The Sugar Cookie Project

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Breeding my hen cookie to get to her standard.

 

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The chicks so far are showing promise but I may get some new Crested cream legbars to breed with Cookie, her full brother Tim, and their father Sampson.

 

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One looks just like Cookie did when she hatched and the other looks exactly like Marshmallow when he hatched.
Cookie and Marshmallow are half siblings whose parents are Sampson, Curry a CCL, and Teryaki who hatched out Cookie's eggs that gave me these chicks. She also hatched out Cookie, Tim, and two of my other hens.

 

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Update on the chicks! The black chick is definitely a rooster and I'm beginning to think the other three are hens. The gold chick is showing the most promise so far and it looks like she may keep her momma's top notch of feathers. She has green legs aswell so we'll see.

Also I noticed something very interesting about the black chick. He has both middle toes half white! I've searched around and I've seen some Easter Eggers with white middle nails but not the skin.

 

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They're looking good! I've been trying to get the chicks to go outside into the run and teryaki and Sampson are trying too but I think Teryaki might have taught them a bit too well that they shouldn't go outside when they were smaller.

The last chicks she hatched she learned they could escape the run and she lost a couple. But this time she was prepared and it backfired on her.

 

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Comparing most promising chick to parents.

Once the new coop is built and I've moved everyone around I'll buy some Crested Cream Legbars. And if this gold chick turns out mostly like her mother then I may breed her back to her grandfather Sampson.

 

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Update on the chicks. They're doing great! I've been handling them while they're on the roost. I still haven't named them but I'm leaning towards Tony for the black & red rooster. I think it's kinda cute that one of the white hens has like 3 tiny feathers on her feet/legs like barely any feather to actually count as booted. The other has a good amount of feathering on her feet/legs that she's definitely booted. The gold and black ones are both bare legged.

One white chick has a crazy looking hairdo. While the other has none. The black and gold have small head poofs.

 

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I was looking back at old photos and found one of cookie around the same age as the new chicks rn.

 

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Chick update
Names in order of pictures

Lacy (Queen Anne's lace)
Daffodil
Honey
Bruce

 

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Chick update