Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[Kassaundra]

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.

Well sort of, the first is a girl, and the last WAS a boy, he is now a capon. (neutered boy) He has a twin looking brother they are both going to a pet home, she wanted them as Oreo's last offspring after the massacre, he has quite a fan base on the Okie thread.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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I am sorry, I was hoping you didn't loose Oreo. He really was a good cookie, wasn't he?

 

[Kassaundra]

I am sorry, I was hoping you didn't loose Oreo. He really was a good cookie, wasn't he?

Yes, I always found it impressive that he knew and would come to his name. I haven't had chickens long just over 3 years, but have never had any other chicken including Yeta the wonder chicken that could/would do that.

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

Okay guys, you ready?

I hatched Teddy last summer, but I got the eggs from a neighbor. Teddy came from a light brown egg, and I saved her life. When she hatched she wasn't under the hen. I told myself that I should leave the hens alone for a little while, but I couldn't help myself. I found teddy lifeless, wet, and cold. I held her limp body in my hand for awhile and I called my dad, and he said that we would burry her etc... But I didn't want to give up. I set her under the hen and came back a couple of hours later, and she was breathing. She started out slower than the other chicks, but she is perfectly fine now.
Teddy is a Silkie/Easter Egger/ Turken

 

[Kassaundra]

Okay guys, you ready?

I hatched Teddy last summer, but I got the eggs from a neighbor. Teddy came from a light brown egg, and I saved her life. When she hatched she wasn't under the hen. I told myself that I should leave the hens alone for a little while, but I couldn't help myself. I found teddy lifeless, wet, and cold. I held her limp body in my hand for awhile and I called my dad, and he said that we would burry her etc... But I didn't want to give up. I set her under the hen and came back a couple of hours later, and she was breathing. She started out slower than the other chicks, but she is perfectly fine now.
Teddy is a Silkie/Easter Egger/ Turken

 

[Wishapup]

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.

Interesting!

 

[babyfoot]

Okay guys, you ready?

I hatched Teddy last summer, but I got the eggs from a neighbor. Teddy came from a light brown egg, and I saved her life. When she hatched she wasn't under the hen. I told myself that I should leave the hens alone for a little while, but I couldn't help myself. I found teddy lifeless, wet, and cold. I held her limp body in my hand for awhile and I called my dad, and he said that we would burry her etc... But I didn't want to give up. I set her under the hen and came back a couple of hours later, and she was breathing. She started out slower than the other chicks, but she is perfectly fine now.
Teddy is a Silkie/Easter Egger/ Turken

Divine, looks like maybe an emu or ostrich got a bit part too hahahaha. One of a kind and gorgeous.

Last year I too saved a chick, cold and lifeless and I thought it was dead. Mum had taken her two day old chicks outside and abandoned it in a cold nest, it had started pipping hours and hours before but was too weak to finish the job, especially with no heat from mum.

I helped it out of its shell, wrapped it up in paper towel and held it next to my chest for a few hours and it began to cheep, put it under mum again and a few hours later all was well. Today she is one of the cuddliest hens we have, always comes straight up to us to be picked up, stands at our feet and waddles her backside looking up at us, pleading, pick me up pick me up.

 

[PrairieChickens]

I had a little bantam chick escape the brooder once and nearly chill to death. When I found him, he was motionless and cold--we thought he was dead. When I picked him up, he stretched his wings and opened his beak, so I held him close to me for over an hour, warming him up until he was alert and strong enough to go back in the brooder. A few days later, he developed paralysis from his incident, so I had to take him home to my house and baby him for a couple of weeks until he got his strength back. The poor guy is at the bottom of the rooster pecking order now, but things are getting better for him. He's figuring out how to navigate the flock so that he avoids the meaner chickens, and knows what parts of the yard are safe to hang out in because the other chickens don't go there. He's even managed to woo a few of the hens that are high up on the pecking order, which I find quite impressive considering his handicaps. He's really maturing into a neat little roo.

 

[insanity]

Here is one of my mutts. Blondie


Every one thinks she is a buff orphington but she has a rose comb and is built a bit thin for that. She came to me as a 3-4 yr old rescue without much history.

 

[froggiesheins]

Here is one of my mutts. Blondie Every one thinks she is a buff orphington but she has a rose comb and is built a bit thin for that. She came to me as a 3-4 yr old rescue without much history.

AWW shes a cute mutt.....