I got a peculiar chick, maybe albino

[FloorCandy]

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.

 

[KingD]

Looks like a pretty normal looking chick to me.
I'm interested to see what it turns out to be as well though!

 

[Ravenlover]

My last batch of 1/2 celadons, half snowies produced this chick:

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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.

U gonna breed this possible albino to see if u can get one that can see ?

 

[FloorCandy]

U gonna breed this possible albino to see if u can get one that can see ?

I’m not sure if this one can see, but I plan to cross it back to Tiger if it lives and is a hen, in hopes of having some meat birds. Tiger is my biggest bird so I’m dreaming of big fat birds filling my freezer with white meat haha.

there’s also the possibility it might have very very lightly tinted feathers that will darken. When pebble was young and not feathering correctly,she looked like she was gonna be a very faint gray snowie, but once her internal issues subsided and she started growing like normal, her feathers darkened and now she looks like a pearl with feathers so dark gray they’re black. Either way, it certainly isn’t normal from what I’ve seen, for a pharaoh and a bunch of varrying Italians to produce a bird with no color at all, so either it’ll grow up white, or there’s something unseen causing this manifestation of no color.

 

[Nabiki]

That doesn't look like an albino to me. I don't see any red in the eyes, and I see some pigment in the wing.

 

[FloorCandy]

That doesn't look like an albino to me. I don't see any red in the eyes, and I see some pigment in the wing.

I looked at that patch in the wing, it’s just pins looking filled with blood, yesterday he didn’t have the dark areas. I’m on the fence with the eyes, like I said, sometimes I see it running and I’m like, they’re definitely red, but I pick it up and can’t tell. As the snow angels got older and their eyes got bigger it was easier to see, so I’ll be watching as it grows.

 

[Sammi_0411]

No black spot like a texas a&m? Xx

 

[FloorCandy]

No black spot like a texas a&m? Xx

None so far, but I’m looking for any signs of very faint silver popping up.

 

[Sammi_0411]

Mine texas am but they were born with the black spots x

 

[FloorCandy]

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