My question is, how could this have happened?
I sold a friend 4 hens and a month later I sold him 8 fertile eggs for one of the girls that had gone broody. Even though my hens are all purebred, my rooster is not. He a beautiful mix of a Welsummer over a Barred Rock.
(picture of Rusty with his moma, Georgia Girl)
Rusty has produced many beautiful offspring, but they have all been very colorful, lots of red and gold from his Welsummer lineage. But much to my surprise, I was literally shocked to see his offspring that hatched from one of my eggs that I sold. The mother is a White Plymouth Rock. She has hatched out several other birds for me and they have all had a certain orange and white coloration, hence their names of Peaches N Cream and Tater Tot, you get the coloring idea. However this particular one BLEW MY MIND!
Without further ado, here is the beauty!
I know these aren’t the best pictures, but how in the world would this cockerel have turned out 99% white? I think I see tinges of yellowing in his hackles, but is he not gorgeous? I’m still shocked!
I sold a friend 4 hens and a month later I sold him 8 fertile eggs for one of the girls that had gone broody. Even though my hens are all purebred, my rooster is not. He a beautiful mix of a Welsummer over a Barred Rock.
(picture of Rusty with his moma, Georgia Girl)
Rusty has produced many beautiful offspring, but they have all been very colorful, lots of red and gold from his Welsummer lineage. But much to my surprise, I was literally shocked to see his offspring that hatched from one of my eggs that I sold. The mother is a White Plymouth Rock. She has hatched out several other birds for me and they have all had a certain orange and white coloration, hence their names of Peaches N Cream and Tater Tot, you get the coloring idea. However this particular one BLEW MY MIND!
Without further ado, here is the beauty!
I know these aren’t the best pictures, but how in the world would this cockerel have turned out 99% white? I think I see tinges of yellowing in his hackles, but is he not gorgeous? I’m still shocked!