The Wyandotte Thread

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

I love wyandottes! they are so pretty, i may have to get some

 

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

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aww thats so cute...my silkie sits on my dog too, but shes not a little chick

 

[CelticMoon1]

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Are all European birds that light? What part of Europe are they from? Last ?, I promise, on this thread, how hard is it to take birds from country to country?

Celtic is from Norway I believe.

That's right Katy

As far as I know all European partridges have light base color, everyone I've seen are light. I seem to remember reading somewhere that base color varies from continent to continent, some continents have light some have dark.
As for taking birds from country to country, LEGALLY, it's extremely difficult. I do believe that after the AI scare US closed its borders as far as poultry goes - both import and export

(I would have loved to have some of Katy's imported here..

) Even should it be possible you need all kinds of certificates from the vet stating that flock of origin is healthy and so on - there's HEAPS of paperwork!

 

[Bantimna]

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Mine go broody pretty frequently.

Very cold tolerant.....I live in Kansas and we get hot (high 90s-low 100s) and humid in the summer. As long as they've got shade and water mine have done fine.

Very calm and friendly.

My breeds are penned seperate, but when they're young and together in the grow out pens they've always gotten along fine with my other breeds.

That answers all my qeustions for now.......Thank you

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

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So far I know that the dunlaced are just in bantam form. The dun gene is like blue, breed two dun together and you get 50% dun, 25% khaki (splash), and 25% black. True chocolate is sexlinked and I dont know much other than that.

I started with LF SLW's and BLR's then got partridge bantams, sold the largefowl. After the partridge I got whites. Then got a group of solid duns and some silver laced. Then some blacks to breed to the dun to get better leg color. We also worked on barred bantams when we got a barred pullet out of the whites. Somewhere in there we got a couple BLR bantam hens. All of our dunlaced and silver laced are decendants of one rooster, the founding sire here. We bred him to the BLR's and got more SLW's to breed with him and the dunlaced to get better type. It was a blast working with them.

Right now I dont have any wyandottes but I have tons of breeding plans. Eventually I want to make dun columbian and many many other colors. So many possibilities!

 

[HatTrickSilkies]

Bantam Blue Laced Red Cockerel

~ Nikki

 

[roocrazy]

p0st AwAy!!!!!!!






~Ju$T!n

 

[Katy]

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Cute roo, but I've never seen any chickens with as floppy of ears as those in the second picture!!

 

[Attack Chicken]

These are such pretty birds! Not that I don't like my wyans (I love them tons!) but my wyans suck. My one girl BB is trying to go broody but I don't want her hatching nonSQ chicks, I can't even find my other 2 maybe 3 chicks a home...

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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So far I know that the dunlaced are just in bantam form. The dun gene is like blue, breed two dun together and you get 50% dun, 25% khaki (splash), and 25% black. True chocolate is sexlinked and I dont know much other than that.

I started with LF SLW's and BLR's then got partridge bantams, sold the largefowl. After the partridge I got whites. Then got a group of solid duns and some silver laced. Then some blacks to breed to the dun to get better leg color. We also worked on barred bantams when we got a barred pullet out of the whites. Somewhere in there we got a couple BLR bantam hens. All of our dunlaced and silver laced are decendants of one rooster, the founding sire here. We bred him to the BLR's and got more SLW's to breed with him and the dunlaced to get better type. It was a blast working with them.

Right now I dont have any wyandottes but I have tons of breeding plans. Eventually I want to make dun columbian and many many other colors. So many possibilities!

any one know where i can get some dun or dunlaced ???