The Wyandotte Thread

[Duramaxgirl]

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Yes its true.

 

[WyandotteTX]

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Yes its true.

It is true, but most breeders(notice I said most, not all) will usually cull them pretty early. Of course I am only speaking about show quality/breeder quality birds. If you are raising them for backyard layers they will be just fine.
The more the line has used single comb birds the more chance you have of hatching single comb birds. If you dont breed from it, it will go away for the most part.

 

[Harris5]

Does anyone have pictures of what to look for in a nice type Wyandotte tail on chicks as it grows in?

 

[OSUman]

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Check this out http://www.wyandottebreedersofamerica.net/wyandottestandard.htm

 

[sjarvis00]

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Yes its true.

It is true, but most breeders(notice I said most, not all) will usually cull them pretty early. Of course I am only speaking about show quality/breeder quality birds. If you are raising them for backyard layers they will be just fine.
The more the line has used single comb birds the more chance you have of hatching single comb birds. If you dont breed from it, it will go away for the most part.

Most lines of wyandotte will produce some single comb offspring on occassion, It can be culled out over many generations. The rose comb is dominant to the single comb so a bird carrying both genes will have a rose comb the single combed offspring carry two copies of teh gene for single comb and should be culled at hatch and not used in breeding programs. It is very hard to know if your line(s) carry single combed traits as they alomost always masked, test matings are the only method to know for certain.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

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Very cute! They all look splash to me. Nice incubator

 

[franklinchickens]

Have no idea how these relate to any breed standards, but this is our hen, Bob, at about 4 1/2 months.

And Hootie at the same age:

They've filled out quite a bit since then but it's been harder to get them to pose for us!

 

[InviteTanner]

I'm sure this is mentioned in here, but I don't have time to read so many pages for the answer...how old is a wyandotte when they're what they're going to be, and you can feel safe to cull based on type, feathering, etc.?

 

[Matt1616]

I have been told a year and a half by some reputable breeders. I'm sure you can make some obvious culls much earlier but as far as show/breeder stock you have to wait a good while.

 

[colby318]

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Just like a blue eyed baby out of a family of brown eyed people. Then you found out your great grandfather had blue eyes and your spouse's grandmother had blue eyes. It's recessive I believe.