HeyContrary
Hatching
- Apr 2, 2025
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Hello!
First post so let me know if I do this wrong or am posting in the wrong place!
I'm from Australia, I have had chickens for about 2 years, I keep my flock small and want to eventually have a little BBS flock (with one exception - a partridge that's become a favourite) currently I only have 1 splash hen, 1 blue hen (with orange leakage around her neck), the partridge, 1 black frizzle X and 1 splash rooster.
I recently hatched out some chicks - first ever time using this rooster, and I made sure I was only hatching eggs from the splash and the blue hens - and I ended up with some weird combinations! Definitely NOT what I was expecting!
I'll post some photos of the parents - and one of the babies, there are 2 other chicks that are odd, one is a blue but with a white belly/neck like a little tuxedo, I have seen other breeds with that colouring as chicks and they usually grow out as a solid colour? Like blue Australorp chicks!
Either way none of the chicks look like previous splashes I have had (and I was expecting mostly splash with the possibility of blues) so I'm wondering if my hen/rooster are actually splash? I hatched the splash hen myself and I am pretty sure she is a splash, but I didn't raise the rooster myself - just so confused!
Please note I am aware they are pet quality and not for showing etc. thanks!
First post so let me know if I do this wrong or am posting in the wrong place!
I'm from Australia, I have had chickens for about 2 years, I keep my flock small and want to eventually have a little BBS flock (with one exception - a partridge that's become a favourite) currently I only have 1 splash hen, 1 blue hen (with orange leakage around her neck), the partridge, 1 black frizzle X and 1 splash rooster.
I recently hatched out some chicks - first ever time using this rooster, and I made sure I was only hatching eggs from the splash and the blue hens - and I ended up with some weird combinations! Definitely NOT what I was expecting!
I'll post some photos of the parents - and one of the babies, there are 2 other chicks that are odd, one is a blue but with a white belly/neck like a little tuxedo, I have seen other breeds with that colouring as chicks and they usually grow out as a solid colour? Like blue Australorp chicks!
Either way none of the chicks look like previous splashes I have had (and I was expecting mostly splash with the possibility of blues) so I'm wondering if my hen/rooster are actually splash? I hatched the splash hen myself and I am pretty sure she is a splash, but I didn't raise the rooster myself - just so confused!
Please note I am aware they are pet quality and not for showing etc. thanks!