Where do I go to learn this chicken language?

[JustMandy]

I'm new

I have caught the chicken bug and want more, MORE I SAY!! Right now I have your run of the mill back yard flock of cross breeds.

I'd like fancier breeds and I'd like to breed them but don't know these words y'all use! What's a rose comb? What color is willow? I know there's questions I don't even know to ask.

What book or site do you reccomend for me to learn (besides here, of course!!)

 

[Illia]

Tell you the truth, I knew VERY little about chickens just a year ago. . . And it was simply going through this forum, reading a lot, getting interested in different breeds, and even looking through FeatherSite that got me to all what I know today. Eventually things will catch on.

For starters, a rose comb looks like this:

It is either broad and flat or rounded, and points out in the back, but with small lumps running along it.

Willow is a faint greenish color, usually referring to things like "willow legs" found on Araucanas.

Oh, and

 

[TK Poultry]

I'd pick up the Storey Guide's at TSC. You will learn alot just lurking on the forum. I've only bred chickens and ducks for a year before that I knew nothing. I basically did the same thing Illia did. I think that is the recipe for sucess. It might take you a bit to find a breed that works but when a breed does click its like a light bulb went off and you feel like you've had ducks and chickens all of your life

 

[Chris09]

Try this -
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=343605
I got a ton of stuff in there..

Chris

 

[JustMandy]

Fantastic. I'm great at lurking.

Wow, Chris, thanks! That is a very full post!

 

[kla37]

Beware the addiction and becoming a victim of chicken math.........

Welcome! You'll learn A LOT just by perusing this site. And you'll get addicted to it too-fast. It's worse than FB.

 

[Chris09]

Quote:
Thank You...
I have some more to add to it but it is a work in progress..

Chris

 

[kla37]

Also, a great starter book that I loved is "Chickens for Dummies." Aptly named for me, and began feeding my obsession.

 

[Chris09]

JustMandy,

Willow:
• The dusty yellowish green color found on the shanks, feet and toes of some breeds and varieties of some fowl.

Chris

 

[joebryant]

Check out Rosetta Stone; seems like I read someplace that they have a course in Chickenese (or something like that).