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Hen feathered rooster? Most of those pictures still look male to me. The comb looks large and reddish in some pictures, the neck looks like it has thin hackle feathers. The saddle feathers don't look like a rooster, but otherwise I'd think that was a boy.

The adult plumage looks like it matches her chick down. She may have to become a house chicken. If she is actually rare - or the mythical pied chicken - then she is destined to die of a dumb accident. Drowning in a teaspoon of water, hanging herself on chicken wire. And I know for a fact that...

Sadly I sold him a couple of weeks ago. I've been cycling out a new rooster every month or so this year just for fun in this pen. This chick was out of the last round that hatched from him. I was hoping he was Wheaten based. When I got Duckwing chicks he moved along. Then this hatched and I'm...

This chick hatched out of a Cubalaya project pen. I wish I could tell you more about its color background. Mom was either a black or blue Cubalaya. The blacks and blues are from a Wheaten flock so the odds are very good they carry Wheaten. Cubalaya-Wheaten, not regular Wheaten. Dad was a...

That is interesting. Any idea why he breeds to have a flat comb? Edit: I remember reading something about a rose comb having a lethal gene effect or low fertility or something like that. Is he trying to avoid that issue? Is that even an actual issue?

Not right now. But I did find this fellow on BYC and he looks like a younger version of my guy: https://www.backyardchickens.com/hredirect2.php?image=6413920

I just did a Google search for blue barring and it looks like there are a lot of examples of what he looks like. So what is going on with it? Why doesn't the barring affect the entire body like it would with black or red?

Is that typical of blue barring or are there weird genetics at play? If I cross him with some solid blues, will I get more of him or fully barred birds?

I have a blue barred EE rooster that I have assumed to be pretty straightforward: he is barred and he is blue. But tonight I caught him up and discovered that ONLY his hackles, saddle, wings, and parts of his tail are barred. ie. The darker parts. The lighter parts (chest, body, most of his...

The book is your best bet. With that being said, with Wyandottes, you can read it for free in the 1921 version. Not a whole lot has changed between then and now so this will at least give you a starting point until you decide to do more...

Hrm, I may need to do some research on this forum and/or start a new thread. I plan on hatching out a bunch of chicks again this year for the freezer and as replacements and planned on putting away the culls at five months. It looks like there might be a toss-up between young enough to fry or...

How long do you recommend holding onto slow-growing cockrels like this Brahma before making a decision like that? Six months? A year? When would he likely grow out of a crooked tail?

That is interesting. I didn't know Dominant White affected non-white colors, as well - even to a lesser degree. This is why we need you color gurus. Each time I think I've figured something out I find out I know way less than I thought. :) Thanks for the information. That helps me decide what...

He's a pretty heavy boy - not what I would expect out of a Leghorn. He also isn't neurotic and I tend to associate that flighty personality with Leghorns. But just because he's pretty chill and larger doesn't mean Leghorn isn't part of his pedigree. What about the hackles? If it is D. White...

Color gurus, what do you think this color pattern is? Would Dominant White do something like this? The hackles are golden so I didn't think it'd be Dominant White, though the tail and wing makes it look that way. I don't know anything about his background. I was at a swap, saw him in a cage...

I am not sure what it could be. I found an article that said it could be worms. She is definitely not egg bound so you can scroll past that part of the thread here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-walking-like-a-penguin.1180008/ I would recommend posting the video in the...

There is probably a FB group. I am one of six people left in America that doesn't use FB, so I couldn't guide you to any of those. As for forums, this is the most active Cubalaya forum I've come across so far.

You got it :) If I'm remembering correctly, the actual color for Cubalayas is cinnamon. In America, we lump it in with wheaten (the girls are a dark wheaten), and the color is called BBR by the American Poultry Association. What you have is an actual red duckwing (ie BBR) Cubalaya - not a...

If they had a chipmunk look to them then they are BBR. Cubalayas are wheatens that are called BBR to confuse everyone. But I've seen Cackle Hatchery's bantam Cubalayas and a lot of them actually are BBRs. Recently they broke their birds out into separate breeding flocks so the ones that look...

The comb isn't right for an OEG so they might be bantam Cubalayas. Where did you get them?