Creating a Paint pen using just one Paint male. I will share the journey here and hope those that have crossed Paints onto other varieties or are breeding Paints will share their experiences too.
I hatched one Paint chick out of a batch of Catdance eggs a year and a half ago. He languished by himself in the Silkie bachelor pen until this Spring. I didn't plan on using him because I thought I needed a Black or Paint hen to get Paint offspring.
As a project, I put him with a quad of recessive White hens that were not being used in other White pens. I had the space and thought, what the heck? Give the boy a chance and see what happens.
This is what happened between him and a couple white hens that were laying at the time.
All colored chicks! Holy Carp! Two of them were clearly dominate white with tiny black visible spots!
This is Daper Dan. My one and only Paint male. Hatched from a Catdance egg.
He is rough and dirty with a trimmed bum. He is a rowdy and ready guy that is not pampered.
He has an even distribution of spots over his body but one large black spot across his back. Partially hidden by his heavy hackle.
His comb is slightly light but nicely shaped. His beard and muff are straggly. The hens like to pick at his beak and face. He loves the ladies.
His F1 are a test mating. I love what he produced with those two hens so he is back with three of my best Recessive Whites now.
First three to hatch. Two chipmunk marked and one Paint.
Last five to hatch. Two more chipmunk marked, two Black, and one more Paint.
At three weeks old they now are getting juvenile feathering.
First Black chick is turning Charcoal or Smoky. Or is this Blue?
Orange zip. Nice chick. Lacks middle toe feathering.
Second black chick with a pink zip.
Also a nice chick.
Chipmunk colored chick looking silver partridge. Blue zip
Nice chick. That lack of middle toe feathering is going to be hard to fix in further F pens.
Second chipmunk colored chick with a green zip. Darker version of the silver partridge looking chick.
Third chipmunk colored chick has brown coming in.
Pink zip on this little one.
Forth chipmunk colored chick is brown and silver. Interesting. It did not want to sit still...
...And then PLUNK. It decided to take a rest. Nice chick with a yellow zip.
I'll post images of the two Paint chicks later on. They are slow to feather.
Eventually I will breed my Paint cock to a quality Black hen but for now, these babies are giving me a lot of joy.
I hatched one Paint chick out of a batch of Catdance eggs a year and a half ago. He languished by himself in the Silkie bachelor pen until this Spring. I didn't plan on using him because I thought I needed a Black or Paint hen to get Paint offspring.
As a project, I put him with a quad of recessive White hens that were not being used in other White pens. I had the space and thought, what the heck? Give the boy a chance and see what happens.
This is what happened between him and a couple white hens that were laying at the time.
All colored chicks! Holy Carp! Two of them were clearly dominate white with tiny black visible spots!
This is Daper Dan. My one and only Paint male. Hatched from a Catdance egg.
He is rough and dirty with a trimmed bum. He is a rowdy and ready guy that is not pampered.
He has an even distribution of spots over his body but one large black spot across his back. Partially hidden by his heavy hackle.
His comb is slightly light but nicely shaped. His beard and muff are straggly. The hens like to pick at his beak and face. He loves the ladies.
His F1 are a test mating. I love what he produced with those two hens so he is back with three of my best Recessive Whites now.
First three to hatch. Two chipmunk marked and one Paint.
Last five to hatch. Two more chipmunk marked, two Black, and one more Paint.
At three weeks old they now are getting juvenile feathering.
First Black chick is turning Charcoal or Smoky. Or is this Blue?
Orange zip. Nice chick. Lacks middle toe feathering.
Second black chick with a pink zip.
Also a nice chick.
Chipmunk colored chick looking silver partridge. Blue zip
Nice chick. That lack of middle toe feathering is going to be hard to fix in further F pens.
Second chipmunk colored chick with a green zip. Darker version of the silver partridge looking chick.
Third chipmunk colored chick has brown coming in.
Pink zip on this little one.
Forth chipmunk colored chick is brown and silver. Interesting. It did not want to sit still...
...And then PLUNK. It decided to take a rest. Nice chick with a yellow zip.
I'll post images of the two Paint chicks later on. They are slow to feather.
Eventually I will breed my Paint cock to a quality Black hen but for now, these babies are giving me a lot of joy.