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Yay!! How wonderful.
Yay!! How wonderful.
Congrats!
Does anyone have photo's of what a red chick looks like in the first feathering? I have one feathering out with vibrant red feathers. There's a bit of blue on part of the wing feathers. There is a lot of feathering left to come in but I'm amazed. These 5 chicks were all chipmunk striped and hardly 2 alike now.
Does anyone have photo's of what a red chick looks like in the first feathering? I have one feathering out with vibrant red feathers. There's a bit of blue on part of the wing feathers. There is a lot of feathering left to come in but I'm amazed. These 5 chicks were all chipmunk striped and hardly 2 alike now.
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Red colored chickens are an orangey yellow color to start, then feather in with a slight partridge look, then finish off with red plumage.
What you're getting is what I got from my "Marango" - He produced a beautiful red columbian/quail for me. Chipmunk striped at first, then feathered out vibrant red with bits of blue, and is now a brilliant, deep blood red with blue hackles, saddle, and just like his dad - Blue spangling on the chest and blue lacing on the back.
Red colored chickens are an orangey yellow color to start, then feather in with a slight partridge look, then finish off with red plumage.
What you're getting is what I got from my "Marango" - He produced a beautiful red columbian/quail for me. Chipmunk striped at first, then feathered out vibrant red with bits of blue, and is now a brilliant, deep blood red with blue hackles, saddle, and just like his dad - Blue spangling on the chest and blue lacing on the back.
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Red colored chickens are an orangey yellow color to start, then feather in with a slight partridge look, then finish off with red plumage.
What you're getting is what I got from my "Marango" - He produced a beautiful red columbian/quail for me. Chipmunk striped at first, then feathered out vibrant red with bits of blue, and is now a brilliant, deep blood red with blue hackles, saddle, and just like his dad - Blue spangling on the chest and blue lacing on the back.
Sounds like a variety worth stabilizing to me!
Sib
Red colored chickens are an orangey yellow color to start, then feather in with a slight partridge look, then finish off with red plumage.
What you're getting is what I got from my "Marango" - He produced a beautiful red columbian/quail for me. Chipmunk striped at first, then feathered out vibrant red with bits of blue, and is now a brilliant, deep blood red with blue hackles, saddle, and just like his dad - Blue spangling on the chest and blue lacing on the back.
Sounds like a variety worth stabilizing to me!
Sib
If anyone knows the answer to this question you all do. I have an EE although I know she's a mutt she has one thing in common. She is rumpless. I have a poopy bottom problem. It collects in the fuzz under her vent and I keep having to give her a butt bath. Has anyone else had this problem.
Yes, it can be common on the rumpless, especially the shorter backed ones. In the winter time my super fluffy butt girls will get poop and mud caught in their fur if I don't trim them. Usually it happens in newly hatched chicks and most will out grow it. I have had a couple that it lasts for a month or two, then only once in a while when the ground where they like to dig around is muddy.
Lanae
Lanae
Illia,
Thanks, I love that red. The chick was a paler gold color with less chipmunk striping than the others, none on the head and only a snip behind the eye and none on the neck. There was another chick that was much more golden that I would have thought would be red and isn't. It looks to be feathering out similar to the darker red/brown hen I got recently. One of the chicks is feathering out columbian like the other 2 Slinky chicks were (I lost them both,
) and it's huge. I'm thinking pullet. There is a lot of rounded rump feathering that is hen like with a bit of a cushion, not like a cochin cushion but it makes me think pullet rather than cockerel. There is a second columbian colored chick that is very similar that I'm thinking cockerel and I think there are some tiny tufts on that one.
There is one chick, hatched at the same time, that is half the size of the others and hardly more than some wing feathers. It's really odd, not the chick, but the fact it's not feathering out like the others are. It's robust and active but just looks so much younger because of the down. It's the one that had the really pretty blue down with extremely black chipmunk striping. I don't know what to think about that one.
Thanks, I love that red. The chick was a paler gold color with less chipmunk striping than the others, none on the head and only a snip behind the eye and none on the neck. There was another chick that was much more golden that I would have thought would be red and isn't. It looks to be feathering out similar to the darker red/brown hen I got recently. One of the chicks is feathering out columbian like the other 2 Slinky chicks were (I lost them both,
There is one chick, hatched at the same time, that is half the size of the others and hardly more than some wing feathers. It's really odd, not the chick, but the fact it's not feathering out like the others are. It's robust and active but just looks so much younger because of the down. It's the one that had the really pretty blue down with extremely black chipmunk striping. I don't know what to think about that one.
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