🤷♀️. Hatchery could have lied to me - they just came in an assortment, but this hatchery (Mt Healthy) doesn’t list blue orps on their website. They are substantially lighter than my olive egger chick who appears to be blue (with perhaps some barring coming in?)
Either way, the lady who...
Should add - I won’t be keeping all, so if any seem like a better bet to be a pullet, or closer to SOP, let me know. In that order. (I can’t keep roosters 😢).
This was the best I could get? I put arrows toward the more yellowy bits. There were other “dirty gray” patches on the shoulders. Still would characterize them as gray (lavender), just yellow-toned in spots
Just received 3 lavender orpington day-old chicks. Supposed to all be pullets.
One is a more pure silvery color than the other two, which have a bit of blonde tinge to the down here and there.
So here is the question - is that slight color variation potentially sex-linked? Or just an...
I apologize if this is too silly a question for you, but figured I would go straight to the expert.
My olive egger chick has a teeny extra toe growing out of the top of both her outer toes (would be the “pinky toes” were she human). She is from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries and is allegedly and F1...