I agree on the naming thing, why is it an Egyptian, does it have anything to do with Egypt? But bacteria are the absolute worst, they rename them about every two years it seems, my theory is there isn't enough work for all the bacteriologists out there so they just rename stuff to look busy...
The wry neck is growing, albeit slowly, the homo silver likewise, the last of the clostridium chicks just faded away a day or two layer, everybody else is doing great and completely baffling me on this color thing. I can handle simple x/y genetics but then you throw in multiple genes and...
Here's the mystery chick at 9 days old, belly/lower feathers coming in solid white, back a cream/beige color. Italian with Blau/Silver plus or minus tuxedo? Definitely not homozygous white!
Okay, let’s make this even more complicated, this is the same batch, only other all yellow chick, but he’s a very light yellow and weird, this is his actual shape, sort of humpybacked and can’t seem to stand up straight and slow growing, feathers all coming in white, dark eyes. Is this guy...
I’ll try and get a better picture on this guy (now 8 days old) but he’s a puzzle. He’s all yellow but has a reddish tinge along the top line/back. I figured he was homozygous English white but his feathers are coming in with a very slight beige tinge (thought they were just dirty at first)...