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My brown red and grey hens went broody on me before I could get the incubator up and running. Hope to have chicks on March 21 & 22.

The new girls have started laying. Hope to have chicks in about 4 weeks!

Mottled breed true. Breeding long leg birds keeps you from improving. Keep on clean bedding at all times.

/height/700[/IMG] Went to visit my JBBA district director yesterday to talk birds and came home with these. They are still a little frazzled from the trip, and wobbly sitting on our hands, and my poor photographing ability. So you have to forgive them a little in these pics.

Consultree, if you are wanting eggs from quality birds 6 really isn't enough as you can expect 25% of them to not hatch. Of the ones that hatch expect 33% to be culls due to long legs. You are looking at 2 or 3 chicks to keep assuming a 100% hatch on the eggs that will hatch.

Wry tail is not a good trait in show birds.

Barred is the variety in Japanese. Barring is also sex linked if I remember correctly. So all chicks from this cock bird should have barring. Again if I rmember correctly about barring being sex linked.

My Japs do just fine in the Northern KY/Cincinnati OH area without and additional heat. They are housed in a chain link coop with roof and 2 sides covered with tarps. Have had no issues with any of the bantams which are all housed this way. Did you mean vaccinated for Mareks?

Any one in KY or surrounding state have grey or brown red? Lost my rooster and need to find another one for the girls.

I went out the other day and my young (1 year old) grey rooster was dead in the coop. No signs of foul play (no pun intended). No signs prior that anything was wrong. He was going with some older hens and some young project birds this spring. Old man will have to do for now. I guess I will...

We get to freezing and below here. My birds are in an open front coop and have been fine in these temperatures.

NYREDS If a 1" leg is a medium length leg, what would be the length of a short leg? I thought that I read or heard some where that the leg length should be the width of a finger. Maybe I have fat fingers, but using my finger would be about0.75" I think I might need to revise what I am...

NovaAman, don't take the comments personnaly. It is an electronic forum and not meant to be long exhausting comments so the comments will sometimes not seem socially pleasing. Use the information as needed to meet your goals with your birds. That may mean the comment is immediately forgotten. So...

NYREDS I appreciate your comments. Actually wish you gave more details sometimes. I came to the site to learn about show quality birds, but it just seems to be these are my birds posts and they are pretty. Those post are ok, but I want to know about type and color to better interpret the...

Wilker is the black a Japanese or serama? It seems to be very upright stance more like a serama.

He is still a youngster at 4 months. Tbey will probably be bigger with his next molt. They will stop growing when he be omes an adult.

Lemon blue is what I thought, but thought the color was too dark. Yes there is plenty more to fix. They are first generation Jap x OEG. Will have to take them back to Jap a fee more generations to work on type.

Any suggestion as to the color of the 2 pullets (center & right)? I like the lighter on in the front. They both have short legs but might be able to be a little shorter. Will have to work on that. My attempt at making blues.

Any suggestions as to what color is on the cockerel on the right in both pictures.