Throw Back Project.

[MysteryChicken]

Hi. I know nothing about breeding and gentetics. I am here to watch.
So your chicken will lay green eggs?

The new breed I want to create will lay brown to pastel green. One reason I'm using Easter Egger for the blue egg gene.

Gonna use both an EE rooster that looks part Gamefowl, & an EE hen to keep the blue egg gene strong.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Breeds purpose: Meat/Eggs/Show/Free Ranging, Flock Protectors. Pretty much.

Egg size: Large to Jumbo. Smallish eggs maybe possible.

Clean Legged

Multi Spurred Males, & Spurred Females.

Walnut comb

White Skin is preferred

Bearded, & unbearded.

Egg color: Brown, or Pastel Green.

Feather type: Tight, or moderately hard. Long to moderately long.


Barred Colors: Red, Buff, Blue, Splash, Black, Calico/Splash Partridge, Duckwing, Partridge, Blue Partridge, Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, Splash Wheaten, Gold Wheaten, White, Birchen.

I have no LF breeds with mottling, so that pattern won't be added.


Personality: Active, Docile, Good foragers.


Weight Range: Cock: 9lbs, Rooster: 11-15+lbs, Pullet: 8-9lbs, Hen: 10-14+lbs


Butcher Weight: Determined by person, nobody wants the same sized bird on the table.


Maturity Speed: Moderate, 6-12 months to mature. Fills out decently if smaller size is wanted.


Preferred way of escape: Running, Speed/Endurance.


Wing Size: Short to moderate.

Leg length: Long


Neck Length: Long


Beak: Blunt

Broody

Body type: Sporty.

This pretty much sums everything up, with what I want. Complicated, but will be a fun challenge.

I did my best, at sketching the rooster. The tail maybe abit exaggerated, I didn't realize how long I made the tail until afterwards.



I didn't add the barring since that would be hard to include in the picture. The bird will look alot better in real life.View attachment 2807334

That's really cool. Just wondering what a horned walnut is... My rooster has strange "tentacle growth" coming from the top of his walnut. Is that it?

 

[MysteryChicken]

That's really cool. Just wondering what a horned walnut is... My rooster has strange "tentacle growth" coming from the top of his walnut. Is that it?

True Walnuts have horns.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Cushion/Strawberry is a walnut with the smooth gene.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The SQ Silkies have a Smooth pea comb, it's not a true walnut comb.

 

[NatJ]

The SQ Silkies have a Smooth pea comb, it's not a true walnut comb.

Um, do you have a source for that?

I've read the opposite: that Silkies should always have the rose comb gene, but that they should not have the pea comb gene, and thus not a true walnut comb.

(When a chicken has two copies of pea comb, the wattles are much smaller than on other chickens. Because Silkies with no beards are supposed to have visible wattles, they should NOT be pure for pea comb.)

 

[MysteryChicken]

Um, do you have a source for that?

I've read the opposite: that Silkies should always have the rose comb gene, but that they should not have the pea comb gene, and thus not a true walnut comb.

(When a chicken has two copies of pea comb, the wattles are much smaller than on other chickens. Because Silkies with no beards are supposed to have visible wattles, they should NOT be pure for pea comb.)

I may have got it mixed up, but I can look back again. I woke up off, & on last night. My brain is a bit tired.

 

[NatJ]

I may have got it mixed up, but I can look back again. I woke up off, & on last night. My brain is a bit tired.

This is the most detailed article I've found about Silkie combs:
www.chickencolours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-Wattles-lowres.pdf

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is the most detailed article I've found about Silkie combs:
www.chickencolours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-Wattles-lowres.pdf

http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=98285&page=1

Here's my link.

My SQ silkies seem too be Modified Pea since they lack wattles, & have a Dulap instead.

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is the most detailed article I've found about Silkie combs:
www.chickencolours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/What-Wattles-lowres.pdf

I'll look at that later, when I'm more awake.