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Does anybody know what's going on with the head feathers of this cockerel (16 weeks old)? Some of my other cockerels (not the hens or pullets) show similar head feathers, but their "eyebrows" are much shorter than this and do not stick up that much, iykwim. Despite the foot feathering, vulture...

I am reading a Swedish poultry book which is citing older texts about the appearance of the native farm chickens from the time before "modern" hatchery breeds were imported to Sweden around 1900... very briefly it's stating that "single and double combs were common". Unfortunately there's no...

From what I read it is supposed to do that... but how does the "inhibiting" actually look? I mean is it fully inhibiting the expression of dermal melanin or just partly? I have two barred pullets with kind of "blotchy" darkish spots in the umm "underlayer" of the skin on their shanks and feet...

I recently read that it´s possible to combine the mottling and barring genes in one bird, have never seen a picture of both patterns combined though. So I´m curious how that would look. I can imagine it being quite nifty. Does anyone have a picture or a link?

I have an odd colour question. Usually my roo and his girls produce somehow foreseeable colours for me, but this bird really is a surprise. It´s kind of hard to photograph the true colour since it get´s washed out to white by the flash and in sunlight pictures, but this photo comes very close...

I just love my ´striped´ birds and thought it would be neat to see what this pattern can look like on all kinds of other colours and breeds So if you have some barred, crele or cuckoos of any colour, please show them off. If you know breed and colour, please add so others know which...

I have one hen which hatched out of a speckled egg (off-white with medium brown speckles) and I really liked this colour combination with the unusual speckled look. The young hen does not lay yet she´s just 21 weeks old. So I don´t know yet if she inherited the ´speckled egg gene´ from her...

Yes, there are chicken crazy people all over the world and I´m one of them. I´m 29 and have chickens since about a year. They are a mixture of old-fashioned Swedish farm-breeds from my area, nothing fancy for sure. Calm and cold tolerant small birds, which lay not too many off-white eggs and...