Easy colours like black or white...........
LOL just teasin' ya Baron. I'm learning there are no easy colours! Unless you start with someone else's perfect birds! And even then........
Bantam Breeding Project: Mottled and Cuckoo and Partridge, Oh My!!
Bantam Breeding Project: Mottled and Cuckoo and Partridge, Oh My!!
Ha! Ha! I enjoy all the pretty colours but it would be easy to get sidetracked and start another line !!!
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Bantam Breeding Project: Mottled and Cuckoo and Partridge, Oh My!!
yes Jan, I also often see myself as princess Leila or at least somebody from another planet, frankly anybody telling me a story of a person in search of "just the right chicken" for years and years would bring on thoughts of another planet or men in white coats almost immediatelywindwalkingwolf wrote:I have to admit, when PPR posted about the standard blacks, I had an image of you as Princess Leia flash through my mind, saying, "Help me, Obi Wan, you're my only hope!" Because just one good bird would be all it would take to get the blue wy's (even miss mossy!) to the next level, it's just to get your hands on that one. Hope springs eternal :)Ontario Chick wrote:QR_BBPOSTYou optimist you, "good black rooster" ? still waiting for "precissionplymouth"..." to come up with some more of those Black chicks.windwalkingwolf wrote:[post]23610[ OC, this means that your outcross experiments of last year are not a wash! You can cross your mossy blue columbiam girl with a good black rooster and get good blue :D !
I must say I am really partial to those gold birds of yours with the punk hair!!!
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CULL HARD is great advice, but seldom put into practice. We wouldn't have many of today's breeds and breed colours (and sizes) if we all culled TOO hard Mind you, we also wouldn't all be either wishing for bigger coops and more breeding pens, or trying to figure out how to downsize, if we could all CULL HARD, either.
The gold/buff/red pullet with black spangles is staying. *Sigh*. She has the yellow legs, the crest, the extra toe I want, so I'm going to see what she throws next year should she live so long. Plus, she's just COOL looking. *sigh*.
The gold/buff/red pullet with black spangles is staying. *Sigh*. She has the yellow legs, the crest, the extra toe I want, so I'm going to see what she throws next year should she live so long. Plus, she's just COOL looking. *sigh*.
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Bantam Breeding Project: Mottled and Cuckoo and Partridge, Oh My!!
WWW you are right! What cull hard REALLY means, is take that weird or off coloured looking one and start a new project!
I have to get a photo posted of my strange rooster, very unusual and unexpected from a Buckeye x Cornish cross, I'd like to hear what people think happened. Of course he should have been culled, buuuuuutt......... so cooooooooollllllllll........
I have to get a photo posted of my strange rooster, very unusual and unexpected from a Buckeye x Cornish cross, I'd like to hear what people think happened. Of course he should have been culled, buuuuuutt......... so cooooooooollllllllll........
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