Sablehaven
Songster
- May 22, 2020
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For my little breeding project, I got buff orpington hens and a buff brahma rooster. The results are six beautiful, large and well laying hens with lightly feathered feet, deep gold coloring and thin columbian markings:
And then there was Freya:
Freya is about a pound lighter than her siblings, and as you can see, she has some very unusual and very pretty coloring.
She is also the last to hatch, out of three eggs I had to finish incubating in an improvised brooder made of a heating pad, a damp rag and a thermometer that woke me up four times a night to adjust the heat, for the three days it took for them to all hatch. Their momma stopped brooding after the first chicks hatched, so I checked them and finished the three living ones for her.
All of them were yellow chicks except Freya, who had brown markings, and I wish I'd taken pictures.
So, can anyone tell me why this happened? And most curiously, what would her babies look like? Will they be the same as her sister's?
And then there was Freya:
Freya is about a pound lighter than her siblings, and as you can see, she has some very unusual and very pretty coloring.
She is also the last to hatch, out of three eggs I had to finish incubating in an improvised brooder made of a heating pad, a damp rag and a thermometer that woke me up four times a night to adjust the heat, for the three days it took for them to all hatch. Their momma stopped brooding after the first chicks hatched, so I checked them and finished the three living ones for her.
All of them were yellow chicks except Freya, who had brown markings, and I wish I'd taken pictures.
So, can anyone tell me why this happened? And most curiously, what would her babies look like? Will they be the same as her sister's?