Broadway American Showgirls & Silkies

11/04/2026

My beautiful homebred Sebastapol girlie

19/02/2026

On Auction this coming Saturday! PM me for a catalogue ☺️

18/02/2026

Our stunning National Reserve Breed Champion is on Auction this coming weekend! Message me for a full catalogue!

18/02/2026

19/10/2025

Top 10 Traits of the Poultry Purist
A cautionary field guide to the self-important, change-averse chicken breeder who believes that progress is heretical.

1. The Feathered Dinosaur
The Poultry Purist clings to a golden past that never existed. Their knowledge and manners stopped evolving around 1953. They fondly reminisce about 'the good old days', when men were men and chicken colours remained unchanged for decades.

2. The Chicken Colour Police
To the Poultry Purist, a silver-spangled Wyandotte is not an enjoyable variety. It's a war crime. Their mission is to protect breeds from creativity, joy and vibrant colours. Any chicken that dares to sparkle outside of the 'approved palette' is immediately labelled as blasphemy on legs.

3. The Omniscient Chicken-God(ess)
The Poultry Purist was born knowing all there is to know about poultry genetics. They never studied it; they simply feel it. Learning about genes is for the weak; intuition and gossip from their grandfather are the real science.

4. The Innovation Inquisitor
Suggest a new colour variety or a humane improvement and the Poultry Purist will arrive with a pitchfork in hand, ready to accuse you of 'ruining the breed'. Meanwhile, their own birds can't walk in a straight line even if you bribed them.

5. The Mob Whisperer
No Poultry Purist fights alone. They rally a loyal flock of nervous conformists who crave belonging more than they value independent thinking. Together, they cluck in unison, convinced that shouting loudly on Facebook equals authority.

6. The Genetics Denier
Modern genetics? Actual science based on published papers? To the Poultry Purist, it's witchcraft. If Gregor Mendel were alive today, they would tell him that his peas were impure crossbred mutts.

7. The Eternal Judge
They never improve; all they do is judge. They don't discuss or debate; they condemn. A Poultry Purist doesn't need to understand what you're doing, they just know it's wrong because they're not the ones doing it.

8. The Self-Saboteur
The Poultry Purist is so terrified of change that they’d rather breed deformed birds than admit their methods are outdated. If a tendon slips off occasionally it’s 'heritage.' If it walks properly, it’s 'not pure.'

9. The Conversation Killer
You can't reason with a Poultry Purist. Try discussing something and you’ll get a sermon about tradition and purity, and how they met a judge who agreed with them in 1982. You'll leave dumber than you arrived.

10. The Boredom Breeder
After a lifetime of breeding nothing but white Wyandottes, the Poultry Purist calls it 'preservation of heritage.' The rest of us call it 'refusing to have fun.'

Want to have fun? www.chickencolours.com

13/10/2025

There is no 'leg-length-gene' so what about different leg lengths?!
This is Thaibo the long-legged Chabo because she does not carry the Cp (creeper) gene. Yet she has very short legs, even without Cp/cp+.
This shows that leg length is determined by the expression of multiple genes working together, rather than a single ‘leg-length-gene’.

Thaibo's leg genes are exactly the same as those of Modern English Games, whose legs are like stilts compared to Thaibo's short legs. With this example, I am trying to illustrate that each gene functions like a volume k**b ranging from 0 to 11, where 0 represents no expression (because the gene is methylated*), 1 indicates minimal expression, and 11 represents a maximum loud expression.

*) Methylation is a chemical modification that can effectively silence genes by adding methyl groups to DNA, preventing the gene from being read and expressed. This process acts as an ‘off switch’ without changing the underlying genetics (presence of the gene) itself. Through methylation, two chickens can possess identical genes yet display vastly different traits, because the genes are expressed at different levels, just like you can change the bass, mids and treble or EQ of your stereo or amplifyer.

It is certain that the same leg genes of the super long legs of the Modern English Game show a completely different pattern on the expression spectrum (or EQ) regarding how strongly specific genes are expressed, compared to a ‘long-legged’ Chabo.

Consider this now and then, because this principle applies not only to groups of genes working together, but also to individual genes such as those controlling mahogany, columbian, blue, or Db, amongst many others.

Find books on chickens at www.chickencolours.com and simple genetics books for starters and advanced chicken genetics lovers.

12/10/2025

AND... 🥁

We took Best Duck on Show and
🏆🏆BEST BIRD ON SHOW🏆🏆 with Boaz, our Indian Runner Drake!!! HUGE surprise as there was a strong Duck Class! 😂🤣 Our Judge was Joachim Losos

We also received:
3x 1sts
3x 2nds
2x 3rds
1x 4th
Best in Variety
2nd Best in Variety
2nd Best of Breed AND
🥇BEST IN BREED🥇
for our Runners

12/10/2025

Moving on to the more serious stuff 😉
We received the following awards for our Bearded Silkies and Pekins at the SASPO affiliated Agricultural Show held in Komga:

SILKIES (3 Entered)
1st x2
2nd x1
Best in Variety x1
2nd Best in Variety x1
2nd Best in Breed

PEKINS (7 Entered)
1st x4
2nd x2
Best in Variety x2
2nd Best in Breed
🥇*Best in Breed*🥇

🏆BEST TRUE BANTAM ON SHOW🏆

PEKIN FRIZZLE (1 Entered)
1st
2nd Best in Variety
2nd Best in Breed

12/10/2025

An introduction to Youth Showmanship at the Komga Show 2025 🧽🚿🧼

12/10/2025

Our Chicken Egg Decorating Competition at the Komga Agricultural Show 2025

12/10/2025

Today a week ago: preparing for the Komga Agricultural Show 🐓🦆🪿