I'd be very interested to see what happens with this combination. I can assume what would happen but sometimes you just don't know until the animal is in front of you. I have the "ingredients" for this experiment but as with all things chicken, nothing is fast and time is money.
Last year I kept my small flock of Australorp hens in with my Hamburgs and decided to hatch a couple of eggs from the Australorp hens out of curiosity. The other chicks developed as expected, but I've kept this one cockerel around because he perplexes me. Would this insinuate that one of my...
I've separated him from the rest of the flock to prevent him getting picked on. My birds were treated with a few rounds of ivermectin only a month or so ago, so I can't imagine this is from mites. But I also haven't the faintest how he managed to injure the dorsal side of each accessory...
My grandmother has a small, modest farm. She works hard on her garden and grows most of the vegetables her family eats. She knows that I love my chickens, so she asked if I could help her get some chickens because she really wants brown eggs for her family.
I'd like to really blow her socks off...
Not looking for any possible hidden recessives. Essentially I want to know if what I am seeing is a partial spangled pattern or if it is the by-product of something else.
Thanks!