BLRW/BBS Ameraucana Chick... It's a GIRL for Sure (Newer pics post 45)

[Goose and Fig]

Some of the pics looks like she has a single comb. Are you sure that's the right chick?

If you plug those colors into the kipp calculator you end up with BBS chicks- no matter who is the roo or the hen.

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, she does have a single comb and came out of a blue egg. I got an explanation from a genetics person here, something like if the parent had one copy of a recessive comb gene and the other did, too (like the BLRW sire had single comb in his background), then you get a small number of single combs. I'd have to look up the explanation. Yep, a surprise to me, too! I was expecting a walnut comb from a rose x pea.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Try the calculator though- there's no result in red. That's crazy!

 

[speckledhen]

I know! It makes no sense, the color thing. I swear, I saw this one hatch from a pretty blue egg and commented immediately that it had reddish fuzz! So weird. And I knew that the BLR Wyandotte rooster had gotten in with the BBS Ameraucana hens, so she told me if one came out weird, that was why. But, this one beats all. Genes are making monkeys out of us, aren't they?

I sent an email to Tim to see if he is as perplexed as we all are, LOL.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Tim says that it should have white skin and white legs if it is a female, white skin and blue legs if a male. Well, as you can see, she has yellow legs, but then, so does my BR/blue Ameraucana cross, Riley. Seems some have white and some have yellow. He also said I should eventually see more black in the plumage and that by the time she's two years old, she should look different than she does now, after the molt.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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I was playing around with the calculator again- it looks if you had BLR over white you could get black patterned incomplete laced red. Could the mom have been white?

 

[speckledhen]

Hmm, now that's interesting. I know the flock is BBS, maybe one of them is carrying recessive white or something? Hmm, let me ask Sam if she has any white Ameraucanas in there somewhere; I don't think she does, but would be worth asking anyway.

 

[speckledhen]

Tim said that the Ameraucana mom of that chick was carrying recessive gene for yellow legs or the legs couldn't have been yellow. So, guess we just wait and watch Miss Rita develop and see if she begins to look more like one of her parents than like she was given up for adoption by a pair of RIR parents, LOL.

Should be interesting.

 

[Namble]

I see a pretty pullet!

 

[speckledhen]

I think by now, since she is a full six weeks old, I'd see signs of a cockerel if there were going to be any, so I'm happy she can stay so we can watch her develop. I'll post pics of her in a couple of weeks and we can see if there are visible changes in her color (or anything else).