LaurenRitz
Crowing
A maybe odd genetics question. We recently hatched 4 chicks. Father is a Bielefelder, mothers could have been Jersey Giant, RIR, or Black Australorp. I believe the survivors were 2 RIR, 1 BA, and 1 JG. I know for a fact that there was only one JG, as the other JG failed to develop. The other BA egg never pipped. So by process of elimination, we should have had 2 Biel x RIR chicks.
Previously we hatched 3 chicks that were Jersey Giant x RIR. I expected that all of them would be black as chicks, and they were.
On the second group I would have expected a variety of appearances, but all are black with a white belly and a white spot on top of the head.
What coloring should a Biel x RIR chick have? I should think somewhere between the appearance of their parents as chicks, but that does not appear to be the case.
And while it is always possible that I mis-identified the eggs, I was hoping for a chick from our now deceased RIR.
Previously we hatched 3 chicks that were Jersey Giant x RIR. I expected that all of them would be black as chicks, and they were.
On the second group I would have expected a variety of appearances, but all are black with a white belly and a white spot on top of the head.
What coloring should a Biel x RIR chick have? I should think somewhere between the appearance of their parents as chicks, but that does not appear to be the case.
And while it is always possible that I mis-identified the eggs, I was hoping for a chick from our now deceased RIR.