Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[katzbantams]

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

They are all so cute!! I love the polish! I also think the cochin/d'uccle mix is so cute!

 

[SeanaL]

Rudy is awesome!!!! He is adorable!

 

[scratch'n'peck]

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

Thanks for the info. I have subscribed to the thread to stay posted on Rudy and your whole flock along with everyone's cool chicken mutts. BTW, I enjoy your photography, including your Okie Ice
Series.

 

[katzbantams]

Here are one of my mutts

This one of my babies, she? He? Is part Cochin an I believe part btw Japanese (dad)
What do you guys think?

Sorry the pics are blurry

 

[Loghousemom]

Kassaundra, I love all the pictures of the naked necks! Rudy is pretty cool too. I showed my girls and they are already asking to get one, even though I think he is a little too naked for me. It gets way too cold here, I don't expect we would be able to keep any like him alive.


It has been a long while since I have posted here, but I had some time today since it is raining and I am swimming in lots of new little mutts. Here are a few of the ones we hatched in March. This flock has some EE, White Cochin, Welsummer, Buckeye, White leghorn/crested cream legbar hens with a NN frizzle rooster and a Cochin/buckeye rooster. I have another hatch we did at a local preschool from this same flock so I am excited to see what we get out of it as they grow out.


This one has no name. Pretty certain he is a boy, and we wont keep him

This is Fru-Fru


This is the only fully feathered one we hatched. I am hoping she is a girl to breed with a grey cochin we hatched last year.

This one was born rumpless! I was certain he wasn't going to make it as a chick because he had constant pastey butt no matter what I did. He is happy and healthy now!

More of the flock

I think he is awesome! I love his slightly barred frizzle feathers!

This is Tiny. She was always half the size of the others, but is catching up. I think the brown leakage in her head and the tuft on her neck are so pretty.

 

[Rhandi74]

Anyone know what kind of mix this is. I think it was a mix up at hatchery because I bought it in with the barred rock pullets at TSC but it is definitely not just a barred rock. As a chick it looked just like the other one but as the feathers grew out they were quite different from one another.

 

[Bethel3330]

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

wow, he is quite stunning!

 

[katzbantams]

wow, he is quite stunning!

Thank you!! He has some feathers in his tail that are green! It's so pretty! He's mostly checkered then, there are just random green and brown feathers

 

[draye]

Anyone know what kind of mix this is. I think it was a mix up at hatchery because I bought it in with the barred rock pullets at TSC but it is definitely not just a barred rock. As a chick it looked just like the other one but as the feathers grew out they were quite different from one another.

Sex Link rooster.

 

[Rhandi74]

Sex Link rooster.

Thank you
I will actually be very happy if she is a he because I do not have a rooster.