Yeah there've been a couple that have me scratching my head too for sure! Of the three who displayed chipmunk or close to chipmunk patterns that were nearly identical as fluffy chicks, one is primarily black with orange/buff coloring coming in(regular blue feet), one is blue/buff...
Thank you so much for your continued input, genuinely! I am having a lot of fun and learning quite a bit along the way.
Only a couple of quick updates this time, because it's harder to catch and photograph individuals these days (and also we think a snake got a couple :( but we reinforced...
It remains very difficult to take a good picture of this chick. I'm reasonably certain he's a boy now, though. The comb is darkening a lot, and he's acting bossier.
I am still uncertain if that messy pattern on him will turn into barring or not. Some of his feathers have red tips, some have...
Yep!
So I did go ahead and get the wing pictures (I got one for every unusual chick I specifically believe to be from the barred hens (three, including the oldest one). The thing is there are some black, white, and blue chicks but most of them seem to be Brahma mixes of some kind. The few that...
I have another update, sooner than I'd thought. Attached are pictures of two of the chicks, a known Brahma cross chick and one I know for a fact came out of a cuckoo barred hen.
The thing is, the two 3 week old chicks that came from the cuckoo barred hens (which I'm no longer sure are marans...
I'd also assume black copper Marans went into it, but I'm still learning and new to all these things (and the one bird I had that might've laid green eggs turned out to be a rooster so now I've got to wait for his daughters and hope he passes it down 😭 ).
Anyway it'd be super cool to see the...
First time letting the ducklings outside n of course Goose (my cuddliest rooster) had to b involved.
He let them crawl all over him n it was adorable but also they're already so big and it's only been -- what, two weeks I think? edit: No, it's just been roughly over a week.
Anyway I haven't had...
Actually I did end up going back and getting a picture of one of the darker chipmunks + the other cuckoo hen daughter (For her, it's size that makes me suspect her, since all of their chicks seem to get bigger faster) and somewhat color as well as not having any feathered feet and a single comb...
So! @NatJ
It is update time!
the first one up there is a Brahma chick I think, second one came from our cuckoo barred hen and I am almost certain her father was the blue (or Khaki! because I did go and research a bit and he looks like he is actually Khaki. I had edited that post but I'm not...
Oh they're all adorable!! Thank you for sharing, I especially love when they've just fluffed out! They look so silly when they're still all damp. What breed are they? 😍
I didn't know that hens could produce mostly one or the other, that's super cool actually! I have a sneaking suspicion so far at least, that Matilda (one of my cuckoo girls) may give me more hens than roos though, if that is the case. None of her chicks, since they're not barred, can be boys...
So I've been playing around in the calculator again, the cross-breeding one, (And I do quickly fall out of my depth of understanding and just put in random things😅) but I did get it to generate chicks that are varieties of colors (Though I do not think any of my birds are chocolate and I do not...
I will check these specific ones out for sure more in the coming days. I have been very busy indeed with the bunch of chicks, and my roommate took a bunch of pictures to add as my camera hasn't been working so well!
To add text though and context to some of these new patterns showing...
I would also be interested in this! Their looks can change so drastically n it'd be cool to learn more about how their patterns show what they'll look like as grownups😃
They're about 3 weeks as of now! It's not as visible in that picture but both are getting pure white feathers on their chests and a super cool pattern that I can't tell the exact color of on their wings and tails. I'm having so much fun watching them grow :wee