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OMG I just found images of Yokohama's and they're amazing!!! Oh I hope he gets those long tail feathers!!!Looks like a yokohama mix
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OMG I just found images of Yokohama's and they're amazing!!! Oh I hope he gets those long tail feathers!!!Looks like a yokohama mix
I have a couple birds with colored earlobes, as far as I know, it's just a genetic thing.Can anyone tell me why his earlobes are yellow? I know nothing about True Blues except what I learned here, but I've never seen any chicken images where the rooster had yellow earlobes. It does not appear to be an infection of any kind - close up, his earlobes look perfectly normal except for the coloring. Thoughts anyone??
Chickens that are supposed to have "white" earlobes can have other colors there sometimes. I think I've seen yellow, green, and blue. Something about the way the white is formed, allows other colors depending on what skin color the chicken has. One of the most striking examples is in Silkies, which tend to have bright turquoise-blue earlobes (same genetic mechanism as white earlobes that show other colors, but quite colorful indeed!)Can anyone tell me why his earlobes are yellow? I know nothing about True Blues except what I learned here, but I've never seen any chicken images where the rooster had yellow earlobes. It does not appear to be an infection of any kind - close up, his earlobes look perfectly normal except for the coloring. Thoughts anyone??
Earlobe color can help you tell what breed a chicken is. If you know the breed, you usually know the egg color too. For example, if you have two white chickens with different color earlobes: one with red earlobes might be a White Rock (lays brown eggs), and one with white earlobes might be a White Leghorn (lays white eggs.) But in that example, earlobe color is not the only difference between the breeds. They also have different body shapes & sizes, and lay different numbers of eggs as well as different colors.I've heard some people say the earlobes can predict the egg color? I'm not entirely sure if that's accurate though.
Like several others, I'm thinking Yokohama or Whiting True Blue or some version of Easter Egger.He's absolutely gorgeous but there's no way he's a Buff Orpington. He was part of a straight run of Buff Orpington's although as a chick, he looked exactly like the Orpington's in every respect but suddenly, he's become this gorgeous peacock but I cannot identify the breed. A mix of some sort perhaps???
I purchased them from Tractor Supply about 6 months ago...so somewhere around October??
What's up with that whacky comb and yellow ear lobes??
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Thank you, I didn't know that!Earlobe color can help you tell what breed a chicken is. If you know the breed, you usually know the egg color too. For example, if you have two white chickens with different color earlobes: one with red earlobes might be a White Rock (lays brown eggs), and one with white earlobes might be a White Leghorn (lays white eggs.) But in that example, earlobe color is not the only difference between the breeds. They also have different body shapes & sizes, and lay different numbers of eggs as well as different colors.
Many of the breeds with red earlobes do lay brown eggs because they are somewhat related to each other (so they tend to share earlobe color, body size & shape, egg color, and various other traits as well.) Many of the breeds with white earlobes do lay white eggs, again because they are somewhat related to each other (and tend to share earlobe color, body size & shape, egg colors, a tendency to be very good layers, and various other traits.)
But there are some chicken breeds that break that pattern (examples: Dorkings have red earlobes and lay white eggs, while Penedesencas have white earlobes and lay dark brown eggs.) Mixed breeds can have earlobes that are red, white, or a mixture of the two colors. They can also lay eggs of any color, depending on what traits were in the breeds that were involved in the mix.
Chickens that lay blue or green eggs can also have earlobes that are red, white, or mixed red & white.
There is no genetic reason for any association of earlobe color and egg color. When it does correlate, it is because of what people decided to breed for, or because of what breeds they mixed to make new breeds (if you cross two breeds with matching earlobe colors and matching egg colors, it's not surprising that the chicks inherit the same earlobe and egg colors as both parent breeds.)