SoCal Chicken Mama
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- Jul 3, 2024
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Now I'm really confused/conflicted. I have one Easter Egger, a bright yellow Buff Orpington, a Rhode Island Red, and one more, who is supposed to be a Golden Sex link, but she looks EXACTLY like the RIR, I can hardly tell them apart. The only difference is the "goldie" has a bent over comb from a scuffle (She was dominant when they were babies, but not anymore.) She is also redder than the Rhode Island Red. So do you think they messed up and gave me two RIRs? They are 18 weeks tomorrow. They all have pale pink combs and the EE's is much smaller and flatter. The EE has bright blue legs.
I wanted four birds that looked different and some that gave colored eggs. Ideally, I had in mind a Rhode Island Red, a Blue Orpington (or any breed with black and white speckles), and two Ameraucaunas, but the Ameraucaunas are never in the stores and by mail order they were $17 (3 days old) as opposed to the others, $3-6, depending on whether they were "Pullets" or "Straight run." The ones I got are the ones who were in the stores the day I was ready to buy, and they wer "98% guaranteed" to be female. But from the beginning, people have been saying the EE was a roo, because s/he was so much bigger than the others.
And several weeks ago, s/he started "acting like a boy", favoring Piper (the so-called Golden) and sleeping with her every night since she was injured "caught in the door" and traumatized, and then snubbing her and only sleeping with Rhodie. And then, since the other three are all red(ish), s/he (the EE) got them to all gang up on Buffy because she is the biggest, and she's yellow. My sitter told me they were chasing Buffy and being mean to her in the run when she was playing outside with my daughter. After observing it myself, I thought it might be because she is so big she can't fly up to the roost. I could tell the EE was putting the others up to it. They had all been very sweet and loving to each other since they were babies. So I put the EE "in jail" overnight (a dog crate inside the run), while I gave Buffy treats and the others were very nice to her. At night EE started to cry (because s/he was cold and alone) so I put someone in there to sleep with her, but it wasn't the favorite (Not on purpose, I can't tell them apart, especially when it's almost dark). In the morning I noticed they hadn't slept together, one slept inside the nest box and the other one sat on top. It was Piper. I had a talk with Pascha (the EE) about being nice, and then I let him/her rejoin the others and get treats too. They've all gotten along perfectly ever since. In the meantime (during the jail sentence), I built Buffy her own roost, that is lower to the ground, and I tell her, "That's for you, and you can push them off if you want to, which she sometimes does.
So today, after reading about the pea comb and the blue legs, I think Pascha might well be a roo, with the blue egg gene! So my question is, any chance he could "father" a blue egg with one of my girls? With the breeds they are, any chance they could have a blue egg gene somewhere in their lineage?
I wanted four birds that looked different and some that gave colored eggs. Ideally, I had in mind a Rhode Island Red, a Blue Orpington (or any breed with black and white speckles), and two Ameraucaunas, but the Ameraucaunas are never in the stores and by mail order they were $17 (3 days old) as opposed to the others, $3-6, depending on whether they were "Pullets" or "Straight run." The ones I got are the ones who were in the stores the day I was ready to buy, and they wer "98% guaranteed" to be female. But from the beginning, people have been saying the EE was a roo, because s/he was so much bigger than the others.
And several weeks ago, s/he started "acting like a boy", favoring Piper (the so-called Golden) and sleeping with her every night since she was injured "caught in the door" and traumatized, and then snubbing her and only sleeping with Rhodie. And then, since the other three are all red(ish), s/he (the EE) got them to all gang up on Buffy because she is the biggest, and she's yellow. My sitter told me they were chasing Buffy and being mean to her in the run when she was playing outside with my daughter. After observing it myself, I thought it might be because she is so big she can't fly up to the roost. I could tell the EE was putting the others up to it. They had all been very sweet and loving to each other since they were babies. So I put the EE "in jail" overnight (a dog crate inside the run), while I gave Buffy treats and the others were very nice to her. At night EE started to cry (because s/he was cold and alone) so I put someone in there to sleep with her, but it wasn't the favorite (Not on purpose, I can't tell them apart, especially when it's almost dark). In the morning I noticed they hadn't slept together, one slept inside the nest box and the other one sat on top. It was Piper. I had a talk with Pascha (the EE) about being nice, and then I let him/her rejoin the others and get treats too. They've all gotten along perfectly ever since. In the meantime (during the jail sentence), I built Buffy her own roost, that is lower to the ground, and I tell her, "That's for you, and you can push them off if you want to, which she sometimes does.
So today, after reading about the pea comb and the blue legs, I think Pascha might well be a roo, with the blue egg gene! So my question is, any chance he could "father" a blue egg with one of my girls? With the breeds they are, any chance they could have a blue egg gene somewhere in their lineage?
