Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[JacinLarkwell]

Looks like a partridge rock pattern a bit

 

[Solanacae]

That’s a really cool pattern on the feathers. I definitely see the SLW influence on the lacing she’s got in her chest. I have a hatchery speckled Sussex (whose adult plumage didn’t come in speckled, incidentally) that has similar feathers on her back and wings. I’ll have to see if I have any good pictures of her plumage. Speckled Sussex are Columbian coloring with mahogany and mottling, aren’t they?
I also have a pullet that’s a Mosaic over a GLW and she’s got some similar characteristics to your pullet as well.

Here’s a couple decent ones of the SS. She’s not particularly friendly but makes a great broody. Ignore the pale comb in the first one, she was sitting in a batch of eggs at the time.

Here’s the Mosaic/GLW cross - bottom center on the first one, so you can better see the pattern on her back.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Speckled Sussex are Columbian coloring with mahogany and mottling, aren’t they?

Yes, that’s correct.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Pics as promised, two culls. Did not have the excess fat i saw on a prior cull, liver color dark and uniform, everything firm. The first bird was coming into maturity, the second larger bird was chasing ladies (sometimes successfully). No post processing pics, i completely deboned. The carcasses are making stock now, the meat will be ground for sausage after a rest of a couple days. Yields typical.

4.29#

6.28#

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I still have more white to get out of the flock, but its ladies, so less urgent, and I had to stop early today, my toes were wet and cold - otherwise I'd have taken the three white girls, too. We'll see how much freezer space I have in a couple days.

 

[3KillerBs]

That's got to be all SLW on the hen side, with the black becoming red, and the white becoming black, due to Pretty Boys' E gene, right???

I wish I knew how to figure this out.

There's no good beginners guide.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I wish I knew how to figure this out.

There's no good beginners guide.

SO SO SO TRUE! and while the letters are nice on the K calculator, the pictures they chose SUCK.

 

[3KillerBs]

SO SO SO TRUE! and while the letters are nice on the K calculator, the pictures they chose SUCK.

And there's no good explanation of what all the arcane codes mean -- with photos to show the exact effect.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I still have more white to get out of the flock, but its ladies, so less urgent, and I had to stop early today, my toes were wet and cold - otherwise I'd have taken the three white girls, too. We'll see how much freezer space I have in a couple days.

I think your project is coming along nice btw

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I think your project is coming along nice btw

Thank you for saying so, most kind. The whole flock, however, shows how many mis-steps have resulted from trusting crossings to chance. Part of the point of this project - to show that *it can be done*, but that it won't happen quickly or predictably.