Genetics Oddities Thread

[MysteryChicken]

She is a pretty girl

Thanks.
She's also completely sterile. She doesn't lay eggs.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hey, @troyer do you have pictures of solid dun chicks? I've got 2 odd colored ones that I would like to compare to figure if that's what I'm seeing.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@troyer
Not sure my first tag worked.

 

[troyer]

Hey, @troyer do you have pictures of solid dun chicks? I've got 2 odd colored ones that I would like to compare to figure if that's what I'm seeing.

This is a decent compilation.

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is a decent compilation.View attachment 3872969

Just needed a chick down picture.
Blue gray. Similar to what I see, but mine has a brownish tinge. Second I have is a dark bluish gray.

 

[MysteryChicken]

This is a decent compilation.View attachment 3872969

Here's the two. Lighting isn't the best, may try again in natural light outside if it's nice tomorrow.

This one is gonna have barring.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Here was a 2 headed, 3 eyed chick that was in an egg that didn't hatch in my last batch. I decided to try and find why it didn't pip and I clearly found out why.

It has 2 beaks, 3 eyes, and it's brain was exposed.

I have it wrapped in some baggies and put in my deep freezer. I want to find someone who can preserve it for me because it is a kinda cool oddity.

I named it Cyclops because the eye on the front of it's head.

 

[troyer]

Just needed a chick down picture.
Blue gray. Similar to what I see, but mine has a brownish tinge. Second I have is a dark bluish gray.

In natural lighting the chick down does not look blue, it looks brownish gray.

 

[MysteryChicken]

In natural lighting the chick down does not look blue, it looks brownish gray.View attachment 3873078

Your's looks blueish gray on my phone screen.

It does express differently depending on other genes present.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here was a 2 headed, 3 eyed chick that was in an egg that didn't hatch in my last batch. I decided to try and find why it didn't pip and I clearly found out why.

It has 2 beaks, 3 eyes, and it's brain was exposed.

I have it wrapped in some baggies and put in my deep freezer. I want to find someone who can preserve it for me because it is a kinda cool oddity.

I named it Cyclops because the eye on the front of it's head.

Rare siamese twins. Would've been identical twins if the embryo split successfully into two.