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Post by henthymes on May 2, 2012 13:34:59 GMT -5
Wondering if it's possible to get another thread/sub-board under the "colors" sections for all those non-standard color bantams that people have and/or may be working on to be able to post in?? TIA  |
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Post by henthymes on May 2, 2012 13:45:30 GMT -5
In the mood and took a few photos today so I thought I would share some of my bantams growing out. Young cuckoo's two pullets & three cockerels (legs are white, flash made them look yellowish)   Bantam Lavs - have several sizes growing out in various pens.    Several lemon cuckoo's in the brooders now, just no pics yet.  |
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Post by lildinkem on May 3, 2012 15:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by Fred Kokke on Oct 13, 2012 16:31:14 GMT -5
 Picture of Hailey playing with her chick |
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Post by Fred Kokke on Oct 13, 2012 16:41:41 GMT -5
By the way we think that this chick will be a chocolate
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Post by Jon Alden on Oct 13, 2012 23:53:07 GMT -5
I just considered all of the "Other Colors" as project varieties
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Post by d12chandler on Oct 14, 2012 10:56:28 GMT -5
Chickengramps, looks like you have it going on. It's so nice to see young folks liking birds. They are the future of our hobby.
don
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Post by Jon Alden on Oct 14, 2012 11:50:11 GMT -5
Bill you should cross that Col to some nice Buffs, might be able to get some good looking Buff Columbians. And columbians eventually. I do not have bantams but do have some different looking birds. I am now getting Cuckoos from my Buff Sport cock when taken to my Black hens. MAYBE I should take him to some Buff hens to get Lemons?    Junior is his son  I aksed Krys IF in fact this is a Columbian. She agreed with Gayle and thinks it is.  |
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Post by lildinkem on Oct 15, 2012 19:26:53 GMT -5
John I do have a Buff Columbian pullet as well. She has better type and good size. For now I am limiting myself to only breeding and raising up the standard varieties of Orps. I will use the Brown Red cock that I call Harold (named after one of our UOC's legends Harry Shaffer) again though. I hatched out several from him to just see IF he did throw his Brown Red gene. And yes he does. I have 3 Brown Red cockerels growing out. What I like about them is their type and broad width feathers. And they will throw an all Black pullet 100% of the time and throw some all Black cockerels around 25 % of the time. So, I can see using him or his offspring some more this coming season. This past season I hatched MAYBE a dozen from him. but will now try and use him some more for the future.  |
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Post by lildinkem on Dec 15, 2012 17:27:40 GMT -5
Bantam Dun Orpington 7 month old pullet  |
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Post by Jon Alden on Dec 15, 2012 22:37:00 GMT -5
I wonder what you get when you cross a Dun with a Chocolate.....
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Post by lildinkem on Dec 16, 2012 10:15:07 GMT -5
I wonder what you get when you cross a Dun with a Chocolate..... Good question Jon. There is a Dun Khaki thread on BYC that has a couple of the better geneticists posting regularly. One is Marvin from Nicaragua. His BYC handle is "nicalandia". In PM's between he and I, he said to make the "MAUVE" variety one needs both Dun and Choc. IF you want to make Muave in Bantam she would come in handy. Far as her toes go, Steve Jones helped Fred out in his desicion of who to cull of his "Britts Buffs". As you may know Steve is very familiar with that line, and Steve was paid two trios of Fred's Buffs, as long as they had croaked toes. Croaked toes is a quick easy fix according to Steve. So there is very little reason to not use her in a project. |
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Post by aveca on Dec 16, 2012 19:04:01 GMT -5
B2 vitamins in breeding hens seriously helps that.. and very young birds....it can be as simple as throwing a little stale bread that is fortified by bread Co's in that breeding pen.. all breads are b2 Fortified.and to babies.. but just a little..or vit sups..it .crooked toes will not show up in next generation unless it is hereditary.. my vet from cornell works with me ..she was working with a show barn north of here had some show up crooked, after boosting b2 it disappeared in next generation. Some birds just need a little extra.in rarer cases, congenital.
It's easy to find in vet sites search vitamin b2 deficiency and crooked toe.
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