The Tetra Tint thread.. (Photos, info) ❤

[MineAlways]

ok, allow me to show you my roo. ive shown him before, but since you havent seen any roos then you must not have seen my pictures.

Thanks for posting again I did miss him in the past post! I thing thats the only roo I have seen. I wouldnt be able to tell from the comb or waddles because both of my girls have huge red ones. But I know they are both girls because they are both laying as we speak lol.

But thanks again he is a pretty handsome boy!


I am wondering if anyone has hatched 2nd gen tetra tints? Did they breed true or are they like tomatoes cant save the seed of a hybrid.

 

[zinia8]

Thanks for posting again I did miss him in the past post! I thing thats the only roo I have seen. I wouldnt be able to tell from the comb or waddles because both of my girls have huge red ones. But I know they are both girls because they are both laying as we speak lol.

But thanks again he is a pretty handsome boy!


I am wondering if anyone has hatched 2nd gen tetra tints? Did they breed true or are they like tomatoes cant save the seed of a hybrid.

nope won't breed true. they are hybrids. I would like to find a tetra roo just to see what kinda mutts they would be.

 

[zinia8]

any new egg layers?

 

[goldies99]

oh my gosh..YES...i got my first egg from one of my tints!!!,,,i think she is only 17 weeks...(unless the guy i got them from was wrong about the age)....it was a tiny, but perfect egg!!!!....very light beige...almost white egg!

 

[yoie]

No new egg layers, but I do have a little TetraTint X Cochin mix that is growing up quite cute! It is colored just like its mom, but feathered like dad. Just had to share.

 

[goldies99]

what a cutie...look at the feather feet!!!

 

[zinia8]

ya congrats on eggies. Yoie very very cute love those feet, did Tetra start to molt? I have one that is in a heavy molt she is just about naked and one that is starting.

 

[LilyWhite]

Give them time because I have 5 hens which looked like hens at 11 weeks old and they got around 15 and got big combs and waddles and then I thought they were roosters and then I got eggs at 17 weeks haha They are very tricky little creatures

 

[goldies99]

your right about them being tricky lilywhite.....i thought one of mine was a rooster....but she is not laying a nice beige egg...she is the one that loos "dirty".....the one that is almost all white lay an almost white egg, it only has a hint of color to it.........its funny to see the different color eggs each chicken will lay

 

[cadeschicks]

I'm driving myself nuts checking for eggs several times a day, but still nothing. They're almost 17 weeks old, I wish they would get on with it already.

This is the one I posted a picture of a few weeks ago convinced it was a rooster because of the pointy tail feathers. Now after molting she is sporting some very un-pointy tail feathers (what a relief!)


This is my candidate for "most likely to lay the first egg". She did the egg squat when I petted her several times today.


I just know they are waiting until I go out of town in a few weeks so they can dazzle the pet sitter with the joy of finding the first egg.