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I’d be interested to know if the red flares are a strictly male trait, or some of the girls can have that coloration as well? Someday I’d love to have one hen with red flares, if it exists! I think it’d be a pretty combo.

Ohhh really .... 🤔 (Having a chicken math attack ....)

Did you have to order 20? Seems Hoover’s changed their order requirements within the last few months or so, last I looked!

Hello, welcome! pretty girl! I think I read they were originally bred to be a specialty meat or dual purpose bird? So that kinda makes sense about the fast growth.

The chickie looks black-skinned so labeled wrong perhaps?

So from what I’ve read, tentatively males might have some red shades in the black, and tentatively females are all solid black, so maybe ...? As an aside, well a complaint/whining - my local TSCs appear not to be using Hoover’s at all this year and have not been having much variety other than...

keep us up to date!! Turns out my TSC is getting chicks from elsewhere this year. Of course this happens, because I had a wishlist all prepared for if I came across particular breeds from Hoover’s for this year!

Yes please! Please remind me - did you get sexed or straight run? I was hoping to grab a Mystic Onyx and other Hoover breeds this year from my TSC (had a wishlist and everything), but it seems they switched suppliers :hit

All good info to read about! Thanks!

Oooh yeah! Definitely want one if they show up at my TSC! And yeah, based on description- it mentions having flares of orange and possible crests - the Ramblers are definitely these Onyx. I wonder if TSC will have chicks through the summer like this year? Corona chickens, round 2?

Yes! That was the name. I am wondering if the Southern Ramblers people came across were really these Mystic Onyx they are marketing. BTW, I just realized your pretty girl has a perfect pose, displaying her toes so nicely:love

I mean the “Mystic Onyx”. Looks like they are supposed to be a small (or medium?) standard at 5-6 lbs, according to Hoover’s.

https://hoovershatchery.com/mysticonyx.html Hey, I remember reading threads here and there from last year or so about people getting mysterious but cute black-skinned chickens from their feed stores that carry chicks from Hoover’s Hatchery. I can’t remember the breed name they were being...