Genetics Oddities Thread

[MysteryChicken]

This thread is for oddballs that have popped up during breedings, whether it's a weird color chick/Adult bird, funky comb, toes(Polydactly), egg color, etc...

Here's one of mine to start.

Big Fatty, she's pure Malay, but doesn't look like it, she's just odd. Both parents are full sized, she hatched out of a Jumbo Egg.

She's 6 months old.

Here's the reason behind her name.
The jar is a Pint.

Favorite activity was eating, & sleeping. Just lazy.

Her giant size in the brooder.

 

[Mallard_Bantam]

I have a duck with dichromatic eyes. A lighter brown, with some blueish grey specs. Half Mallard and half Call, her sire is blue eyed, and the right eye has some brown in it. The mother and sibling have typical brown eyes.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a duck with dichromatic eyes. A lighter brown, with some blueish grey specs. Half Mallard and half Call, her sire is blue eyed, and the right eye has some brown in it. The mother and sibling have typical brown eyes.

Interesting.

I primarily made this thread for chickens, but I guess I'll allow ducks too.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Pheonix with somewhat wavy feathers on her chest and back of neck

 

[MysteryChicken]

Pheonix with somewhat wavy feathers on her chest and back of neckView attachment 3362538

That looks like she has a river of feathers on her.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That looks like she has a river of feathers on her.

Kinda does. Wish I could figure out what exactly it is and where she got it. Her mama has lovely tail feathers though, I wonder if her neck and chest feathers are just a smidgen too long to lie flat

 

[MysteryChicken]

Smarty Pants. She's the mother to a very interesting hen I have. Will get to her daughter later.

Smarty Pants's original color is Cuckoo with white under fluff, & Large amounts of white in her wings.


Gotta get updated pictures of her, she decided to start getting more white feathers on her. Beginning with the back of her head. She turns 4 next year in March I think.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Kinda does. Wish I could figure out what exactly it is and where she got it. Her mama has lovely tail feathers though, I wonder if her neck and chest feathers are just a smidgen too long to lie flat

Have you thought about breeding her, or her parents to try to replicate the feathers?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Have you thought about breeding her, or her parents to try to replicate the feathers?

The flock all runs together and she was too young to lay before winter happened this year. She'll go to a pheonix pen in the spring, just not sure which one. Her parents will be in seperate pens though

 

[MysteryChicken]

The flock all runs together and she was too young to lay before winter happened this year. She'll go to a pheonix pen in the spring, just not sure which one. Her parents will be in seperate pens though

Will be neat if she produces more wavy feathered babies.