Allie & Bino, the albino orpington chicks

[OneMountainAcres]

Subscribing. I want to follow along with these two also. So intriguing!

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Bino^

Allie
3 weeks old on Thursday and Friday!! They're getting sooo big!

Subscribing too! This is so cool! I'm glad I was made privy to it. I thought it was a goof because you and CC hadn't posted much more about it.

 

[chippysmom327]

Thanks everyone! When the first one hatched I was shocked, but when the SECOND one hatched, I almost keeled over!

I feel so lucky and blessed.

 

[Kev]

Yeah you are very lucky.

Thanks for posting the pics btw.

 

[chiques chicks]

The roosters and a couple of the hens throwing the albino. The one rooster was given to me as a partridge a member had as an extra.

The original generation of the previous pen.
Rooster:

Three of the original hens, there are two black and three blue, not lavender. There are some other birds in this pen as well, EE and a couple Orpington offspring I kept as layers, not part of my project.

Most of the birds come out blue and yellow. I don't keep them. They get sold as backyard chickens, or eaten.

 

[barbiegirl]

How interesting. Love their names. How are Allie and Bino doing?

 

[chippysmom327]

How interesting. Love their names. How are Allie and Bino doing?

Great! Allie's little umbilical thing finally fell off today... It was completely closed underneath, which is awesome.

 

[SilkieSensation]

If USPS ever stops playing ping pong with my box, I'll be setting some of these eggs soon. I'll be watching for albinos!

 

[chippysmom327]

If USPS ever stops playing ping pong with my box, I'll be setting some of these eggs soon. I'll be watching for albinos!

Nice!

 

[chiques chicks]

Here is the third one:

I'll try to get pics with the other three that hatched for comparison. Two are dark, one is yellow.

This is all a fluke. I'm just a small guy not really trying to breed anything special other than hardy birds for personal use. My original birds, from which these are third generation, were from two sources on eBay. I raise my birds for eggs and meat. No artificial light, no special diet, no heat in winter. My flocks are not particularly friendly. I don't baby them, the strong survive. My runs are open, I have predators. I want them to be wary. I sell maybe a dozen or two birds a year for backyard flocks to get rid of my excess. I've sold a few dozen eggs locally for hatching over a couple years.
The eggs chippysmom327 got were a combination of her needing eggs for the easter hatch and me wanting to try to ship for the first time.
I really have no idea how to handle this situation other than to enjoy watching her raise them. The other eggs mentioned actually shipped before this took off, a deal between friends with some random mixed eggs.