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Fur N Feathers, that chick with the one loud spot is beautiful. Yes. Sometimes I get a chick that has the lack of feathered middle toe too. Your teenager paint with extreme foot feathering is amazing! Nice! Zoofee, your roo is gorgeous! Love him. I get an occasional chipmunk patterned chick...

Chicks still hatching in a staggered fashion. The last couple dozen eggs under hens and in the incubator are from a Lavender, Partridge, and my best recessive white pullet. Most of the White's eggs have been blank. Dapper Dan just is not much interested in her. Today four chicks hatched. Two...

I'm really hoping this chick will have a lot of red over blue. It is unlike any other hatched yet. Male or female, it's one I'm keeping around for a while.

One of the oldest paint chicks. About nine weeks old now and a male.

More Paint x Lavender = lavender chick and two Paint x Blue Partridge = ? Third lav (self blue) chick is stunning. Large vaulted skull and flecked with darker blue. Is it going to be a lavender paint? Paint x Blue Partridge = Blue/Red partridge? Never had a silkie chick with this down...

I am loving all these Paint x chicks. It is blowing my mind because here I thought it was going to be next to impossible to get paint chicks from all the 'not paint' hens I've been breeding him to. He must be split to lav right? How on earth did I get these two gorgeous lavender chicks other...

First chicks from my Catdance lavender hen hatched this morning! My paint male is surpassing all expectations. Two lavender chicks and one black split to lavender. They are beautiful just like all of his offspring are. I was not expecting to get lavender chicks first try. This is my lavender...

I have lost silkie chicks every time I've allowed a hen to keep them. This hatching season, I've removed all chicks and raised them in my brooder houses. I turn the heat source off at two weeks and turn them out during the day, in at night. If night time temp reaches below sixty, I turn the heat...

I'm sorry you lost another baby. That is sad. It was pretty. It is really confusing that all the chicks from the little red hen are paint. She has hatched three colored chicks when bred to a recessive white silkie and that was expected. This is Heather. This is one of her silkie cross babies...

The last eight chicks that hatched white with spots and no spots have completely baffled me. Half of them are from my bantam Rhode Island Red hens! I set eggs from them by my paint male and was expecting colored chicks. I thought these chicks would be used for my Red Silkie project. Four of the...

Asked the question on a genetics and color forum about paint x recessive white and an answer that makes sense to me is this hen carries dominate white hidden. Hooked up with my dominate white based paint male likely produced all these paint and white chicks without any colored chicks among...

Two more paint chicks this morning. Six total white/paint chicks in this batch. It seems all have faint spots to loud spots. A couple are very silvery. I'm making a note in my journal that the recessive white hen for these chicks throws all white/paint chicks so far. A couple are very silvery...

This chick #5 just hatched and seemed to have just the one big spot on it's tush but turning the flash off on the camera reveals more. There are two black smudges under each wing. This chick has very light skin in patches on it's body, light beak and feet. Not as good middle toe...

Not yet. My oldest paint chicks are about eight to ten weeks. I think two of three paint chicks are male. I don't have any Lavender split chicks hatched yet. Yep. I have to use what I have too.

Spent the better part of the morning digging up info on white. Much of it is in geneticist jargon that is not as important to me personally than simple explanations that can be transferred as knowledge into my own breeding pens within my own strains. What is suspected about paint is that it...

This is a very interesting subject! I'm glad you asked. There is a lot to talk about with this subject, especially regards to using Paint (based on dominate white) I will tell you with the hundreds of white chicks I have raised over the years, there is a wide range of shading with them (chick...

Thank you. It is so small and so perfect. Two of the other chicks including the RIR x chick show faint spots! Another ten eggs due to hatch over the next few days. Two more paint chicks would give me a total of six for my starter paint pen. That's the goal for this year. My paint male is on...

Oh that's so awful when the babies don't make it. I lose them too under the broody's. Usually when two hens squabble over eggs while they are hatching. Your grow out babies are gorgeous. I love them! I had four hatch this morning from a different recessive white hen and one cross with a...

I did the seventh day candling of eighteen eggs in the incubator. Ten were infertile. *ugh* Not good percentages for my Paint male. I'm going to have to set twice as many eggs for a decent hatch. I started removing him from the pen every other day and feeding him a can of cat food daily. Trying...

I have a question about the fertility of Paint males. Here and there I've read some Paints lack in the good fertility ratio's. I've notice my male is very particular to my BRIR and will chase them all day if given the chance. And then I've watched him ignore Silkie hens that just about squat...