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Time has come to cull cockerels and I need help. I lost my one SLW pullet this morning so that leaves me with 3 GLW pullets, 1 GLW cockerel and 3 SLW cockerels. The GLW cockerel will stay unless he gets mean because I have a plan. My dilemma is the SLW cockerels. I want to keep my best one and I have a front runner, but I need advice from people that have been doing this a while. I just started in chickens this summer. It is my understanding that if I breed GLWxSLW I will get sex linked chicks. Is this right? I want to keep the best SLW to breed to my GLW pullets to improve them. I can then breed my GLW cockerel to those SLW pullets to get more GLW pullets. Is my thinking off? Will I have color bleed through on either variety? The SLW are 5 months and all the GLW are 7 months.


#1

#2



#3



GLW cockerel



And two pullets

 
I am by no means an expert but with your slw I would go with #2 from what I can see, it seems his type is the closest to what I look for, at least at the moment. #1 is really close too because it seems he has better pattern. If it were me #3 would go asap, but I would keep #1 and 2 until I they were about a year of age. Wyandottes take awhile to type out fully and any culling done on type at this point would be miss leading. As far as the glw, any that you see are usually hatchery; because it's just so hard to find "good" goldens. I wish there were more people interested in glw. They are the most beautiful of the laced wyandottes IMHO. I dont know of the crossing. Don't think I've ever heard of someone doing that. At any rate, I hoped i help a little, but I'm certain that I made things only that much more confusing. :D

p.s. sorry if my grammer is less than intelligible, been doing calculus and programming homework for most of the day, and my brain is pretty much shot.

God bless,
Tyler.
 
chickenfarmer1231 said:
I am by no means an expert but with your slw I would go with #2 from what I can see, it seems his type is the closest to what I look for, at least at the moment. #1 is really close too because it seems he has better pattern. If it were me #3 would go asap, but I would keep #1 and 2 until I they were about a year of age. Wyandottes take awhile to type out fully and any culling done on type at this point would be miss leading. As far as the glw, any that you see are usually hatchery; because it's just so hard to find "good" goldens. I wish there were more people interested in glw. They are the most beautiful of the laced wyandottes IMHO. I dont know of the crossing. Don't think I've ever heard of someone doing that. At any rate, I hoped i help a little, but I'm certain that I made things only that much more confusing. :D

p.s. sorry if my grammer is less than intelligible, been doing calculus and programming homework for most of the day, and my brain is pretty much shot.

God bless,
Tyler.
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I agree, #2 roo looks better to me than the others, but if you are going to breed the GL, then I'd keep your GL roo.
 
chickenfarmer1231 said:
I am by no means an expert but with your slw I would go with #2 from what I can see, it seems his type is the closest to what I look for, at least at the moment. #1 is really close too because it seems he has better pattern. If it were me #3 would go asap, but I would keep #1 and 2 until I they were about a year of age. Wyandottes take awhile to type out fully and any culling done on type at this point would be miss leading. As far as the glw, any that you see are usually hatchery; because it's just so hard to find "good" goldens. I wish there were more people interested in glw. They are the most beautiful of the laced wyandottes IMHO. I dont know of the crossing. Don't think I've ever heard of someone doing that. At any rate, I hoped i help a little, but I'm certain that I made things only that much more confusing. :D

p.s. sorry if my grammer is less than intelligible, been doing calculus and programming homework for most of the day, and my brain is pretty much shot.

God bless,
Tyler.
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brian knox (poultry judge) breeds them. not sure if he'll sell eggs or not. surgarhill poultry is the name of his farm.in NH

chickenfarmer1231 said:
I looked and there weren't any bantam silvers, but there are other bantam varieties on the Wyandotte breeders thread. Personaly I would go with partridge from peakybeaky. I personally love the partridge and peakybeaky is very pleasant to deal with. heres the link to the thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/613065/2012-wyandotte-breeders-thread/70#post_8466306

Hope this helps! :)

God bless,
Tyler.
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Good luck :) We just had a test batch of bantam partridge eggs hatch and got 4 new little ones. They are cute little buggers.
Duramaxgirl said:
I have 3 partridge wyandotte babies in my hatcher! And another one pipping! Yay so grows the obsession!
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