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Skimmed from those posts onwards.. very active thread! To be brutally honest.. that black chick is result of either misidentification of some sort.. or it is isbar-legbar cross (if I skimmed correctly, the person has both breeds right?). All the back and fro about that chick is...

History: did NN egg trade with someone through the mail. To my surprise, ALL of the eggs were blue. No tans, browns or even greens. Clear, solid blue. Thought it was a mistake/miscommunication but hatched them anyways. To my surprise again.. all chicks hatched out NN.. but some also had...

OOps, completely forgot about your question, sorry.. as it is I got to run and pick up baby chicks a friend hatched for me.. have severe chicken dander allergies so I cannot have an incubator in the house.. Will try to remember this time.

I'm still blanking on what causes the clear hackles and thanks! for that detail on NH standard. Does your mentor have clear hackles on roosters and striped on hens very consistently or do they experience similar problem of 'mismarked' hackles as you are and have to set up pairings to account...

"light sussex" pattern is simply a bird usually on either wheaten or partridge plus the Co (columbian) gene which basically clears the main body of the black pigment, restricting it to the tail, neck, primaries. The "light" part refers to the body being white, instead of buff. This is due to...

Thanks for showing pictures! They confirm the exchequers have silver. So that's the sex linkage happening here.. b/w boys, b/r girls. With that much leakage I would guess EL have birchen... the biggest surprise is how clear their legs are. you most definitely will get some black tail...

Good, you are aware n prepared. I would love to see pictures of the F1 plus the chicks as they grow out..

You'll see a whole spectrum.. solid black, leaky blacks, mottled blacks/leakys, black tail whites, also some mottled(can seem solid white if mottling is extensive), black tail buffs, also some mottled, unfortunately chances for mottled buffs is very low... with leaky black(start out black...

Oh! had missed the parentage, So both mother and father are EL and NH crosses? If that's correct then yes you can expect some black tail buffs, mottled black tail buffs. A possible explanation for one chick being lighter is if the EL are silver, it can sometimes lighten the down on wheaten...

That is a variation of wheaten chick down. For reasons I don't fully understand, large/dual purpose breeds based on wheaten often are solid colored but in fighting games, it is normal for their wheaten chicks to have some striping... mainly a single stripe down the middle, starting on the head...

Thank you for this. I'm color blind, apparently dun is not a very easy color for me to notice. I do like your descriptions though, especially of khakis... a brown bird with tan/light tail and neck would be a nice sight I think... is there already a picture of the tan hen with dun tail and...

You have dun, cool! Never worked with dun so this is one gene I know nothing about. Would love dun effects pointed out on some birds?

Are they crosses between Swedish flower hen and amers? afaik, lavender isn't present in flowers.. blue is though. One surefire way to tell if a light colored bird is blue or lavender: if there are *any* darker areas or even a single feather that is plainly darker than rest of body it is...

Lavender does turn the regular red to a straw color.. but it turns the dark red to a rose/pinkish shade. Someone tried to start on a project of lavender show stock RIR- birds so dark they look black, the idea was to see if lavender on those would create pink birds. I also wonder about...

Hm, your pullet seems spottier than some of the hens in the auction picture.. Is it my imagination that the male version is spottier than the female version of the "same bird"? I understand there's a lot of variation all over the place in both sexes but it often seems the roosters tend to...

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I'll talk about my blue eggers later- Slate legs are the worst when yellow legs are the goal because slate requires the dominant white skin plus lacking the Id gene(clears slate to white, clears green to yellow). It is very unlikely to hit on single combed colored eggers if it is linked...

It's very true figuring out the O gene(for blue eggshell) single combed carriers is not so easy. (have had single combed blue/green egger NN for 20+ yrs) I never tried to make a line pure for O.. just didn't try to. That said, I did want to maintain it because the combination of single comb...

Those two hens are gorgeous!!! I'll admit not being a fan of the mille fleur or the typical mottled sussex coloring. used to think I was simply not a fan of mottling but some of your birds like the two above made me realize it might be more of the color pattern/combination rather than...

That chick has the e^b chick down pattern. It's better known as dark brown, as in dark brown leghorns etc. It's a pretty dark color- compare dark brown leghorn with light brown leghorn for example. The suspected mother also looks to be e^b.