The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

I go to one show a year just as a spectator. It's a decent APA show. I saw an Ameraucana win that had a brown egg in her cage.
One year I saw a lavender Orpington win as a blue.

SOP don't amount to a hill of beans if a bird is not bred to have all of the characteristics the breed is famous for. Marans are famous for the coveted dark brown eggs. Ameraucanas are popular because they lay blue to bluish green eggs. If a bird has been bred so far away from it's intended egg color just for show purposes, what is even the point?

 

[The Moonshiner]

The only thing that really bothers me about showing now days (here anyways) is the amount of sickly looking birds I see.
Those should be turned around at the door. That's why I won't ever show again.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Finally got my truck all legal today. I've been to like 7 or 8 different places in 3 different towns trying to get an inspection done. Nobody could work it in they said. Smdh.
Now I got to work a couple extra days this week but after that maybe I can get back to chickening

 

[KF0002]

The only thing that really bothers me about showing now days (here anyways) is the amount of sickly looking birds I see.
Those should be turned around at the door. That's why I won't ever show again.

We joined the NPIP program in our state when I started showing. NPIP is another thing that doesn't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to MG, coryza, and other illnesses. They mainly only test for avian influenza and pullorum. That is why sick birds show up at shows, and it puts your own birds at risk. I agree that they should be looked over before being allowed in to ensure they are well.

 

[KF0002]

Finally got my truck all legal today. I've been to like 7 or 8 different places in 3 different towns trying to get an inspection done. Nobody could work it in they said. Smdh.
Now I got to work a couple extra days this week but after that maybe I can get back to chickening

Glad you got all that taken care of! Take some pictures of what you plan on working on this year when you get time.

 

[KF0002]

I found these pictures that @MysteryChicken posted on nicalandia's "ask anything" thread. They are e+/eWh chicks. Yellow down like a wheaten with a faint duckwing pattern showing through. We have a line of games that throws both wheaten and wild type birds, so some of the chicks that are wheaten/duckwing split look like the yellow wheaten chicks with the pattern shown in his picture.

 

[Chookwagn]

SOP don't amount to a hill of beans if a bird is not bred to have all of the characteristics the breed is famous for. Marans are famous for the coveted dark brown eggs. Ameraucanas are popular because they lay blue to bluish green eggs. If a bird has been bred so far away from it's intended egg color just for show purposes, what is even the point?

I brought some birds.... BCs off a well known breeder.... he showed Bantam Wyandottes and BCs the only difference was the comb and he would pluck the feathers off the legs of the Wyandottes before the show. He just bred a rose comb into the BCs

 

[The Moonshiner]

I know I'm good on blues, blacks and blue gold duckwings.
Low numbers on buffs, exchequer, lavender silver duckwings and barred. Those I used to have plenty of. Need to get those numbers up.
OK but need to work on silver crele, blue silver duckwing and blue silver crele.
Won't worry much with crele or blue crele this year.
Everything else is up in the air atm.

 

[The Moonshiner]

he would pluck the feathers off the legs of the Wyandottes

Ouch!
Wonder if Nair would work?

 

[Amer]

I go to one show a year just as a spectator. It's a decent APA show. I saw an Ameraucana win that had a brown egg in her cage.
One year I saw a lavender Orpington win as a blue.

I bet the brown egg was a prank...
My brother pranked my by putting an Ameraucana bantam egg in my d'Anver's cage once. With the lighting I didn't realize it was blue egg, I just thought it was white. I was like "Praline laid a white egg!" IDK
People just be switching their eggs between cages.
Mostly, I doubt an Ameraucana laid a brown egg because it's kind of rare that even Easter Eggers do, and Ameraucanas were bred from EEs.
Also in my experience chickens be shoving the eggs between cages...

A lavender Orpington won as a blue? :/ I've never even seen one that looks as typey as a blue.

I brought some birds.... BCs off a well known breeder.... he showed Bantam Wyandottes and BCs the only difference was the comb and he would pluck the feathers off the legs of the Wyandottes before the show. He just bred a rose comb into the BCs

Aren't they called Pekins over there? I don't know.

Either way, Wyandottes and Cochins do not have similar type at all... If anyone tells you they have the same kind of tail, they're wrong. Because Wyandottes are actually supposed to have stiff tail feathers it's just a lot of them don't.