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Silver Standard Description
grisaboy:
Hi Dan,
I don\'t keep the BB Reds. I have kept one or two of the silver wheaton hens to use in my Silver project. I keep getting the BB Reds because I have a golden male that I have kept because I think he has great color. He is just running out in the yard with some of the Easter Egg hens. The hens hide their nests in the hay and out pops the BB Reds. The Golden male is e+/e^wh so he throws BB Reds, Silvers, wheatons, and the white headed or yellow headed birds depending on which hen hatches the eggs. He could also throw more Golden males, but I haven\'t seen any for a couple of years.
Curtis
John:
Here is the one and only bantam silver cockerel that I\'ve saved, from this years hatch, to breed from in the Spring. His leg color is white and type isn\'t great, but I really like his pattern and color. Does anyone have any better?
Mike Gilbert:
One other thing I forgot to mention. According to the picture you cockerel has very good wing carriage for a bantam. Mine is carrying his quite low. Even though mine has the slate legs, I would trade him for yours in a heartbeat.
Mike
John:
--- Quote ---If you breed him to those two slate legged females from Sedalia, you should have something special going there.
--- End quote ---
I have culled a few more silver pullets since the National. I still have a have dozen or so of the best. 4 came from you and some of them, if not all, are related to a male you got from me. Maybe this spring will be the year to hatch some great silver bantams. Of course I\'ve thought that it was going to happen a few times before. As I told you at Sedalia, I had a better looking cockerel with slate legs but he up and died on me.
John:
At our 2005 annual National meeting ABC President Mike Gilbert appointed Micheal Muenks, himself and me as a committee of three to resolve the Ameraucana silver variety description contradictions. Our consensus is that the ABA description is correct by referring to SILVER PLUMAGE on pages 234 and 235 of Bantam Standard, 1988 edition.
Our proposal to the APA is:
Ameraucana silver “PLUMAGE:”, for both bantams and large fowl, should refer to the SILVER DUTCH BANTAM color description on pages 234 and 235 of the American Standard of Perfection, 1998 edition.
Currently, on pages 194 & 272, the APA Standard reads:
PLUMAGE: Color same as Silver Leghorn on page 119.
On pages 194 & 272 it should read as proposed:
PLUMAGE: Color same as Silver Dutch Bantam on page 234.
That is what the appointed committee proposes, but we want to hear more from the ABC membership.
Please carefully consider whether the Silver Dutch color description matches in all areas, male and female, so that we, as a breed club, can just propose changing the reference from the Silver Leghorn pattern to the Silver Dutch.
IF you are a club member and have any opinions on this proposal, please comment. :)
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