The Aloha Chicken Project - Page 65

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Originally Posted by AZ Game Birds 

Here are some of the 5-6 month olds.

The top two photos, I really like the fact your buff spotted ones are still showing white!  I see the top one has yellow legs, too.  :)

But the next photos showing that spotted hen, she looks like she has the less "gamey" body type we're looking for.  And her amount of white is just right!  I wish she was a shade lighter and had yellow legs, but overall she does look different from a regular Speckled Sussex, so that's great.

I just now noticed the one on the top right, behind the head of the buff one . . . that's a lot of white on the back of that hidden chickie.  

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Originally Posted by AZ Game Birds 

Here are some of the 5-6 month olds.

All gorgeous!  But I am really loving the top three in this picture!  The spotted ones all in a row . . . . 

Yet the not very spotted ones (now) might color up BEAUTIFULLY around five months old, so we can't count out ANY of these right now.  :)

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Originally Posted by karenS 

 

 

SO SO CUTE!

You'll be able to tell "for sure" if they are the SFH chicks if any of the show any BLUE.  (Er, which is actually . . . gray.)  I have no blue in any of my current Alohas, but two of the SFH Roosters have blue tails.  So, when those babies feather out, we'll know for sure if they are SFH x Aloha if any of them show blue feathers . . . blue is a simple dominant which means about half of the chicks would show blue feathering instead of black.

I just took a few photos of the babies, it's been a couple of weeks now since my last pics.  A couple of what look to be Sussex-cross roosters are looking especially nice!

This guy is MUCH lighter than my previous half-Sussex roosters.  He is HUGE and has wonderful STOUT body type!  He's heavy and thick, looks like his tail is going to be nice and long.  Best of all, look at all that white!  If he has the Sussex type of spotting, the spots will increase as he matures.  Keeping my fingers crossed . . . if he keeps all the spots, he would be a good rooster to cross with the buff colored daughters of Cheeto . . . . those will carry spots, and this guy shows spots, which means the chicks would be half spotted, and half spotted carriers.

Here's another one, looks like a sibling.  Less black and more red (which is nice!) but on the flip side, a lot less white (bummer) so not sure about this rooster just yet:

If he is the Sussex type spotted, however, he may get MORE white soon.  Versus the Cheeto sons, which unfortunately, are still showing less and less white every day.  (Sigh!)