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    Green Jungle Fowl feathers

    Recently I have been reading up on Green jungle fowl. A lot of sites say that the short iridescent green feathers on its neck are actually overlapping scales. Does this mean a scale pattern or that these are hard scales like on a reptile?
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    Indio Gigantes and Defects

    I havent seen the publication of a standard for them. Do the ones in the picture look like they have any defects to be concerned of passing down?
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    The Naga Cemani

    Indio Gigantes are not bred to a book standard but typically Roosters end up at around 10 lbs when fully grown. Usually anything less is from bad selection
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    The Naga Cemani

    Is the Bantam gene in the silkie recessive or dominant?
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    Broiler Genes

    I know of a couple genes which have unique permutations in broilers, the first being one on chr2: 143,708,896 bp G896A this gene affects muscle growth rate. The next being a mutation of the Chr4: 77,192,329 CCKAR gene affecting appetite. What other genes specific to broilers result in their...
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    Malay Chat Thread

    cool. Do you have any pictures?
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    The Black Shumen: The Breed of the Byzantines

    Personally I'd like to only use direct Roman breeds. I do know that they were crossed with RIRs and Black Minorcas but that was after 1453 with the fall of Constantinople
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    The Black Shumen: The Breed of the Byzantines

    After doing some research on Roman and Byzantine Roman Chicken Breeds I found the Black Shumen, a rare breed used by Byzantine Romans and Bulgarians. Lets say as a hypothetical I wanted to produce a modern Roman gamefowl and I crossed it to the Roman Pit game the OEG and their dual purpose, the...
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    Malay Chat Thread

    US show Standards. I don't own an SOP but I believe there is one in there for it
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    Malay Chat Thread

    How many liege fighters do you raise?
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    Malay Chat Thread

    The problem isnt inbreeding its excessive inbreeding, inbreeding is a tool for building consistency in a strain but its not a whole program. Its better to create a set of lines within a family to maintain a balance of both consistency and diversity the problem is people dont want to specialize...
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    Malay Chat Thread

    what do yours look like? Do you breed for shows or just for personal use?
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    Malay Chat Thread

    D Do you breed them ?
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    Malay Chat Thread

    do you raise them, ive been looking for some to breed for shows
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    Malay Chat Thread

    Does anyone know of breeders who produce heritage Malays for shows?
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    Malay Chat Thread

    I'm currently in Uni so i haven't been breeding in the last couple years since I'm away but I've bred and raised Silver Wyandottes and ko shamos since childhood
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    Malay Chat Thread

    If you are breeding through an improvement program it's better to introduce diversity or improve traits through a subline and then to maintain both genetic diversity and the improvements keep 3 to 4 families in a maintainence program for clan mating. Once you establish a family and maintain a...
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    Malay Chat Thread

    What you have to do is create multiple lines in one family and cull sick birds and lack of vigor. Adding new blood all the time destroys improvements and consistency in a strain
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    Malay Chat Thread

    If you inbreed purely forultiple generations. Crossing however without a good breeding program and heavy selection would have the birds inherit those defects from both strains
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    Malay Chat Thread

    Birds and reptiles don't have the same reaction to inbreeding as mammals do they can inbreed and linebreed for far longer. I think doing so could improve the size and confirmation of your birds. How many of their eggs do you hatch out in a year and of those what percent do you cull/breed
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