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My last batch of 1/2 celadons, half snowies produced this chick:
it has no color anywhere, not even the tips of its butt feathers. It is 2 days old and has tons of pins growing on its wings, which you can see thru the yellow, and is the biggest one in the group, so it doesn’t have any health issues so far. When it’s running around in the brooder, I get flashes of being sure it has red eyes. Of course, if it’s albino I don’t want to shine a light right in its eyes to check. This one seems to have pinker eyes than my double silvers which have more dark purple eyes, it’s hard to describe and photograph.
The double silver partial albinos were always small from birth and I had to keep them in sick bay with added supplements and better feed. This guy is thriving as is in the brooder, so far.
Here’s the thing, I’ve never had an albino born to my celadons, and this guy was fathered by my main celadon roo Tiger Millionaire. The hens are a variety from the snowie hatch, 1 pansy, 1 golden Italian, and 5 snowies. 100% of Tigers eggs were fertile this time, and his past hatches were always 95-100% fertile with only normal chicks born, so far he shows no sign of any kind of genetic inbreeding issues that would cause spontaneous mutations in his chicks. The snowies are totally unrelated to him.
I don’t know if you can see the red eyes in the photo, my cell phone lets me down in the color department a lot. I’m not really concerned, I’m excited, hoping for a pen of white meat for the freezer, my double silvers are very hard to raise from chicks, and I’m not prepared space wise to order and hatch Texas a&ms right now because one of my pens is occupied by the snowie celadon project, and I’m already selling my adults as is, in order to free a pen to raise hens for sale in march.
I love hatching, it’s so exciting to see what I get.
it has no color anywhere, not even the tips of its butt feathers. It is 2 days old and has tons of pins growing on its wings, which you can see thru the yellow, and is the biggest one in the group, so it doesn’t have any health issues so far. When it’s running around in the brooder, I get flashes of being sure it has red eyes. Of course, if it’s albino I don’t want to shine a light right in its eyes to check. This one seems to have pinker eyes than my double silvers which have more dark purple eyes, it’s hard to describe and photograph.
The double silver partial albinos were always small from birth and I had to keep them in sick bay with added supplements and better feed. This guy is thriving as is in the brooder, so far.
Here’s the thing, I’ve never had an albino born to my celadons, and this guy was fathered by my main celadon roo Tiger Millionaire. The hens are a variety from the snowie hatch, 1 pansy, 1 golden Italian, and 5 snowies. 100% of Tigers eggs were fertile this time, and his past hatches were always 95-100% fertile with only normal chicks born, so far he shows no sign of any kind of genetic inbreeding issues that would cause spontaneous mutations in his chicks. The snowies are totally unrelated to him.
I don’t know if you can see the red eyes in the photo, my cell phone lets me down in the color department a lot. I’m not really concerned, I’m excited, hoping for a pen of white meat for the freezer, my double silvers are very hard to raise from chicks, and I’m not prepared space wise to order and hatch Texas a&ms right now because one of my pens is occupied by the snowie celadon project, and I’m already selling my adults as is, in order to free a pen to raise hens for sale in march.
I love hatching, it’s so exciting to see what I get.