Oh wow, what a nice surprise! I've got these two little ones (~6 weeks old) who I was trying to compare with yours, hehe. The slightly bigger comb size of the lighter one has me suspicious but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they're both pullets too. Congrats on the first egg, Blackbird!
Update #1: Here are some pictures of little Rocky Raccoon at almost a month old! Barring has started showing up in patches over the past week, so right now he/she is looking like quite the little mash-up 😅
I guess the follow-up question is: unless the mom was a cuckoo Ameraucana (or some kind of barred Easter Egger), there's probably no way this chick came from an Ameraucana/Wyandotte crossing, right?
Interesting - thank you for answering! So the chick in the pictures... Would that just be some sort of 'messy' barring? I'm not actually seeing multiple "bars" per feather yet, just white on the feather tips. (And as far as I know there's no surprise crested gene going on)🤔
Hi all! Question: does a white spot on a dark chick's head always indicate barring or cuckoo genetics are present? I know it's not always indicative of sex depending on which parent(s) are barred or cuckoo. But can a chick just have a white spot without it meaning anything? Or is that white spot...
Yikes!! Yeah I have another girl who's just started to go broody and I'm already thinking she's going to be like yours. I haven't seen her leave the nest once in the past 5 days, and when I checked on her yesterday her face was covered in yolk. [Side note: only today did I notice an egg had...
@igorsMistress It's honestly going so well! Mama is super protective and attentive, and it's been amazing to watch her teaching them everything. The two kiddos are already leaps and bounds ahead of where my brooder babies were at the same age last year. I still keep Mama and babies in their own...