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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    Meet "Metusalem"... I scrolled through local annonces and stumble upon a post of someone giving away a rooster. As it's rather rare finding à Japanese Bantam around here I contacted the owner. Well, the new king of the coop is "Methusalem" he's a 5 years old (really battered but magnificent)...
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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    and here some of my Millefleurs, it's still quite difficult tohatch or find birds who respect le standards color scheme, which is quite restrictive when it comes to the color pattern.
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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    These are somme of my black pearls and the late rooster
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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    This years breeding session opens with a 50 shades of gray theme. Due to the unexpected death of my nice little black rooster (I think he've gotten in a fight with another one and broke his neck against the coop, I found him lying straight on his back, dead, a hour before he was all well) I put...
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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    For those who are interested, I had some oddly colored wheaten mottled(?) offspring this year. I bought a light yellow mottled hen this spring and bred her to a) a eww blue mille fleur and later to an black eb-millefleur - i got a whole palet off yellow and wheaten mottled hens, not one alike...
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    Photo-collection - Chick down vs mature plumage in Japanese Bantams

    New chicks to follow... MF007 - 100% eB-Millefleur Offspring, 2 mind. 50% eB (I think a second hen was laying at the time, but I'm not sure which one...) The EB millfleur has the charactaristique "black coat", grey belly and golden head, first wing feathers have no motteling MF008 - The...
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    10 week rooster has very strange feathers

    It would be the best outcome for him. Maybe it will resolve later. Many chicken can live with handicaps. I have a little bantam rooster with a leg issue, I won't give him away because of that. I have a boygroup for the roosters until I can rehome them, so he has a lot of company and rather good...
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    10 week rooster has very strange feathers

    In one of my color genetic books it's mentioned, that barred birds might have some sort of retarded feathring, which will resolve with a later mold. On a another note it's mentioned that lavender issued birds can have a feather forming problem which is persisting. I'm not sure about the details...
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    Photo-collection - Chick down vs mature plumage in Japanese Bantams

    The mille fleurs now about 10 weeks old. One has a lot of white, the other less. You see the had of the yellow mottled, who has a nice buff color! All three pullets.
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    Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

    Three little cuties hatched with some difficulties ove the last week. A lot of eggs died on the 18/19 day, I'm not yet sure if it's a genetic problem or external factors. These luckily made it to full term. They are from left to right 5 days, 3 days and 1 day old. One millefleur coulored, the...
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    Chicks dying Day 18/19 - genetics?

    To close this thread... four chicks in total hatched from three different batches. From the last three eggs, two hatched, one ceased to move again around day 19. One was mal positioned and pipped way of the side instead in the aircell, but he made it. Seeing their color I'm not sure on of the...
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    Chicks dying Day 18/19 - genetics?

    I hatched different batches over the year in different conditions, never had a problem like this. Here are 2 succeding batches with the same outcome; but from the same couple. The third currently in lockdown has two eggs from a different couple, we'll see if they have the same problem. If so an...
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    Chicks dying Day 18/19 - genetics?

    I observed that the air cell was huge in those who died in egg. The three remaining have rather small air-cells. Maybe I was inattentiv with humidity rates or the hygrometer is off. @Perris : Thank you for the "late embryonic death" key word, found a lot of infos!
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    Chicks dying Day 18/19 - genetics?

    I had good results under hen and in incubator this year, but the rooster changed and the hens are younger then those in spring. Maybe a combination of less mature birds and season. Luckily one hatched on his own this morning. Three others still moving in egg, day 18/19
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    Chicks dying Day 18/19 - genetics?

    Thought about it, but I think I am not yet up to it 😬 The second one is definitely dead, no movement the last 24h+ while the first one has pipped externally since this morning.
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