The Rinaest Rina
Chirping
- Mar 23, 2025
- 42
- 83
- 79
I have these white chicks with black splotches, and I don't know what breed they are. Some are half cochin bantam, resulting in feathery feet, but I'm hoping their coloring can give clues as to their other parent. However, this is unreliable because siblings of theirs who took after the cochin's coloring are solid black, I guess, though chicks from separate kinds of mothers have the same funny coloring. For example I have a good guess that one of these white and black chicks is half barred rock, because it came from the same kind of egg as two other chicks, one of whom is obviously the son of the only barred rock in the flock, a hen. (See the picture with the three chicks. The white and black ones have the feathered feet, and the gray one is the barred rock. The latter must have been sired by a full sized roo, because he is much bigger and has clean feet.) but the white kid looks the same as the chicks who do not have his barred rock mother. As another twist, their black sister is fibro melanistic?! Where did that come from?