Recent content by AinaWGSD

Artemis seems to have made friends with the wyandotte. This evening when I was playing with the chicks this evening the wyandotte went over to hang out with her. I suspect these two will be at the bottom of the pecking order.

oh dear, looks like we're about to outgrow the brooder. (No worries, we have a chicken wire box over the brooder when we're not playing with the chicks so they won't get far)

Pullet. The lacing is too even to be male. At 13 weeks I would expect silver shoulder patches and pointed saddle feathers to be growing in. Wyandotte tend to pink up early.

We're not allowed roosters! And none of them seem like a Doug anyway

They're a relatively recent hybrid (Meyer released them in 2022 I think). They kinda look like a heavier mottled houdan.(picture from hatchery website)

I don't think that's true barring, probablyjust juvenile feathers. Barring on black chicks is unmistakable because of the headspot(which yours doesn't have). And if she was a barred male you would see at least two rows of barring on those large wing feathers by now

Looks like a speckled Sussex cockerel

Starting a thread for pictures and stories of my own little flock. In December the city was finally convinced to amend the animal ordinance to allow chickens. In January we placed an order with Meyer and began our wait. Our hatch day was April 29, and on May1 we finally got our chicks! After a...

Pullet, probably a legbar based easter egger or olive egger. Possibly a legbar.

I don't see any barring, so no sexlink babies.

It's just a barnyard mix. BUT, if the cuckoo marans (barred) was the mom and the wyandotte was the dad it's a sexlink! No white dot means you have a little pullet, congrats!

Not necessarily. Easter egger isn't a breed and as such do not have a standard set of traits. Easter egger is a catchall term meaning pullets have the potential for laying blue or green eggs due to having a blue egg layer somewhere in their ancestry. Ameraucana based easter eggers usually have a...

Americana, spelled with an i like that is an ameraucana based easter egger. Hatcheries often use the spelling with an i for the same reason they sell red sexlinks as golden comets, they sell better than when they use the more generic name.

Barring is located on the Z chromosome, males are ZZ and females are ZW. For sexlinked barred rock crosses the mother needs to be barred and the father needs to be non-barred. The mother can only pass the barring on to her sons and if the father doesn't have a barring gene to pass on so only the...

It would be interesting to see a study, but I don't know if one exists. My theory is that, for the most part, birds from a breeder are going to be more hardy because of genetics. Hatcheries are going to be less selective with their breeding stock because they are breeding huge volumes, we're...