genetic hackle eggs on Ebay

[NewBreeder]

Any more eggs for sale

I would love to add that gene to my flock for long feathers

I have a small flock of americana chickens I have been playing with for 6 years now

and I have come to a stand still with passing along long feathers to the following roos

with being such a small breeder the selection is very small and my hens the past few years have
not been brooding a double wammy for moving my breeding along

I think this year I need to purchase an incubator and improve my odds for finding the right roo to pass this gene along
or better yet introduce it into the flock and go from there

here is a pic of what I have been able to do so far starting with straight run chickens

Ed

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Not bad Ed. Just something to toss out there to folks looking to start breeding. I have been told by some of the old timers that breed longtails, the hens are the ones that pass the tail along. When I did some crossing projects, it showed. I did a phoenix cock on leghorn hens and a leghorn cock on phoenix hens, the cockerels from the phoenix hens had much longer/fuller saddles than the cockerels from the leghorn hens. So keep that in mind when selecting breeder birds

 

[NewBreeder]

thanks I will keep that in mind, I was not aware that trait is passed on the y chormosome

I have a friend who raises those long tail japanese birds and he also told me he labors heavily
on which hens to pick for the future

I would work with his birds but they are of the bantam variety

where I like to work with the standard breed

My intentions is breeding very long and wide saddles or very wide
cape feathers

I am not after the dry fly qualities other than passing on the length factors

I might have to forgo these traits till the long feather gene is in the bird first

thanks for your info

Ed

 

[trailchick]

I got 4 beautiful chicks from fly's 6 hackle egg auction that was on ebay.

I would update my feedback on there but I dont know how...






I marked them with a green marker, which was a good thing, I had
some lav orpingtons and that little blue/silver chick would have gotten
lost.

Thanks Fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

[Fly Fisher]

Trailchick,

Glad to see your hatch went well. It looks like 3 of your chicks are from the Dun Rooster you admired. Good luck with them.

 

[Fly Fisher]

Ed,

Just thought I would comment on your posting. I agree with flyingmonkey regarding the hens.

When I started researching breeding for feather quality the topic that always rises to the top is breeding selection. Many of the pioneers in genetic hackle were making big strides quickly and then seeing their progress slow right down. Some of the more knowlegable breeders started to apply the same rate of selection to the hens as well and it was through this tactic that the modern day quality evolved. The bigger farms keep most of their activities top secret excep for small tidbits like a 5% or less breeding selection and choosing your most cock like hens for breeding.

Nice photo.Looks like a nice roo. What breeds did you start your project with?

Fly

 

[NewBreeder]

Ed,

Just thought I would comment on your posting. I agree with flyingmonkey regarding the hens.

When I started researching breeding for feather quality the topic that always rises to the top is breeding selection. Many of the pioneers in genetic hackle were making big strides quickly and then seeing their progress slow right down. Some of the more knowlegable breeders started to apply the same rate of selection to the hens as well and it was through this tactic that the modern day quality evolved. The bigger farms keep most of their activities top secret excep for small tidbits like a 5% or less breeding selection and choosing your most cock like hens for breeding.

Nice photo.Looks like a nice roo. What breeds did you start your project with?

Fly

Hi Fly

I am working with a barred rock and americana cross

I originally started with barred rock and started crossing into the americanas

I like the americana hens I have for the partridge looking feathers

I my particular case since I have such a small selection to pick from I think the long feather gene is the issue

Since you are very familiar with fly tying what I am looking for is to create a spey cock which has been extinct I think since the 1800's in Scotland

Once I introduce that gene and it shows in my flock I will be taking the flock over to silkies for that very soft hackle and then take it from there
Not sure what I will get but it is the direction I am moving the flock towards

If you have anymore eggs for sale please pm me, I am very interested

Here is another pic of the bird his bottom neck hackle spreads across almost 3 inches wide
I have seen similar cross of silkie that I am aiming for to have the large neck hackle be almost 6 inches wide

I think I can do this with the right birds and time

 

[Fly Fisher]

Ed,
That is one impressive cape. How od is that bird?

 

[NewBreeder]

Fly

This is a 3 yr old bird, but this guy has always had this cape from his first year

Good thing is he passed this on to one of his young which is of breeding age this spring

Ed

 

[thehackleguy]

This is one of my GH brood cocks, he is a pretty good example