16 eggs, 3 species, 1 homemade incubator: Will it be done?

[Cyprus]

What's everyone else doing? I hope your days are all going well!

 

[Cyprus]

 

[Redhead Rae]

That looks like it could be a single comb. The Brahma might not have been the daddy.

 

[itspebbl]

Aw! She's drying off! (She doesn't have feathered legs either, I would think that they would be at least partially feathered, although the gene might be recessive, and so she just didn't inherit them)
I am enjoying a pretty relaxed afternoon. I would like to go out an work in my garden, but it's raining off and on, so I guess that isn't happening

 

[2 many chickens]

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OMG that Lil baby
She's like 'let me type something'

 

[Cyprus]

She has a single comb

 

[itspebbl]

Oh I see the feathers now. Maybe the rooster was carrying the single comb gene?

 

[Cyprus]

Oh I see the feathers now. Maybe the rooster was carrying the single comb gene?

Possibly since it takes only one copy of the pea comb gene to make a pea comb. If I remember correctly, he got the brahma from a breeder who was selling out at a swap. So it's possible the brahma wasn't 100% purebred.

 

[itspebbl]

Oh well. Genetics are funny, fascinating things

 

[Cyprus]

For anyone who would like to know, Egg Man sent me a list of all of the possible mothers of the chicks. Breeds are as follows:

• Light Brahma bantam
• Black Wyandotte bantam
• Brown Leghorn bantam
• Black Fizzled Cochin bantam (never lays)
• Rhode Island Red
• Rhode Island Red x Brown Leghorn

More words to add to the Egg Man dictionary

1. Wiendot [Wyandotte]
2. Frzled [Frizzled]
3. Chochen [Cochin]
4. Dosent [Doesn't]
5. Wight [White]
6. Wightish [Whiteish]
7. Rubby [Ruby]
8. Rubey [Ruby]