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It remains very difficult to take a good picture of this chick. I'm reasonably certain he's a boy now, though. The comb is darkening a lot, and he's acting bossier. I am still uncertain if that messy pattern on him will turn into barring or not. Some of his feathers have red tips, some have...

Yep! So I did go ahead and get the wing pictures (I got one for every unusual chick I specifically believe to be from the barred hens (three, including the oldest one). The thing is there are some black, white, and blue chicks but most of them seem to be Brahma mixes of some kind. The few that...

I have another update, sooner than I'd thought. Attached are pictures of two of the chicks, a known Brahma cross chick and one I know for a fact came out of a cuckoo barred hen. The thing is, the two 3 week old chicks that came from the cuckoo barred hens (which I'm no longer sure are marans...

Actually I did end up going back and getting a picture of one of the darker chipmunks + the other cuckoo hen daughter (For her, it's size that makes me suspect her, since all of their chicks seem to get bigger faster) and somewhat color as well as not having any feathered feet and a single comb...

So! @NatJ It is update time! the first one up there is a Brahma chick I think, second one came from our cuckoo barred hen and I am almost certain her father was the blue (or Khaki! because I did go and research a bit and he looks like he is actually Khaki. I had edited that post but I'm not...

I didn't know that hens could produce mostly one or the other, that's super cool actually! I have a sneaking suspicion so far at least, that Matilda (one of my cuckoo girls) may give me more hens than roos though, if that is the case. None of her chicks, since they're not barred, can be boys...

So I've been playing around in the calculator again, the cross-breeding one, (And I do quickly fall out of my depth of understanding and just put in random things😅) but I did get it to generate chicks that are varieties of colors (Though I do not think any of my birds are chocolate and I do not...

I will check these specific ones out for sure more in the coming days. I have been very busy indeed with the bunch of chicks, and my roommate took a bunch of pictures to add as my camera hasn't been working so well! To add text though and context to some of these new patterns showing...

Yeah, these birds are a whole mess genetically, I think! Not that that's a bad thing, they are still cute though. I'll get some better Brahmas eventually but these ones have grown on me a lot, even if they aren't pure. They're still friendly and they lay very well! Anyway, that's good to know...

Despite me being positive (so far) that that chick is female, I do still worry. After all, if I'm wrong I definitely need to go back to the drawing board! :th So far behavior-wise she does this odd thing where she tries to cluck, despite being about 3 weeks old at this point, when offered food...

I am positive about the mother on the chick I think is a hen, yes! She is the only one who lays eggs that size and hers are a shade paler than the only other one who lays em that big (And she's also barred). And I am also fairly positive on the father, as the other options are an Ayam...

Yes, the egg he came out of was a really lovely green one! Also I hadn't heard of favacaunas but they sound (and look) adorable! If he is a favacauna that would be super cool honestly, his colors really do resemble faverolle boys but the rest of his shape is not right. Also ever since I saw a...

One of the babies actually does have less of a chipmunk pattern than the other, and granted the mom is a different hen but so far we are leaning towards thinking he's the boy! I'll keep posting pictures as they mature, too, since I'm very invested (and I plan to put that rooster with some of the...

That is super cool!! I do love EEs, I guess I just hadn't thought about how much that could change the outcomes! Does that mean that EE colors can overcome the barring gene too, then? Or does that mean I've got a little hen there, since she doesn't have the barring and I'd expect it on a...

Update to their colors! They've got yellowish patches but are mostly white on their fluff, one is getting feathered feet though which tells me the mother of this one is actually one of my buff Brahmas! Somehow, despite that they both have very very similar colors and patterns coming in, making...

I hadn't considered wheaten but I do know he did kinda look like a salmon faverolle, even though I'm pretty sure he isn't one (Note: I could be wrong, he might be mixed with faverolle? He came out of a green egg though)! Here's a couple of pics that better show him off (he is my favorite boy...

Hello I am new here and I have a question that I haven't been able to figure out the answer to (and it might be a simple answer, but I'm also new to having my own birds). I've attached pics, I hope I've done it right, of the birds in question, though the newest one is still in the incubator and...