The Wyandotte Thread

[chickd]

I have one she is a mix of a silver laced Cochin and a silver laced wyandotte
She is shy but I love her


Thank you

 

[Texasmja]

Her tail shape is awesome! I am working on nice tails like her's on everyone I keep.

 

[dracoe19]

I agree I lover her tail! I only got one kind of narrow tail out of the ones I kept. Can't wait to show her soon .

 

[arcountrychick]

Holy moly, dracoe19! Those are gorgeous SLWs! My heart just skipped a beat. I've got some eggs in the incubator that I got from someone who has some Foley birds so maybe I'll get some beauties but I doubt they'll measure up to yours.

 

[chickd]

I hav one that looks just like that they are lovely bird and I am vary much thinking your birds will be vary nice


Good luck

 

[Outrun Acres]

well, joe said initially he had problems with yellowing but was able to breed it out... i don't know whether it's dom or rec. white (dom i think) but i do know that his line also carries cuckoo (barring) discovered when he crossed out to silver grey to improve size and type. yeah pretty sure dominant, he said every now and then, very rarely now, he might get a throwback. that would only happen with recessive genes hiding for a while.

I haven't been on this thread in awhile and am in the process of catching up. I am pretty sure the yellow is worse in dominant whites. I have a Columbian Wyandotte rooster that I am 100% sure is a dominant white based on the crossbred hatches I have used him for. He has terrible yellowing along his topline. It's not very attractive. The only reason we are still using him is because he has good type and "table qualities." Any roosters we hatch from his line are going to be used for meat.

 

[WyandotteTX]

here is my silver penciled wyandottes and buff columbian in LF not bantam

Very nice male in the back! Those two females on each side of him look to be nice pullet breeders also. That is as big of a SP male as Ive seen, which a good thing.
Interesting with the Buff Columbians. Can you tell us more about that project?
John

 

[NanaKat]

Dracoe19, Beautiful birds! Love those girls. Congratulations on the score and looking forward to seeing chicks and ribbons.

 

[Bleenie]

For those of you working on projects, what do you do with chicks showing leakage? Do you cull hard for that or do you let them grow out a little first? I have one chick in particular that's already got some splash leakage... On a single feather, should I cull it or let it grow out before I decide? This is a cockeral chick.

 

[ki4got]

For those of you working on projects, what do you do with chicks showing leakage? Do you cull hard for that or do you let them grow out a little first? I have one chick in particular that's already got some splash leakage... On a single feather, should I cull it or let it grow out before I decide? This is a cockeral chick.

it would depend what color you're aiming for i would think... i'm working on creating a blue laced red bantam cochin, so i'll take whatever i can get that has good type and work on color later.

for any project, imo that should be the primary goal is to get type and all the genes in place that you need, and work on weeding out the odd colors once type is good.