Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

Wow... my chicks scared everyone away...

 

[minihorse927]

Mystery color chicks update...

white wings?

 

[Ravynscroft]

white wings?

Kinda... from about the middle to the tips they're dusted with a silvery/grayish...

 

[minihorse927]

Kinda... from about the middle to the tips they're dusted with a silvery/grayish...

odd, not what I expected...


I found a cockerel chocolate orp bantam I planned on keeping in the brooder. He's from another breeder. Tiny, looks good type wise. Growing his tail and HE HAS FEATHERS ON HIS LEGS!!!

 

[minihorse927]

Not lots, like 4 stubble from the hock partway down the shank. Then he has fuzz between his toes... not happy as they swore they had no feathering in their birds. I have a $40 junk cockerel from the mostly infertile eggs they sent me.

 

[Ravynscroft]

odd, not what I expected...


I found a cockerel chocolate orp bantam I planned on keeping in the brooder. He's from another breeder. Tiny, looks good type wise. Growing his tail and HE HAS FEATHERS ON HIS LEGS!!!

Not lots, like 4 stubble from the hock partway down the shank. Then he has fuzz between his toes... not happy as they swore they had no feathering in their birds. I have a $40 junk cockerel from the mostly infertile eggs they sent me.

I didn't expect that either... and I think the hen is the white one... maybe recessive white? Wouldn't that hide other colors? Weird though that all 3 look so similar...

Oh, that sucks!! Even between the toes???

 

[minihorse927]

I didn't expect that either... and I think the hen is the white one... maybe recessive white? Wouldn't that hide other colors? Weird though that all 3 look so similar...

Oh, that sucks!! Even between the toes???

yes between his toes! Like toe jam or something! Frigging junk bird. I probably can't give him away I bet!

 

[minihorse927]

Recessive white would hide other colors along with dominant white covers all other colors too.

 

[Ravynscroft]

yes between his toes! Like toe jam or something! Frigging junk bird. I probably can't give him away I bet!

That is so much crap... infertile eggs and then that?? Where in the world would Orps get fuzzies???

Recessive white would hide other colors along with dominant white covers all other colors too.

2 of the hens are white and the only yellow chick that hatched has a faintly colored V on it's head... works for me, I didn't want white anyways, but wasn't expecting these, lol...

 

[minihorse927]

That is so much crap... infertile eggs and then that?? Where in the world would Orps get fuzzies???
2 of the hens are white and the only yellow chick that hatched has a faintly colored V on it's head... works for me, I didn't want white anyways, but wasn't expecting these, lol...

I believe (if I remember correctly) at one point and time they mixed cochin into the English orps to make them fluffier. Hence some lines have feathered less and atubbles. I bred this out of mine so sure as crap am not willing to breed it in!'