So I fell in love with American Pansy (check thieving otter or pipsnchicks for pics/info) and happily got a nice male in some mixed eggs I hatched this spring, his single fertile egg from his first hatch (just nine weeks old at the time) is now a handsome 6 week old gentleman:
I crossed him with some pearl (Italian fee) hens and got this! AP is supposed to be very recessive, but apparently over Italian in heterozygous form you get ‘chocolate!’ I left him with the same ladies and got 11/15 fertile eggs by waiting a few weeks until he was more mature. The chicks are almost 3 weeks, some are fee and some not, but still a cool looking bird:
You can even feather sex them at this age, they very obviously have spots or clear chests while males have a reddish tinge on the back of the head. I was expecting to wait another generation to get some AP impact on my coloration but I’m tickled with this cross!
I crossed him with some pearl (Italian fee) hens and got this! AP is supposed to be very recessive, but apparently over Italian in heterozygous form you get ‘chocolate!’ I left him with the same ladies and got 11/15 fertile eggs by waiting a few weeks until he was more mature. The chicks are almost 3 weeks, some are fee and some not, but still a cool looking bird:
You can even feather sex them at this age, they very obviously have spots or clear chests while males have a reddish tinge on the back of the head. I was expecting to wait another generation to get some AP impact on my coloration but I’m tickled with this cross!
