of the male should be solid black with a mahogany edge. The female should be laced. If you have solid hackles in the females, they will throw solid hackled males. Unfortunately, they will not throw as nicely laced of females as you would like. If you have a male with some off color in the hackles, that could translate to better hackles in the females, but he is not as show quality as you would like.
From this comes the idea of "double mating." That is where you use a male that is excellent with females that compliment his color but themselves do not have excellent female color. You use females with excellent color with a male that compliments them but actually looks like the male in the pic.
With a little bigger pic, you can see the lacing all over him better. Look at the male in bottom pic. His breast is black and his wings are solid colored. Alternatively, the Pullet breeding male is laced in the breast, wings and even the saddle.
How was that? Edumacated? BTW, if you would like some personal experience, something could be arranged...
