d'Uccle color genetics

[Doug the Chicken Man]

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It does look a little bit lemon like.............

 

[lilcrow]

You can see it too Doug?

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

To me it has a little lemony.

 

[Redcatcher]

What color is this hen? I got a couple of free extra eggs with some Silkie eggs and both hatched out. One was a mille fleur and this is the other one. I think she is a mille fleur without the mottling. She is a very old hen so pardon her appearance.

 

[lilcrow]

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Hummmmmmmmmmmmm.....................

Fascinating.....................???????????????????? How sweet. I think she looks great for an ol' girl!

I'd have to agree with you, she looks like a MF without the MF, very curious, I've never seen anything like it.

Has she ever had chicks and if so, what did they look like?

 

[Redcatcher]

I recently hatched one of her eggs and this is the chick that resulted. A gynandromorph! I wonder if it had anything to do with her odd coloring.

 

[lilcrow]

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WOW!! Unbelievable..................... I absolutely love this forum. It is just wonderful the fascinating things I learn all the time.

I think it's curious that the colors may be sex linked also. It kind of looks like a partridge hen on one side and ??? I'm not sure on the other. It's dark, almost like there is lacing trying to happen, or maybe it's just the partridge pattern that has darkened dramatically.

What a wonderfully interesting bird.

 

[Redcatcher]

Its grandfather is a BLR Wyandotte/ Partridge EE cross so that explains the partridge side and probably the "lacing" from the Wyandotte though kind of messy. I am trying to figure out what is going on with the sides and which one is male and which is female. I am guessing the partridge side is female but I think partridge pullets and cockerels look alike until they mature sexually.

 

[lilcrow]

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How old is it now?
I think you're right about the partridge birds, I think the sexes don't start to differentiate until at least the first molt and sexual maturity. Have any studies been done on these birds? Do they ever reproduce, and do they lean toward one sex or the other, or are they evenly split 50/50, male/female?

 

[Doug the Chicken Man]

Interesting little bird.
I wonder what makes it do that??????