The Wyandotte Thread

[LittleMissPurdy]

*DMRippy & Chickenhill..thank you...Ive got alot of reading to do!

I appreciate the shared wisdom...

 

[Chickenhill]

This is a GREAT BOOK and a MUST READ for Wyandotte breeders

http://archive.org/details/wyandottestandar00nour

There is also one for Plymouth Rocks too..... WAY better than a reg SOP. This is a whole book of SOP of Wyandottes

BTW the pics above are in this book.

Do you know of any other books dedicated to Wyandottes out there in cyberland?

There is another free book on Silver Laced Here http://bantamclub.com/PDF/wyandottessilver00wall.pdf

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: No I just found that one and the Plymouth Rocks while looking up some old SOP. I will check that out THANKS!

 

[dracoe19]

Thanks for all the info! huge help in understanding wyandottes even more.

@Bleenie - My wyandottes can be pretty sensitive. I haven't gotten eggs from them in so long because of the weather, changing coops and other stuff going on. The hurricane definitely didn't help either :/ . I'm hoping I can get some soon so I can be early with hatching. School caused me to be way behind the power curve last season.

 

[diannasunshine]

they are absolutely beautiful, and you have a wonderful talent capturing them on film!

 

[NYREDS]

Maybe this will help....Click on pic to enlarge

According to the Wandotte ''experts'' here this tail illustration is not of a proper tail as it is clearly V shaped, not ''horseshoe shaped''. As far as that goes ''horseshoe shaped'' is a description of a Wyandotte tail I have seen here on BYC & nowhere else.
The V shaped tail illustrated above is, of course, the proper tail shape for a Wyandotte.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: thanks for those images... they showed much more clearly what i was trying to describe, with my not-so-great camera. 8)

it seems my 3 breeds of choice are so drastically different in overall shape. from the long/low barge-shaped dorkings to the super-fluffball cochins, the wyandotte seems to be somewhere in the middle. my breed choices had nothing to do with shape and everything to do with personality btw... it's hard to say who's the best. the cochin has been my favorite for going on 20 years, the dorking going on 2 years and wyandottes are new to me, but all equally awesome in personality and temperament.

 

[dracoe19]

The horse shoe shape bust be Foleys interpretation of the SOP. I hadn't heard about that kind of tail until a met him and just figured I should breed toward it since he was and he knows much more than I do.

 

[NanaKat]

Since we are disciussing type and tails,
My Columbian Wyandottes...I bought some of a friends breeder hens and his roo when he was getting out of breeding and showing large fowl. The current roo in the photo was a cockerel I had purchased earlier and is the son of his Rooster. He told me to keep my roo and get rid of his. The Blue Wyandotte in the picture is a girl I'm using to breed the Blue Columbian.


Nice edging on tail feathers on this pullet, Daughter of my Roo Beau and one of the breeders hens.




Rooster another shot...he was molting in this picture so his tail has lost some of the fullness


The hens


Blue Columbian project pullet


I no longer have these Blue Lace Red Wyandottes They were breeder birds and the rooster was huge!


Here we come


here we go

 

[Countrypunk92]

His slw and partridge(what he mainly shows) do not have bunny tails. The roosters are supposed to have a rounded tail.