That makes sense, I didn't think of it that way. :) I wonder what he is mixed with..Hm well I guess I will just have to wait and see how that chick looks feathered out :D
Yes this is dad. He is a bit darker colored. I got him from a farm the next town over. They got 6 hatching eggs for their kids for a school project and ended to getting all roosters. They had 4 left when I saw him and 2 I could tell were Easter egger crosses, they had muffs, a beard and a pea...
He's been gone going on five weeks now :p that's my major point of confusion. This chick is very pretty colore though, it would be nice to get one more chick out of him.
So my last hatch, I hatched 3 of my EE eggs. I had two roosters with the flock at the time. A barred rock and another EE. I was expecting all EEs the first hatch because the BR rooster was so subordinate and the EE hens clearly belonged to the EE. Well I guess he was just a little sneaky because...