#genetics

Hello! This spring I purchased what I thought were 7 olive eggers, 3 mystic maran, 3 brahma and 2 americuanas. What I've ended up with are 2 black copper marans, 1 of which is a rooster, and 8 french black marans. However, the black copper maran hen is laying a sage colored egg and the french...

(before reading I wanted to let you know I probably have some grammar mistakes by accident🤣) Hello, I wanted to get some answers on some weird things my chickens have (idk if it's disease, genetics or other. For starters I have 3 chickens currently all are 3 years old and the breeds are barred...

Coloring questions ,I have 6 chicks from this pair. I only got pics of 3 because its the 3 main turnouts. I tried to get a pic of the dads wings but he escaped,so I spent a good 20 mins running around my yard shirtless trying to net him with the only thing I had. Also idk if its just him or all...

Good morning! I have just had a salmon faverolles hen hatch out 4 chicks. The only roosters on site have been buff orpingtons. One chick is white with a little dark dot on its head, and has 4 toes and feathered feet. I suspect it is a rooster from our light brahma hen. Let me know if that sounds...

Hello. Is this life threatening? There are a few issues with my rooster. Beginning with the most urgent, apparently swelling around one eye on one side of his face is a respiratory infection sign. Pictures below. Currently the eye is nearly swollen closed. I posted elsewhere and only got two...

I recently left city life & corporate America after 20+ years and moved to rural southeast Missouri, to restart/rebuild the family farm where my dad grew up. I got my first chickens --4 Dominique hens and a Rooster--from Cackle Hatchery in June 2019. I thought I might expand the flock in 2020...

Ok, I'm a chicken genetics novice. But I need your experienced eyes and minds to help solve this riddle. A black silkie rooster mates with a white cochin hen . They have a chick that is a 50/50 silkie/cochin mix. The black silkie mates with both mother and daughter hens. Two similar sized eggs...

Well I was gifted this lumpy rooster that was said to be a true ameraucana. His coloring is gorgeous but since he’s malformed, he’s destroying the hens because he loses his balance and just grips tighter and attacks them. (no feathers on backs, back of heads, or right shoulder, some getting...

So we had a rooster who was half lavender Orpington & half Cinnamon Queen. I have a hen sitting on 7 eggs he fertilized, the breeds are ISA, Leghorn, and half black orpington (also had a lavender dad). I’m curious what others think could be our outcome. I find genetics in chickens fascinating...

I have a black satin frizzle silkie who is a DNA confirmed pullet by iQ bird testing. She is about 7-8 weeks old and has started developing leakage. I thought only cockerels/ roosters developed leakage. Both parents are black. Please help! Pictures attached