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- Jan 26, 2023
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Just Kidding!
This ~5 week old Cockerel (I assume) is looking more like a Cockatiel daily. As a chick he had muffs, which may grow back ae he finishes molting his down and gets his face and neck feathers.
He was bought at 2-3 days of age with 9 other chicks as an "Easter Egger", private breeder, not hatchery. She gave me a list of the possible roosters and the possible hens. There were clean and feathered legged chicks, I chose only clean legged). I bought 5 "light" (mostly yellow) colors and 5 "dark" (mostly blue/black) colors.
Roosters: Splash Silverudd Blue and Cochin
Hens: Frost White Legbar, Black Americauna (breeder, not hatchery), Olive Eggers (look like cream legbars), Brahma, Cochin, White Leghorn, Black Copper Maran(feathered legged).
So my best guess is this guy is the Silverudd over either the Frost White Legbar or possibly an Olive Egger? He has a few small smudges of light blue, but is basically white.
Any other guesses?
I would also like to know if the crest in Legbars is the same gene as other crested chickens (Polish. Houdan etc), because it looks so different (smaller). And what is the genetics of the crest in Legbars/Aurucauna/Ameicauna?
This ~5 week old Cockerel (I assume) is looking more like a Cockatiel daily. As a chick he had muffs, which may grow back ae he finishes molting his down and gets his face and neck feathers.
He was bought at 2-3 days of age with 9 other chicks as an "Easter Egger", private breeder, not hatchery. She gave me a list of the possible roosters and the possible hens. There were clean and feathered legged chicks, I chose only clean legged). I bought 5 "light" (mostly yellow) colors and 5 "dark" (mostly blue/black) colors.
Roosters: Splash Silverudd Blue and Cochin
Hens: Frost White Legbar, Black Americauna (breeder, not hatchery), Olive Eggers (look like cream legbars), Brahma, Cochin, White Leghorn, Black Copper Maran(feathered legged).
So my best guess is this guy is the Silverudd over either the Frost White Legbar or possibly an Olive Egger? He has a few small smudges of light blue, but is basically white.
Any other guesses?
I would also like to know if the crest in Legbars is the same gene as other crested chickens (Polish. Houdan etc), because it looks so different (smaller). And what is the genetics of the crest in Legbars/Aurucauna/Ameicauna?