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This is just speculation, but I’m wondering if some sort of viral disease could be causing an autoimmune deficiency that results in more deaths than would normally happen? Perhaps the stress of parasites and the poisonous plants triggers the disease, or it’s something they would normally be able...

My cockerel recovered from the symptoms without progressing any further, so hopefully your’s can too. Watch out for wasting, wry neck, and an inability to fly.

I had a cockerel who developed a sudden limp when I introduced him to the flock but had no sign of injury, like you described. He recovered, but later I had other birds that got full paralysis and wasted away, so I think the limp was actually due to Marek’s. I’m not saying that’s the case with...

Yes, the silver will be gone, it can’t hide behind gold since it’s dominant. You may be able to tell the new mixes from your existing hens by the fayoumi/quill pattern.

Silver (grey) is dominant over red/gold. However, that also means that once it’s gone, it won’t come back; unless it isn’t actually gone. Silver rooster to gold hen will produce silver/gold roosters (appearing mostly silver) and silver hens. Gold rooster to silver hen will produce silver/gold...

If a chicken is pure for the pea comb gene, it cannot produce single combed chicks.

Yes. She must have a lot of gamefowl blood. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t a cross, even if it happened a couple generations back.

Starlight blue eggers and whiting true blues are just a couple of the leghorn x Easter egger crosses hatcheries breed that have some similar traits. Then there’s legbars, though the father would’ve had to be a legbar mix to produce an unbarred daughter.