I bought 12 hatching eggs from craigslist seller (5 green/blue and 7 brown). She said she had blue/green eggs from her Easter Egger hens and Brown eggs from her Rhode Island Red hens. There is only 1 rooster on the property - a RIR.
10 eggs hatched (3 green and 7 brown), but the chicks are not what I expected. 7 came from supposedly RIR eggs, but many of the chicks are striped. I'm not really dissappointed, but would like to know what they are. I contacted the seller and she has no clue - she bought the hens from someone who said they were RIRs and they are a solid reddish color.
Any ideas as to what the following chicks could be mixed with when both parents look like RIRs? I am correct, aren't I? They are not RIR chicks? The 2 dark ones are EEs - 1 of the other 8 is also and EE, but I can't figure out which one.
So you can see the eggs:
10 eggs hatched (3 green and 7 brown), but the chicks are not what I expected. 7 came from supposedly RIR eggs, but many of the chicks are striped. I'm not really dissappointed, but would like to know what they are. I contacted the seller and she has no clue - she bought the hens from someone who said they were RIRs and they are a solid reddish color.
Any ideas as to what the following chicks could be mixed with when both parents look like RIRs? I am correct, aren't I? They are not RIR chicks? The 2 dark ones are EEs - 1 of the other 8 is also and EE, but I can't figure out which one.
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So you can see the eggs:
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