Creating Crele Colored Chickens

[MysteryChicken]

It's a BABY BALD EAGLE!

He kind of looks like it, doesn't he?
What do you think of my early update?

 

[MysteryChicken]

If anybody has questions, or ideas, feel free to ask, or share?

 

[Kiki]

 

[MysteryChicken]

Hello

 

[Kiki]

Hello

I like how you are posting weekly pictures.
Is it time for another one yet?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I will be posting another Thursday. It's nice you like my weekly pictures.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I will be incubating 55 eggs, have 6 more coming in.

 

[MROO]

My chick is a pullet, I'll post an early update tomorrow. She is going to be very pretty.

All in fun, now ... Are you being sneaky and posting older pictures of a now-grown chick? That would actually be pretty funny IMO!

 

[nicalandia]

He's actually a silver duckwing phoenix bantam crossed with a Mille Fleur D'Uccle.

I was very close on the Genotype if you think about it, only missing the eb part, he was e+/eb(I called e+/eWh, and while not right, the chick down is clearly of a e+ heterozygote), the he was also S/s+(yep I called that one right), Co/co+(right again, excep the Co is coming from the Millies not buffs), I did miss the recessive mottling(Mo/mo+) but can you really blame me for that?

If you look closely, you'll see black spots on him.

That is due to Heterozygous Columbian Co/co+ not completely restricting the feather melanin to the tail like Homozygous would Co/Co.

Thanks for posting pics of your eggs. Are you able to sex eggs by egg shape? I´ve heard people can do it, they say the pointer eggs are males and the rounder eggs are females, any input on that?

 

[MROO]

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That's TOO cool! And way too organized for my house/coop. I wish I could keep track of things that well. Maybe next year? ... Who am I kidding? ... Nah!