Pastor Martin Silverudd worked in several Småland communities during the latter part of the last century. During this time he produced a number of breeds that would suit the Swedish laying hens industry - they are referred to as Silverudds breeds. The FFF Hens are known for their huge eggs, docile nature, and having the biggest color differences between the sexes!
Breed Information:
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Origin - Martin Silverudd custom made this breed in 1955 (hence the name 55 Flowery). The birds were each 70% Överlida and Hårsbäck white leghorn and 30% brown leghorn.
Eggs - Large; white shell. Bird Size - Medium |
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Different Varieties - Gold and Silver Gold variety (GFF): This is the dominant line and what our hens consist of.
Silver variety (SFF) : This line came from recessive colorations and is much rarer. Our Rooster is a Silver Variant. Crossing a GFF Roo to a SFF hen guarantees a GFF offspring. FiftyFive Flowers are 100% auto-sexing, even with crosses and a go-to bird if you are looking for autosexing any offspring. Initially, FF was only in gold, but because it would be interesting as a line of lines, a silver variant was released in 1960. This is the most common today. |
What is so interesting about the FF Autosexing? Why is Silverrudd such a genius?
The breed's distinctive character with almost White Roos and Spackled hens depends on three genes B (stripedness), e + (wild type) and mo (white spots). These genes function in a very special triple collaboration, B in combination with e + gives autosexing (color difference between the sexes). B and mo are factors with the "freak ". Because B is on the sex chromosome, it gives the following reproduction for BB- Roos: BB momo and Hens: B-momo.
Since Roos have four factors for white and Hens three (gender-bound B in simple set), the Roos are white while the hens only become white-stained. One can say that the whiteness (floral) turns comes in full bloom at the roots and that's what makes Roos so very white.
The breed's distinctive character with almost White Roos and Spackled hens depends on three genes B (stripedness), e + (wild type) and mo (white spots). These genes function in a very special triple collaboration, B in combination with e + gives autosexing (color difference between the sexes). B and mo are factors with the "freak ". Because B is on the sex chromosome, it gives the following reproduction for BB- Roos: BB momo and Hens: B-momo.
Since Roos have four factors for white and Hens three (gender-bound B in simple set), the Roos are white while the hens only become white-stained. One can say that the whiteness (floral) turns comes in full bloom at the roots and that's what makes Roos so very white.
Genetic Crossings :
Rubin 88s:FF has been the parent line in a crossing with RIR to produce a brown-crossing rubin called Rubin 88. Other breeds have also been used as crossing partners to bring out a good well-being, some who tested Minorca, Sussex and Plymouth rock but Rhode Island Red, (RIR) was the best.
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Breed Advantages:Mareks Disease Resistant
Layers of HUGE white eggs - comparable in size to duck eggs. Known Issues:No known issues at this time.
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Rueban 88s are not available at this time - but we hope to be able to offer them shortly.
Data retrieved and translated from: https://bokeslundsgarden.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/fifty-five-flowery-3/ . May 15, 2018.
Fiftieth Flowery
By Martin Silverudd, Vetlanda
Fiftieth Flowery (FF) is the first Swedish chicken breed.
It appeared in 1958 after selection in a panmix strain (panmixi = random crossing), which had about 2/3 White Leghorn (VL) and 1/3 Brown Leghorn (BL) in the lineage.
Fifty five, which means fifty five, symbolizes that year (1955) when the first crossing was carried out, which led to the rise of the breed.
Flowery means floral and refers to the white spot on the hens (the roosters lack this whole).
The breed has a simple genetic constitution regarding the genes which give it its special color type and hence the coherent properties.
The gene B (barred = sexually bound transverse) comes from VL.
Even the gene mo comes from VL and it can be described as a slight sensation. Mo means mottling (white spot). Houdan, Ancona and others have mo-genes.
Since mottle of Orloffs is not conditional on the mo, it can not be guaranteed that mottling at FF is identical to Ancona's mo.
This can easily be investigated through a crossing test.
The gene St (striped down, streaky thin) has FF received from BL in the origin line.
Genes B, Mo and St work in a striking and interesting triple and harmony that strongly distinguishes the breed from everyone else.
But also s (gold) or S (silver) play a big part in FF.
Today's FF is grown almost exclusively in silver, but at the beginning there was only FF in gold.
In a breed like FF, silver provides almost unlimited opportunities for gender crossings of "sex-linked" or "autosexing" type.
FF is sexually explicit (autosexing).
It's no trouble to sell one million day-old chickens, purebred or crossed, without a single tip.
The dye is similar to the legbars, but is diminished by the impact of the mother.
Despite the fact that the FF has a simple ra technical design, it still has an outstanding racing appearance.
The combination of B, Mo and St is unusually successful, especially when working with VL as the main basic material.
The breed's distinctive character with almost white toes and colored hens depends on the three mentioned genes.
And to note that St, which in itself is sexually different to the color (strictly not necessarily in itself, but the difference can probably be explained by the double sets of X-bound genes or the Y's characteristics of the chicken) is an important gene.
When Lamoreux produced Ancobar, he did not have such a strong effect that characterizes FF,
though he used the combination of B and mo, because the gene E of Ancobar can not at all claim as e plus St in company with B and mo. Because FF-roots have a double set of B (homozygous) and chickens have simple (hemizygoty), B becomes the tongue on the scale, which is more total than in any other breed (refers to the feather color) separates the teats from the chickens.
The autosomal mo gene is like the gender-bound B gene that is revealed in "effect", B in striped and mo in spite.
A hen that is clean for B, Mo and St retains its "St-B" color but becomes "white-flowered" through the mother's presence.
A tupp, on the other hand, becomes almost entirely white because it has a double set of both B and mo, so that the "fake effects" take over to the extent that the toes "blossoms in full bloom" become almost completely white.However, they always have small regular gray spots on the throat, which is the most racial type of them.
Teeth of gold variety always have a little yellow / red on the shoulders.
In practical cultivation, FF has proven to produce very good results both in terms of viability and cross-production at a pair of lines of a few other breeds.
This is partly due to the fact that the lines fit each other ("nick lines") and partly because the strong inbreeding by 10 years as the oldest FF line has been exposed.
FF belongs to the most beautiful breeds.
Of course, the hens are concerned. When they rub, they become even more beautiful, because they become more "big-flowered".
The gold variety is the most beautiful.
You can easily sex-sort VL and VL crossings with 100% security with any sex-linked method.
But autosexing always has its advantages in a modern breeding work in front of a mere sex-linked sorting, so we doubtless believe that autosexing methods will be melody in the future.
Autosexing means that a breed is sexually explicit in itself (FF, Rhodebar, Cambar, Leghorn et al. Such races have been around since 1929.
Sex-linked sexing means getting sex shows by crossing two breeds or lines that are not gender-specific in themselves, such as NH X LS, BL X GPR, etc.
It appeared in 1958 after selection in a panmix strain (panmixi = random crossing), which had about 2/3 White Leghorn (VL) and 1/3 Brown Leghorn (BL) in the lineage.
Fifty five, which means fifty five, symbolizes that year (1955) when the first crossing was carried out, which led to the rise of the breed.
Flowery means floral and refers to the white spot on the hens (the roosters lack this whole).
The breed has a simple genetic constitution regarding the genes which give it its special color type and hence the coherent properties.
The gene B (barred = sexually bound transverse) comes from VL.
Even the gene mo comes from VL and it can be described as a slight sensation. Mo means mottling (white spot). Houdan, Ancona and others have mo-genes.
Since mottle of Orloffs is not conditional on the mo, it can not be guaranteed that mottling at FF is identical to Ancona's mo.
This can easily be investigated through a crossing test.
The gene St (striped down, streaky thin) has FF received from BL in the origin line.
Genes B, Mo and St work in a striking and interesting triple and harmony that strongly distinguishes the breed from everyone else.
But also s (gold) or S (silver) play a big part in FF.
Today's FF is grown almost exclusively in silver, but at the beginning there was only FF in gold.
In a breed like FF, silver provides almost unlimited opportunities for gender crossings of "sex-linked" or "autosexing" type.
FF is sexually explicit (autosexing).
It's no trouble to sell one million day-old chickens, purebred or crossed, without a single tip.
The dye is similar to the legbars, but is diminished by the impact of the mother.
Despite the fact that the FF has a simple ra technical design, it still has an outstanding racing appearance.
The combination of B, Mo and St is unusually successful, especially when working with VL as the main basic material.
The breed's distinctive character with almost white toes and colored hens depends on the three mentioned genes.
And to note that St, which in itself is sexually different to the color (strictly not necessarily in itself, but the difference can probably be explained by the double sets of X-bound genes or the Y's characteristics of the chicken) is an important gene.
When Lamoreux produced Ancobar, he did not have such a strong effect that characterizes FF,
though he used the combination of B and mo, because the gene E of Ancobar can not at all claim as e plus St in company with B and mo. Because FF-roots have a double set of B (homozygous) and chickens have simple (hemizygoty), B becomes the tongue on the scale, which is more total than in any other breed (refers to the feather color) separates the teats from the chickens.
The autosomal mo gene is like the gender-bound B gene that is revealed in "effect", B in striped and mo in spite.
A hen that is clean for B, Mo and St retains its "St-B" color but becomes "white-flowered" through the mother's presence.
A tupp, on the other hand, becomes almost entirely white because it has a double set of both B and mo, so that the "fake effects" take over to the extent that the toes "blossoms in full bloom" become almost completely white.However, they always have small regular gray spots on the throat, which is the most racial type of them.
Teeth of gold variety always have a little yellow / red on the shoulders.
In practical cultivation, FF has proven to produce very good results both in terms of viability and cross-production at a pair of lines of a few other breeds.
This is partly due to the fact that the lines fit each other ("nick lines") and partly because the strong inbreeding by 10 years as the oldest FF line has been exposed.
FF belongs to the most beautiful breeds.
Of course, the hens are concerned. When they rub, they become even more beautiful, because they become more "big-flowered".
The gold variety is the most beautiful.
You can easily sex-sort VL and VL crossings with 100% security with any sex-linked method.
But autosexing always has its advantages in a modern breeding work in front of a mere sex-linked sorting, so we doubtless believe that autosexing methods will be melody in the future.
Autosexing means that a breed is sexually explicit in itself (FF, Rhodebar, Cambar, Leghorn et al. Such races have been around since 1929.
Sex-linked sexing means getting sex shows by crossing two breeds or lines that are not gender-specific in themselves, such as NH X LS, BL X GPR, etc.
