The original hens all had ivory colored legs with tan beak while the original rooster had yellow legs with a tan beak., the F1 gen had pure black beaks and ivory/grayish colored legs, and now their chicks are all yellow legs with black beaks.
Over the past year or two I have experimented in breeding my chickens, all of my F0 birds beaks were tan with little to no black at all. In all of the initial offspring they had solid black beaks and the continuing generations of offspring show the same pure black beak. What caused the black...
This summer I decided to incubate a few eggs to replenish our flock after some different predators reduced us down to four hens.
The first batch I did had 7 eggs, four of which hatched. These chicks would not make it, I did not properly secure the coop and a raccoon had its way. After I served...