Crazy Colored Chicken

[big medicine]

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That's the spirit. If your father in law wants to get in in on the action, let's make it interesting. If it turns out to be a pullet he gets 3 of my extra brahma project young cockerels, If I'm right and it is a cockerel, he has to take 6 cockerels. Keep in mind these are large fowl brahmas, birds of substance, not some skinny silkies. I'm not afraid to up the stakes, if he's game.

 

[speakup4kids]

Oh My Gosh!! I am dying reading this thread!! I have this chickens "body type" twin... I have been going absolutely crazy tring to figure out what it is because I KNOW it is a serama. I know where I got the egg from, am almost positive they don't have mixed flocks and I hatched two other seramas that look true to type. Then somewhere out of the blue, I get this oddball that has the same body structure, comb and waddle as yours. Coloring is different, mine is black and white, but size and stance is the same... HMMMM

 

[WestKnollAmy]

This has been a great thread! I don't usually read them all the way through but this one was so funny and interesting, I had to!

Okay, my 2 cents, for what it is worth.....
when I first saw the photo I said roo, too. But then when I saw it was supposed to be a Serama I looked again and thought yeah, maybe a girl. I know nothing about OEGB so if it is I would be no help.
I have a really bad bred Serama too, from a breeder. Awesome little bird, too big for her breed and lots of other breeding mistakes but she is a pet and is only a foster mom.

Are you sure this one is 5 mths old? Or was the photo not recent? I thought there should be more tail feathers but boys can feather slower.

And coloring? I have had some that are colored like roos that were girls and some that were colored like girls come out to be roos. I wait until one crows or lays an egg just to be sure.
And in one instance I had a white bantam Cochin that in it's entire life never crowed or laid an egg. I never saw a roo try to mount it and it never tried to mount a hen when placed with one for several months. Ernie/Ursula lived for 5 years.

Can't wait until it crows or lays an egg. I would say put it in a pen with hens, too. At 5 months HE should certainly be interested in girls. And should start crowing.

 

[Puresilk]

Im not sure of anything about this bird at this point. I do know I Have 2 young cockerels around 3.5-4 months old, and their combs and wattles are much bigger, and are a lot redder...but we will just have to wait and see what this bird becomes. If it is a rooster not sure what I will do with it. If it is indeed a roo, I might pick up some crossed OEGB, and run this roo with it, see what we get.

 

[big medicine]

When I first started my blue laced red Brahma project I had the prettiest little blr pullet hatch out of the first cross, just gorgeous. One day as the sun was getting low in the sky I caught just a small glint of light reflect off her back, which struck me as odd, and was the first sign something was not as it appeared. As I kept my eye on "her", sure enough it started to grow saddle feathers, and developing into a cockerel. I figured it was getting mixed hormonal signals, as I had no doubt it was a pullet up to this point. Curious as to what would come of this I grew him out, turned into a fine looking late bloomer. I then had my doubts as too his fertility, not an issue, in fact he was the male I used in the next years breeding pen. All I'm saying is sometimes wierd things happen, I would have bet the farm it was female, and likely to stay that way the rest of it's life, but I would have been wrong. So how many cockerels can I put you down for ?

This is how he turned out.

 

[muddyhorse]

Gee Big Medicine if you get any you are not "sure" of you can ship them here

Hubby is giving me that look while I babble about the gorgeous roo pic you just posted.

 

[big medicine]

The key to a successfull project is to hatch way to many, and then select down to just the very best of what you are trying to accomplish. Extra pullets are always easy to move along as backyard layers because, well they are good looking birds. The extra cockerels on the other hand are hard to move, at least untill the are freezer prospects. These guys take long enough to mature that it is a challenge affording the feed to allow my keeper breeding prospects enough time to develop, let alone the guys that are not in contention. Shipping is so high for big birds, I may put some started young birds up for auction.

 

[Vcomb]

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blue partridge, blue wheaton or perhaps a blue red. Male. Pointed hackles and saddles, red shoulders and back, blue breast, gold hackles and saddles, red in flights. The comb and wattles also seem a bit big for a pullet that young if it were a pullet. Older roosters will mount younger roosters as a way of establishing dominance. If this bird is 5 months old then it clearly has not yet got the urge or size yet to challenge the adult rooster for dominance.

 

[speakup4kids]

O.k, well my type twin to this bird is only two months old but I'm still going with serama. Sometimes things just get a little wonky as they grow out. Don't think it's a roo either if it is a serama.... Looks fairly consistent for a 5 month serama pullet.

 

[big medicine]

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Care to make it interesting ?