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Thanks for clarifying! Yea I think the Red/Blue combo is very striking too with its contrast. We named the rooster & hen with that color combo Fire & Ice. Now that the rooster's shiny red saddle feathers are getting longer it almost looks like flames. BBS Silver & Gold duckwings would be very...

Here's an update of how they're feathering out at 3.5 weeks old. Now I'm really not sure what their color types are🙃 Excluding the Tibetan, they're all more on the greyscale- not much brown on them, except the accents of fawn or chestnut brown. I was trying to compare them to the examples on...

I was trying to figure out what color quail we have if any one wants to give any input! *edited to add description of their coloring since my camera wasn't showing the colors the best. Here's my guesses: #1 red & black with yellow eyebrows- Tibetan #2 lavender & white-? #3 solid gray- Lavender...

Ok thank you for explaining their colorings! Here's a better side picture of #2, that is considered Duckwing with the tip of his wing matching his hackle & saddle feathers correct? What color/pattern offspring might he produce? For #3, your 3rd picture looks very similar to mine. What type of...

Whiting True Blues are known for coming in any color/pattern so I'm not really worried about the coloring, I actually like the variety:) Yes true Ameraucanas are homozygous for the blue egg gene, I was meaning that I've found there to be alot of places/people who misleadingly refer to their...

Correct, they're similar to Easter Eggers where they can be any feather color but are homozygous for the blue egg gene which is what I thought was neat about them:) So does BBS & typical feather color genetics not even apply to them then?

Do you mind explaining what the leakage on them is? Like I said I'm new to understanding all the genetics behind coloring. I used that term in explaining the blue with red coloring because someone else had described the coloring as that, but I might have been using that term wrong. I do know...

So is BBS it's own genetic thing? Like just because a chicken is blue or black doesn't mean they have the BBS genetic makeup? Whiting True Blues come in any color/pattern, my sister & I bought from the same place & every one was a different color. I left her pick which ones she wanted & it just...

I'm really interested in feather color genetics but have limited knowledge of it & would love to learn. I have Whiting True Blues that I'll be breeding & I have 3 roosters that I'm trying to decide on who to keep & who to cull based on which will give us the most variety of feather color in...

There were 17 chicks to start & they all fit under it with room to spare. We checked the temperature of it & it was working properly & they were using it just fine. Perhaps the height was not ideal? I had it that their backs were against it but do you have yours set lower that their backs are...

Yea she had the brooder plate in for them. It's odd because they were shivering at her house & when I brought them home they seemed to slowly stop shivering so that's why we thought they were cold.

We got chicks Wednesday of this week & we had a weekend cabin trip planned so my sister who's had chicks before took care of them for us over the wknd. She unfortunately had one die on Friday & I thought maybe it was stress from shipping then when we came to pick them up on Sunday I found...

That gives me some hope lol I have a total of 9 chicks, the other 5 are black copper marans, & 2 of those are much more feathered out than any of them. Those two have wings that are to their tails and have inch long tail feathers already & I was hoping I didn't end up with only 2 females out of...

I got these unsexed chocolate eggers from a hatchery. They're 11 days old & I'm trying to figure out their gender. I wasn't sure of their breed at first either but someone I talked to said they look like wheaten marans, although their bodies are more caramel colored than most the yellow wheaten...

Ok good to know! Thank you both for your input!