White Sultans.... pics please!

[omahalostpunk]

I do plan to get a copy of the SOP. I will check out those groups, and find out a bit more about breeding. I'm guessing there is a lot to it. Nothing every seems to be as easy as I think it is, and I tend to jump in head first to most things. More often than not I get bit for it. I hope to show a bird or two next year at the county fair off of what I get from the hatcheries. Just to get a feel for how a show goes and to start being able to tell what I should be looking for in my birds.

Thanks for the imformation BTW

 

[tnchickenut]

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No problem... and diving in might be the way you learn best.... going to shows and getting "your feed wet" will give you a chance to meet others and learn from them. Finding a "old timer" would be perfect... they can help you more than any book, usually.

And, yes, the SOP and the APA are musts if you are serious about breeding and showing. It would be like raising show dogs and not being part of the AKC.

Hatchery stock isn't a complete no-no... just that it takes more time, money, and effort to get the blue ribbons with them. You have more work to do. If you buy stock from a good breeder, then they have done alot of the work for you.

 

[awesomefowl]

now I want a sultan!!!

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

Our Sultan is 2 weeks old and we were wondering if someone could help with it's sex. Can't tell if a roo or hen...
I am new here and can't remember how to add pics to posts, hope it works...

 

[tnchickenut]

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I just want to hug it and squeeze it and name it george! lol... (remember the bugs bunny and yetti cartoons)

 

[Schultz]

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Sorry, I believe it is too soon to tell for your bird. That is by site anyways, there is always vent sexing but I don't know many people that can do this. I know I've tryed and failed. LOL! I have six 10 week olds and it's still a bit hard to tell. I might post pics of them so that people that have raised them longer than I can help me determine as well. I know that it has to do partly with their crests. The females have a tighter, rounder crest where as males have a pointyer more rockstar look to them just like the Polish. I have had one attempt a crow so he was pretty easy.

 

[chickenzoo]

Love my Sultans ! They have neat personalities and are sweet. Will be selling hatching eggs again when it cools off here.

I'm also working on colored Sultans for fun.

I also take my cull Sultans and put them over Silkies and make Sulties..... very adorable mix chickens.

 

[Schultz]

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I know that it might be fun for some and no disrespect to you but why would you want to mess around with mixing the genes of such a rare and coveted breed?

 

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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I just want to hug it and squeeze it and name it george! lol... (remember the bugs bunny and yetti cartoons)

A Bugs Bunny Fan, yes I remember that cartoon.
The Sultan is my Moms and she plays with it once a day.
I have 2 Plymouth Rocks 1 is real friendly the other not as much.
My Dad has 2 Partridge Cochins, and his humor got in the way of their names; Bar-b and Que...

Here's a pic of all them at 2 wk old.

 

[chickenzoo]

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I know that it might be fun for some and no disrespect to you but why would you want to mess around with mixing the genes of such a rare and coveted breed?

None taken,

.........I keep my best Sultans pure, keeping a good type going. My culls,the ones that I can't use for breeding, would not have a purpose so instead of killing them like some breeders, I just use them for fun projects for myself. in fact, a lot of people fall in love with my Sulties and want to buy them. They know they are a cross, but they love how they look. If I hatch something out... I feel it is my responsibility to take care of it, I do not eat my own animals, just my choice, so I try to find good homes or a use for them in other ways. I trained many of my extra roos of many breeds to be employed as manure spreaders, hehe..... haven't touched a poo rake in months.....they see a tail go up and it's a chicken stampede