Chimera???

[nzpouter]

looks more like a mosaic than a chimera...

like this guy I found in youtube...

 

[Redcatcher]

Wow, that roo is wild looking. There was a discussion here not that long ago if a chicken could have more than one father the answer was yes. I think that is the case with mosaics. Sexual chimeras can be half and half too . The chicken will look like a cock on one side and a hen on the other. I am not sure how to tell one from the other without genetic testing except to wait and see.

 

[kurka]

father was a common quail? How do they grow, like a quail or like a chicken?

they look nice

 

[Hennypen]

If you don't mind spending money, you may want to contact UC Davis about genetic testing. When I realized my mare was brindle I sent a tube of blood in and tail hairs. Cost $100. I wonder if you could pluck feathers from both sides and see if they came back with different dna.

 

[Redcatcher]

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Hennypen, I would really like to see a photo of your mare. They are so rare that I have already seen every photo that is online of a brindle horse. I will find out in a few weeks whether this bird is chimera or mosaic. On a chimera, one side will start developing like a rooster and the other like a hen. Way too soon for that although one side already appears to have the coloring of a cockerel and the other side of a pullet. I think it takes a few weeks to get the results back from genetic testing, anyway, so I will wait and see. I think even mosaics are pretty rare, especially ones like this one that are called "double siders".

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Honestly the more I look at this chicken it looks just like a chicken. I see no quail attributes to it at all. Are you sure the hen wasn't around any other male poultry/fowl for the 3 weeks BEFORE she laid this egg? a hen can lay eggs still fertile for 2-3 weeks after being seperated from a roo so are you absoposilutely sure that the hen was fertilized by a quail? Cause I just don't see it. The chicky in question looks like a partridgey colored feather leg bantam.

 

[kurka]

mosaic or chimeras are fertile?

 

[crazy_egg]

don't worry I'm a believer, I once posted up my Chinese pheaseant x naked neck cross & lots of people on here were saying it was some other type of breed. But how would they know if I bred them myself.

 

[Redcatcher]

I am not too worried. It has been indeed been verified by biologists at a major university. While I have learned more about chickens on this forum in the past few years than I have learned in a lifetime, it is not always the final authority.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

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You wouldn't happen to live near Rachel, NV, would you?