Cerise1924
Crowing
Hi, friends!
I had hatching eggs shipped from a Olandsk Dwarf roo over Cream Legbar hen pairing. Only one hatched. Here's the chick at two weeks. It should have been sexable at birth by a cream spot on the head, I believe, but the chick hatched with all cream down, so that didn't work.
Now, the chick is all cream with the palest wheat barring on the wings. The breeder says that none of the chicks she has hatched from the roo and hen cross have looked anything like this. The chick is also fairly big. I would not have guessed it was half Olandsk. It's huge compared to my Sebrights of the same age, and as big as the biggest Svart Hona.
I don't breed chickens myself, so I don't know... is it possible for a hen to lay a clutch of eggs and have one that was fertilized by a different roo than the rest? If you have raised Legbars or Olandsk Dwarves, do you see that breed in this chick? Is it normal to have one chick that looks nothing like dozens of others from the same cross?
Thanks for any input.
I had hatching eggs shipped from a Olandsk Dwarf roo over Cream Legbar hen pairing. Only one hatched. Here's the chick at two weeks. It should have been sexable at birth by a cream spot on the head, I believe, but the chick hatched with all cream down, so that didn't work.
Now, the chick is all cream with the palest wheat barring on the wings. The breeder says that none of the chicks she has hatched from the roo and hen cross have looked anything like this. The chick is also fairly big. I would not have guessed it was half Olandsk. It's huge compared to my Sebrights of the same age, and as big as the biggest Svart Hona.
I don't breed chickens myself, so I don't know... is it possible for a hen to lay a clutch of eggs and have one that was fertilized by a different roo than the rest? If you have raised Legbars or Olandsk Dwarves, do you see that breed in this chick? Is it normal to have one chick that looks nothing like dozens of others from the same cross?
Thanks for any input.
