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Agree with NatJ on all that's been posted so far. I've seen the occasional chick with dark shanks in my Cochin bantams because of ER and eb popping up in my birds, but their skin on other parts of their body definitely wasn't dark as well like it appears to be with that little one... 🤔...

No, ideally you shouldn't. Frizzles have a single copy of the frizzling gene, causing the gentle curve to their feathers. Breeding frizzle to frizzle mean that approximately 1/4 of their offspring inherit two copies of the gene, however, which is where you run into trouble. The double dose of...

Whoops, you're right, I scrolled back too far in my calendar and counted from December instead of January 😅 I thought the chick looked a bit sparsely feathered for 10 weeks! I'd still lean pullet at that age, but maybe a bit more tentatively. Definitely give it a few more weeks to be sure...

What a cutie! :love I do see why you're catching those vibes... But by my count the little one is about 10 weeks old? I would expect a Cochin cockerel to be a lot more developed by this age, so I'd lean toward pullet at the moment... but advise you to give it a bit more time to be sure. 🙂

Agreed with all of this (especially the first line!!). I think we've reached the point where the chick down and early feathering just isn't enough clues and we'll just have to wait to see how they feather in to try and figure out what's going on with them. 🤔

Posts number 43 and 45 OP was asking about breeding these Blue and Splash chicks to the Chocolate chicks they have growing out. 🙂

Starting with a Mauve male crossed to Blue or Splash females would be about the same as starting with a Chocolate male in the same cross. The only difference is that both parents in these crosses carry at least one blue gene, so you get some Splashes / Mauve Splashes and fewer Blacks /...

Yeah, Mauve is the combination of both blue and chocolate genes expressing. Chocolate is sexlinked, so how it's inherited depends on whether the male or the female is the Chocolate individual in the pairing. To make Mauves right away, you want a Chocolate male: Chocolate male x Blue female =...

Coming from what appears to have been a recessive White parent means that they will carry a recessive white gene and pass it on to some of their offspring, so White might pop up in future generations from that pen if you use those birds. But that's the only real side effect from that, and...

Interesting, that does look more like Splash than like recessive white... 🤔 Looking back at the pictures you posted of your rooster's stray colored feathers, they do look bluish to me. My assumption at this point would be that your White flock is hiding Blue or Splash underneath their white...

What a cutie that little frizzle is! I'm so sorry you lost your hen, though. :hugs Pictures would help of the new little one, but best wait until it's fully fluffed for a more accurate assessment. Based on the description, though, it's possible that the little one is recessive white, which can...

Yeah, that poster is not quite correct in a couple areas, but most importantly in that both parents must be hetero dominant white. If both are heterozygous dominant white, I/i+, then yes, about one quarter of their offspring will be non-white. However, if one parent is only heterozygous...

Did you set any from the other hens? Have any of them hatched? If the rooster is heterozygous dominant white, then about half of the offspring from any of those hens (assuming they're all recessive white) should be colored. The exception perhaps being the hen with the gold wing feather, I'm not...

Ah, so then I'd suspect then that your rooster is not recessive white after all! So it's likely that this chick did come from the hen you had thought, but since one parent is recessive white and the other one isn't, the chick is not white. I'm not sure if Splash can have so few marks without...

Oh, yes, I understood that! I was more asking if you're 100% positive the egg came from that particular pen or if it's possible it could have been from another pen? Is an egg mix-up possible, in other words? I've heard different estimations for how long hens can retain sperm, from only 10 days...

Cute baby! :love A few questions just for some clarification on things. You're 100% sure that the egg the chick hatched from definitely came from your pen with your Whites? You said you thought it was from one of your frizzles, but could be wrong about that, so is it possible that it came from...