genetics

  1. calichooks

    Mystery: Barred or Not?

    this is sesame. her father is a salmon faverolle, and her mother is…. well, that’s the problem. for reference, this is her father: marshmallow, the faverolle now the problem is, i though i had already known the mother of this little black chick. however, i’m beginning to question things...
  2. Hmenzi

    Chick color outcomes?

    Hi! I have a self blue lavender true ameraucana rooster and a bantam salmon faverolle rooster that are both sharing about 22 hens. The hens are mostly purebred (other than Easter eggers, but I'll leave them out since their coloring is always wild) My flock consists of: white leghorns, barred...
  3. H

    Chocolate silkies genetics

    Hello all! I recently got some eggs so that my son could raise some silkies. The first eggs I chose because the breeder has a lot of showgirl and I thought that he would think that they were funny. She sold us two dozen chocolate silky x chocolate silky eggs. I expected to see a lot of chocolate...
  4. G

    Olive egger roo colors and genetics

    Acquired a new roo to replace my butthead roo. He's an olive egger. His father was a welsummer/CCL. His mother is any of the following: pencil Plymouth rock, ameraucana, lavender orpington, or Rhode island blue. I will say, all his chicks have laid green eggs. Some brown, mostly green. I got...
  5. G

    Genetics of my BYM

    Howdy all, I just hatched my first chick out from my flock. The dad is an American Breese x (photo 1). I'm not sure what you'd label his color as. Chick hatched from a brown egg. I have a small grip of brown layers. A black star, a production red, two golden comets, a chocolate and buff...
  6. calichooks

    “doodle” faverolle mix chicks

    there’s this newer phenomenon, i’ve heard, of people breeding poodle dogs with everything, making “labradoodles” “goldendoodles” and even “bernedoodles” are a few i’ve heard of. well a chicken breed i love a whole lot is a good old-fashioned salmon faverolle. i had one growing up and she was...
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  7. E

    mottle genetics - choc and black

    say i had a chocolate mottled roo. if i put chocolate mottled AND black mottled hens with him, would i get chocolate and black mottled chicks (split to chocolate)? and for solid chocolate and black chicks, they should be in a separate pen, correct? i read that a bird even carrying 1 mottling...
  8. E

    fun color possibilities?

    hi all! so i’m hatching 5 doz+ Silkie eggs 🤞🏽 (color listed below.) while i’ll have pure breeding pens in which i will focus on SOP, i’m wondering what fun colors i could get from crossing any of the following, other than different colored barred/cuckoo/mottled? thanks! -B/B/S -Black Mottled...
  9. realenthusiast

    Anyone know more of the Genetics behind these Buff Silkie chicks?

    I have a pair of breeder birds I'm using to help start my own exhibition flock of Buff Silkies, and Ive gotten some odd looking chicks off of them. I completely understand that Buff is more of an ongoing project variety, and doesn't always give consistent results, but if anyone can explain the...
  10. shelabobby

    Strange Curved Feather Growth - 18 Weeks Old

    Okay this is Abby she's a Black Australorp and is 18 weeks today. I noticed that her feathers are growing differently from all the other chickens old and new. They are like at an angle growing from the left to right in a spiral on her neck to her breast. Her back/side feathers seem normal. When...
  11. Wallas

    Comb type

    I have two naked neck houdan cross. The comb on one is very small and doesn't resemble the normal comb type of either parent. I only had 2 hatch from this batch of eggs one got the crest and naked neck and this odd comb. The other has a fully feathered neck, no crest, a beard and single comb...
  12. Fallenone05

    What am I

    I bred a Blue Copper Marans to my flock. I know her mom is one of my pea combed hens, and that leaves me a couple of options; Buff Brahma Splash Oliver Egger mixes (2 different hens) Splash Brahma Green Queen mix Lavender Ameraucana A blue/red Easter Egger (idk how to describe her other than...
  13. The Sniper

    Genetics question

    How do you know the genetic makeup of your birds If I buy 5 buff orps from each of the 3 major hatcheries in the area, Cackle, Hoover, and Murray, and buy 5 buff orps from a random breeder guy in Texas, how do I know what are the recessive traits in the birds Will they all be the same...
  14. V

    Feather sexing week old chicks?

    Hi everyone! I hatched out some chicks on the 3rd and 4th of July and am trying to see if they can be feather-sexed or sexed through any other visual clues. Each of these chicks has the same dad, a silver phoenix rooster, but different moms: a white crested black polish hen, a splash blue...
  15. newchickychick

    Toe count - genetic?

    So one of our mystery chicks from Cackle Hatchery was a Crazy Cackle Toppie. It's got a really fun personality so far. But I noticed it's got five toes on one foot (the one splits into two horizontally where Silkies' toes do) but on the other foot, it only has four toes. I was just mildly...
  16. RossAcres

    ALERT! We have a genetic anomaly!

    Prepare yourselves. I have a suprise. I just hatched out a SILVER Cayuga. That's right. A SILVER Cayuga. Their parent stock are black Cayugas. I was under the impression that Cayugas were black and only black. But this little guy just hatched out and he is silver. I'm talking with all of my...
  17. newchickychick

    Newbie question - frizzle x frizzle carrier?

    Let me preface with I definitely know to never cross frizzle x frizzle! <3 We've ordered some frizzle bantam cochins. "therefore it is possible to order frizzles and receive some chicks that do not appear to be frizzled, although they carry the frizzle gene." this is on the website about it. So...
  18. Kimballs Coops

    Lavender/Paint Silkie Genetics

    Hello! I’m new to this and am planning on breeding silkies next year. I’m trying to plan all my separate pens. I wanted to have white silkies and lavenders. So I was going to get a white split lavender rooster with white only girls. Then I saw paints and realize I really want those too! Some...
  19. Fallenone05

    who is my momma?

    Hello! I hatched a chick who started solid blue but now has some gold leakage, specifically on his head. The dad is a blue copper marans. momma hens are any of these; The chick in question; There's also this little weirdo - she has black popping up but also red?? I'm wondering if my buff...
  20. Livia Ammon

    What genetics do these chickens have?

    I had a pretty black and white roo with cream feathers on his hackles, and bred him against an orange hen with black Colombian markings. They are both Whiting True Blues. I have 6 of their offspring in an incubator ready to hatch, but I can’t contain my curiosity about what color(s) they will...
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