Hi all! I come with a new update on little Nemo.
Overall it’s doing good! Growing, playing with its siblings, and acting like a mostly normal chick. It’s eye on the bad side is a little goopy sometimes, and it still leans a bit to the right, but overall good enough that I am mostly confident it’ll be a normal chicken one day!
I’m starting to suspect that this little thing might be some sort of chimera, or at least dealing with some weird genetics. One wing is normal smooth feathers, the other smaller wing looks like silkied feathers…
Nemo’s dad Beans was bought as an egg from someone selling fertilized silkied serama eggs. Beans was the only one that hatched, and was a smooth serama. I suspect the eggs he came from weren’t really silkied Seramas (but actually a Silkie/Serama cross breed, based off some of Beans offspring having feathered legs and five toes, which as far as I can tell is NOT a serama thing). Maybe Nemo’s Silkie genes are really strong!
Either way, here’s the little guy (or girl, can’t tell yet). It’s just under a month old, and is very much in an awkward stage!
Here you can really see the feather differences on the two wings:
I am not sure why a white chick is now turning brown, but Serama feather genetics are weird
Also bonus Tater Tot (hatched a day after Nemo - Tater is the one with five toes, and the one I suspect is a cockerel based off it’s comb)
