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.

 

[Egg Snatcher]

Weirdest color chick I’ve ever hatched. He was the only on to hatch out like this. Brown Red Mottled D’Uccles project.

Sadly it was a he. Here is an adult pic of him

 

[JacinLarkwell]

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

 

[JustBabyMargo]

Mother (I wish I had a better picture):

Daughter:

Each have one gold eye and one brown eye. Out of the three daughters we hatched from Coco, the mother, this girl is the only one that it passed down to.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Rooster who almost looks fawn silver duckwing. His parents were both from tractor supply and appeared to be white and red pyle. My current theory is the red pyle hen was actually khaki gold duckwing, though it’s surprising that I got that color from tsc.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Her father was either two mixes (with no barring in the background) or a hatchery white orpington (Not sure where the barring would have come from there either though).

(Oops about the pronoun switch)
If the orp is recessive white, he could potentially be hiding barring, though that seems a bit unlikely unless the hatchery also carries cuckoo orps. The only other explanation I can think of is that a barred rooster somehow had access to the mother at some point. Keep in mind that hens can store sperm for a surprisingly long time.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's Smarty Pants's Daughter, Sassy Pants.

Timeline:
2020-2021

2022
(Always had white in wings, never had white under-fluff, just a note)

Pictures Continued: 2022

Almost done

Complete transformation

 

[JustBabyMargo]

Not sure if this really counts or not, but I had this pair, and when bred together, the males were white and the females were black, even though they were both white. It was like this weird sex-linking. I didn’t hatch enough to be completely sure, but I hatched 6. The first time I hatched 2 cockerels (white) and 3 pullets (black). The last time, I hatched one and it was a male and it was white.

Parents:

Males:
First hatch-

Last hatch-

Females:

Maybe it’s not that odd, but I thought it sure was strange…