Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[aussieposse]

. The dark chick is an EExWyandotte or Barred rock, not sure that time will tell! Buff chick is EExBuff Orpington I think. Broody mama settled herself on quite a mix of eggs!

 

[babyfoot]

. The dark chick is an EExWyandotte or Barred rock, not sure that time will tell! Buff chick is EExBuff Orpington I think. Broody mama settled herself on quite a mix of eggs!

were they sparring? My three week old chicks are playing at fighting and will fly at each other and do the stare down thing already

 

[aussieposse]

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were they sparring?  My three week old chicks are playing at fighting and will fly at each other and do the stare down thing already

they were! Such a hoot to watch them acting big

 

[Wishapup]

Might be able to post more pictures later, but here is the strange comb I got from my Silkie-mostly-bantam mix roo. He's seven months old:





Here's his dad, who is half Silkie, half unidentified non-Silkie bantam hen:

 

[babyfoot]

Might be able to post more pictures later, but here is the strange comb I got from my Silkie-mostly-bantam mix roo. He's seven months old:





Here's his dad, who is half Silkie, half unidentified non-Silkie bantam hen:

weird indeed

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh boy, that takes me back to my school days doing biology and the genetic dominance of blue green and brown eyes
My white hen has had eggs of hers hatch before and the chicks both male and female have never been white, yet I have one chick now that is white, the two roosters are ginger and dark brown respectively. Which would be the male donor in this chick do you think?

My biology genetics was the yellow wrinkled pea and the green smooth pea, w/ Mr. Eaton one of the smartest teachers I ever met. He looked just like Bob Newhart, even had some of his mannerisms.

 

[Kassaundra]

see, Hahhaah, no breed talk here, just colours, I am the same with cars "what make of car was it" says Hubby. "Blue" says I

Same here, for the life of me I can't see the diff in suv and van either, well except for the panel type van.

 

[Kassaundra]

A few pics of my mutt flock

 

[ChickNmamma]

Might be able to post more pictures later, but here is the strange comb I got from my Silkie-mostly-bantam mix roo. He's seven months old:





Here's his dad, who is half Silkie, half unidentified non-Silkie bantam hen:

I looks to me like this would be what happens when you loose the rose comb gene and keep the pea comb gene in a Silkie. The comb on Silkies needs two comb genes - Pea and Rose - to get the correct comb. Your boy looks similar to the Pea combs when they are combined with a gene that gives horns on the back of the comb. You can see the start of the horns on the older boy's comb (the three bumps), but the Rose comb gene mashed everything down flat.

 

[ChickNmamma]

A few pics of my mutt flock

I am glad to see you have a few NNs left too - interesting looking birds.

I just found out what this color pattern is called - Silver Quail. It is very striking! If the genetics hold true the first picture is of a girl, the second one is a boy.