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- Dec 8, 2022
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Oh okay. I hope she keeps some patterning. But she's got a great temperament anyway. She darts about like one of my hamburgs, but she's thicker and fatter like a more solid breed. I'll update with photos once she's molted.All those white tips and pencilled feathers will molt out! Mottling (which Speckled Sussex are) also requires two copies so would need two parents exhibiting or carrying it. Hamburgs have rose combs so a first generation cross would likely have a rose comb since they're dominant. The white face is chick down that once shed, will turn dark. I think she may be a second generation mix. I agree that I'm seeing Barnevelder in her but she's mixed with something else that's giving her slate legs. Regardless, those pencilled and mottled feathers you're seeing are baby feathers. They're going to molt out! I've been tricked by them before. I had an extra English Orpington thrown in my order and I saw the pencilled feathers and assumed she was partridge. She grew up, lost all of those feathers and wound up being red
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