Thanks for the chicken calculator link! I don't know enough to really use it to reflect an actual bird in my flock yet, but I love that you can click on show the effect of this locus to see what the changes or doesn't in various combinations. Still no word back from the folks who donated the...
So, it sounds like this chick was sired by the red rooster, not the Dominique. And we know that from the lack of barring, is that correct? Then is there anything we can guess or even know about the hen in terms of what color she could or could not have been? I haven't gotten a response from...
Yes, the comb is black, but it is a single comb. For a while I was wondering if it might be part Jersey Giant, but the egg was the same size or even a bit smaller than the other eggs we were given. Those all came from the same hen and hatched nearly identical white chicks, except that two...
I asked them for more info about the potential moms and dads (it was a mystery egg even to them, they didn't know which hen it was from), but I haven't heard back. I do know they have two roos. This one is the dominant one
And another of the same roo:
And this is the "non-dominant"...
Hi, we need some help figuring out what breed this chick might be. We got some brown eggs from another family to put under our broody hen and this is one of them. It didn't have any of the brown when it was first hatched. Was all black with a small amount of cream color in it's lower abdomen...
Ours did this too. They got a lot louder at around 18 weeks and stayed that way until they started laying around 21-24 weeks. Sounds like they're gearing up to give you some eggs.