Chick Pics for New 2 and Our Chart

[DylansMom]

I have questions about this chick.








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I have not seen a chick with black or gray feathers before. I think @AugeredIn and @Q8 thought it was a Silver Pied in the first photos, it may still be, but what about the black/gray feathers?

Sure looks like a silver Pied, what pen it came from could give a clue as to color. Also, is there BS in that pen?

 

[KsKingBee]

Sure looks like a silver Pied, what pen it came from could give a clue as to color. Also, is there BS in that pen?

Hatched from Rockies pen on 6-17-15, IBBSWE (split SP maybe), over IBWE hens, post #29

I sure hope it quits coloring in, I don't want it to go from Silver Pied to Loud Pied. Still, the only chicks I have seen with black feathers have been mixed with other colors, browns, and tans, not yellow, white, and black.

 

[DylansMom]

Hatched from Rockies pen on 6-17-15, IBBSWE (split SP maybe), over IBWE hens, post #29

I sure hope it quits coloring in, I don't want it to go from Silver Pied to Loud Pied. Still, the only chicks I have seen with black feathers have been mixed with other colors, browns, and tans, not yellow, white, and black.

I would be trying to find pics of BS SP chicks around the same age. The way those wings keep getting more color makes me think BS just not sure what the color would be, also double WE might be in play as well.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Hatched from Rockies pen on 6-17-15, IBBSWE (split SP maybe), over IBWE hens, post #29

I sure hope it quits coloring in, I don't want it to go from Silver Pied to Loud Pied. Still, the only chicks I have seen with black feathers have been mixed with other colors, browns, and tans, not yellow, white, and black.

I don't know much about bs sp chicks, but i will tell you how my only bs silver pied chicks i hatched last year were looking as they were growing up, they were opal bs sp, when they hatched they looked completely white, after two weeks i started to notice few colors on their wings just like your old images of your chicks, when they were 2 months old they were almost grey color with only few white feathers on their body, and as more as they grow up they were getting more white on their bodies, last month they were 40% white, now almost 60% of their body is white, they are both males so i think when they become a year old there will be at least 70-80% white on their bodies.

I wished i took images of them when they were young, now i have three chicks just hatched, they could be india blue black shoulder sliver pied, i will see how they will grow up.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

As for the color i have no idea which color its

 

[KsKingBee]

Rocky and his hens obviously carry way more genetic diversity than you think. There has to be pied and white in there and I would suggest one copy of silver pied. I don't think that the two chicks are silver pied. I would bet they are really loud pied. I would also bet that the black shoulder chick might be loud pied as well. I could be wrong and they could be silver pied. They are going to have a lot of white but I would bet a small amount that they are really loud pied.

I wish my multi button worked, never has...

I think Phil was referring to this chick and another from post #29 in his statement in post #33

It sure is fun watching the chicks go through the changes even if they don't turn out the way I had hoped. At first I thought the chick in question would be White, then Silver Pied, then Loud Pied, and now I am afraid it will turn out BS. Then again as Othman explained how his turned dark then lighter the following year I can still hold out hope for a SP.

 

[casportpony]

I dunno but I want it.

X2, fancy!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

EDITED-

I am starting this thread because I have a lot of pics for New 2 and I am having a time keeping them all straight. If you have differing opinions on the colors of the chicks, Please comment! I know the parents of all chicks but a few of them are showing some different genetics that I didn't know were there.

First batch are two day old hatchlings from my IB Pied WE cock over IBSP, IB Pied, Cameo SP, or Cameo WE hens.
Both of the Silver Pied hens are also low percentage Spaulding, as you can see we are getting IB, White,

EDITED - Loud Pied and Black Shoulder. I have NO idea where the BS is coming from!

The Pied chick was splayed in the hatcher and is rubber banded and fitted with shoes.









Here are the one week old chicks from the same pen; one White on the left and the other two are Black Shoulder.





Loud Pieds from the same clutch.








That's all for now, computer is acting up and I have work to attend to, so I will post more later today. I have four more pens...

Lovely!

-kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

I have questions about this chick.








And today;






I have not seen a chick with black or gray feathers before. I think @AugeredIn and @Q8 thought it was a Silver Pied in the first photos, it may still be, but what about the black/gray feathers?

Ok, four-week pics of my mystery chick update. I think I will send these pics to Brad, maybe he will know what to call it.

 

[DylansMom]

Ok, four-week pics of my mystery chick update. I think I will send these pics to Brad, maybe he will know what to call it.

Could it be a BS SP?