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AKA Steve · 02-15-2008 04:13:41

Id like to encourage some posts that highlight photo's and information about the breeds people have.
If you want, please start a new thread of "post pictures of "insert your breed"
This Thread is dedicated to Hamburgs clap

Rooster-Red · 02-15-2008 11:57:03

Here is my Silver Spangled Hamburg hen "Speckles"

BrahmaMama · 03-11-2008 10:10:09

I'm going through my photobucket, and bringing up old posts haha

I ordered these gals/guys from Welp hatchery last summer...thought I had did some reading on Hamburgs-obviously not enough, lol! Not saying they are all flighty, but my particular birds are. These are supposed to be Golden Spangled Hamburgs.

One pullet:

And the roo-his markings/colorings are alot lighter then the other roos that came in the order (already gave them away though)
I kept him because he did look so different, but I'm sure he's not up to standard-color wise and then some, lol!

Don't mind my messy food containers, I am so waiting for the warm weather, so I can scrub and clean everything down!

Queen of the Lilliputians · 03-11-2008 11:58:04

Wow- I love the markings on the hamburgs! What sort of layer are they?

BrahmaMama · 03-12-2008 01:39:12

Queen of the Lilliputians wrote:
Wow- I love the markings on the hamburgs! What sort of layer are they?

Queen, they are pretty good layers, I get 4-5 eggs a day, out of 5 pullets. They are pretty small eggs though, small white to a creamy white egg. The pointy end of some of the eggs has a teeny bit different shape, kinda square pointy, if that makes sense, haha They're really neat though! And I have noticed the eggs, when cracked into the bowl/pan, really hold their shape-the yolk sits up nice and proud. As far as them being small, they are only pullets; will be a year in July. The birds themself are small though, I can't imagine them getting much bigger, so I don't see the eggs getting too much bigger either. Whew, sorry my explanation got so long, eesh! :exc

Frozen Feathers · 03-12-2008 02:00:05

My SSH I had a few years ago. Gorgeous birds, but too flighty for me.

BrahmaMama · 03-12-2008 02:42:56

Frozen Feathers wrote:
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q177 … 7small.jpg
My SSH I had a few years ago. Gorgeous birds, but too flighty for me.

She's beautiful! I love the markings on her, and especially her tail. love I hear you on the flightiness, I will keep the gals I have, but it's definitely not a breed I want to concentrate on. I love me some big, chunky, laid back feather foots big_smile

Blondie · 03-14-2008 06:33:43

Eggcetra - with all due respect, your Phoenix looks like my Cleopatra, who I always thought is an Egyptian Fayoumi. So what do I have, then?????

shrug

Rooster-Red · 03-14-2008 07:53:14

Hi Blondie!

The SSH I posted here is one of the girls you sold me!

AKA Steve · 03-16-2008 12:04:33

Blondie wrote:
Eggcetra - with all due respect, your Phoenix looks like my Cleopatra, who I always thought is an Egyptian Fayoumi. So what do I have, then?????

Egyptian Fayoumi Not recongnised by APA
white skin,
dark shanks
single comb
eggs:
off-white
to light tint

Hamburgs
white skin, slate blue shanks
Rose comb
Eggs:
low-gloss
white

Both birds pictured are silver penciled, the body type between the two breeds is a bit different and the Fayoumi's appears to have a more slender neck, in addition to the type of comb being different.

I'm no expert on these two breeds and their differences, and I cant tell for sure what kinda comb Cleopatra has, it doesn't look like a very big single comb, if thats what it is.
The body style does seem to fit the Fayoumi.

Jess's clearly seems to be a hamburg.

At the risk of posting too much:
Since the rose comb is dominant, it is possible for two hamburgs to produce a recessive, single combed offspring. The Fayoumi, having a recessive single comb, could not produce a rose comb.
So the question is, what kinda comb does Cleopatra have.

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