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Advise concerning a new ameraucana breed.
Guest:
Curtis,
Thanks for the information. I am working on a breeding project with appenzeller spitzhauben and they have some beautiful spangling. They are genetically eb/eb (black), S/S, Db/Db, Ml/Ml and Pg/Pg. The Db gene removes most of the black from the body feathers and interacts with the Pg gene and Ml gene to form a spangle on the end of the feather. Some of my easter eggers already carry Pg and Db and Ml. They have some patterns already. This should help decrease my odds of getting a good pattern. I do not have any silver birds and it would be better if I did have them.
Is the poultry press an online publication or is it a paper pulication?
Rooster
Mike Gilbert:
Rooster,
Poultry Press is a monthly paper publication, but they do have a website. You can find it at: www.poultrypress.com . The January issue ran 68 pages. I\'m going to take a wild guess and say your first name is Dan. Am I correct?
Mike Gilbert
John:
Speaking of the Poultry Press...did you notice there are two photos of Susie on page 28 and she is sporting an ABC t-shirt!
Guest:
Mike,
No, my name is not Dan. Mike from Bantam Hill knows who I am. I have corresponded with him in the past.
Rooster
Guest:
has anyone ever tried to work on the quail color variety that comes from the Ideal Hatchery? I got some 2 years ago, easter eggers of course, and ended up with a rooster in my batch of 4 \'all pullets\'. they are beautiful birds with big thick muffs and beards, pea combs... and legs green as tree leaves. but I let one of the hens brood out a few eggs, and got 7 babies that were 100% true in color- including the legs. my last cockerel from that batch last year produced 5 offspring on a white Ameraucana pullet a couple of months ago. again they are 100% true to color, including the green legs.
okay, the point of all this is, does anyone out there have any interest in working on a Quail variety? these birds of mine seem on the reddish side, less brown than the quail D\'Anvers we have. body type needs work, but they have better beards and muffs than any of my \'standardbred\' Ameraucana. they are also much pleasanter in temperament than my bantam blues.
just for my amusement, what color crosses can I use to try to introduce slate legs/ white skin? I have 2 breeding pens of LF buffs right now- is this something that works with the quail pattern? since a very big defining point of being Ameraucana is \'color breeds true at least 50% of the time\', it seems like a color that seems to stick pretty well, like these easter eggers of mine, might have some hope if the leg color can be corrected.
I\'m just to the point where my little half acre is so overcrowded with goats, horses, turkey pens, and my nephew\'s 9 varieties of OEGB, plus my few chickens, that I am trying to limit how many more pens I have to put up out there. for this reason I am not going to try the lemon blue Ameraucana at this time. but I already have the quail EE\'s.
any suggestions?
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