Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[Kassaundra]

These were taken yesterday
















This NN has tufts!




Had to include pics of Rudy

 

[what did I do]

[/quote] Had to include pics of Rudy [/quote] OK, what is this? I've read about the featherless meat birds they have but that is all. Is this a cross or something else?

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Had to include pics of Rudy

Rudy is a cute curiosity. I wonder if the chick will ever grow feathers.

 

[katzbantams]

Hi! I have this mix, named Pecan! He is a roo, his mom is a Dominique and his dad is a black old English bantam! Loving his colors!

Sorry the pic above is a little funky, he wouldn't stop moving

 

[what did I do]

Rudy is a cute curiosity.  I wonder if the chick will ever grow feathers.  

I doubt he will ever grow feathers but I bet you could sell him for a pretty penny if you found the right person to sell him to.

 

[draye]

Rudy is a cute curiosity. I wonder if the chick will ever grow feathers.

No he'll never grow feathers, he is a scaless, so that means no feathers, it is in his background.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

These were taken yesterday





Had to include pics of Rudy

Okay, I have to admit I am mildly obsessed with Rudy at the moment. I would love to know more about the genetics of this feather and follicle-free fowl. Were his parents typical naked neck chickens (if there is such a thing as a typical naked neck chicken)?

 

[Kassaundra]

Okay, I have to admit I am mildly obsessed with Rudy at the moment. I would love to know more about the genetics of this feather and follicle-free fowl. Were his parents typical naked neck chickens (if there is such a thing as a typical naked neck chicken)?

Rudy is from NN parents, though none of mine are "typical" I like variety. However the Sc gene is completely separate from the Na gene. Any chicken that has ScSc genes will be naked, and was first found in a flock of New Hampshires in CA in the 1950's.

Here is a short article if you google you can find more

http://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=25690

 

[Davey G]

I have never seen a fully naked bird that is quite WOWing.

 

[PrairieChickens]

A batch of 32 mutts just hatched in my incubator. An exasperating number of them were sired by my barred rock roo, but we still managed to get a little variety.

A polish crested mix. I'll probably have a better idea on the father once it starts to feather out.


An Easter Egger/Australorp mix. Her(?) parents are the only two chickens I have ever seen who are in love. Gryffindor is an Easter Egger roo, and the head of the flock, but every night he roosts away from the rest of the chickens with his sweetheart, Mrs. Hughes. Sometimes I catch them in a moment alone--not the typical business of roosters and hens, but cuddling, snuggling, and nuzzling each other in a way I haven't seen any other chickens do before or since.


A bantam cochin/bantam d'uccle mix


A polish crested/barred rock mix. Shelby was the name of the student who selected the egg to put it into the incubator.


Possibly my favorite chick from this hatch. Her(?) genetics mystify me. I was quite sure the egg was from my OEGB, Pipsqueak, but her coloring and feathered legs complicate that belief. There's a very slim chance the father could be another mutt--a bantam cochin/EE mix named Bob--but Pipsqueak doesn't like him at all, and I can't see him "getting lucky" with her. I guess time will tell.


Most of the babies--only a couple were yet in the incubator when I took this shot.


And here's Kismet again, the second chick ever born in our flock. EE/Production Red mix