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Peepers Mama, some of those silver Ameraucanas, look a lot like the bantam, rboeg x black and white japanese hen I had. She was a sweetie. How funny that the colors are so similar in some of them to her.
I checked and one of my EE chicks is definitely black and brown in better lighting perhaps two. So Pearl is the only black and white only chick out of the bantams. I have one identified standard hen that is a girl and she is a gorgeous lavender and white stripey spotted look right now while her feathers come in.
I was told my girl was a straight up rboeg but when her feathers came in I looked up everything and she looked so much like the silver duckwings. She was very white so not as much like the gold duckwings. Then I remembered the Japanese bantam rooster that had been running around when I picked up my chicks and figured out who the daddy was.Ah yes. Oh how to explain the complicated genes behind that.... Bbr, silver duckwing (like the ameraucanas), and gold duckwing, all have VERY similar genetic makeup. If you add the silver gene to a bbr, then the chicks while be gold DW. Mae sense?![]()
Oh man, sounds like you have some colorful babies!!that's one of the things I love about EEs, they're all different!![]()
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WOW she's beautiful!!!
Oh yeah, theyre both silvers. Hmm, I see they both have pink feet. Can't remember what color feet Jap's have, but since both of the OEs have the correct foot color and pretty decent conformation, I'd say that they are/were(?) purebred. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Coyotes are horrible..... I hate them. They stole my Super LucyI was told my girl was a straight up rboeg but when her feathers came in I looked up everything and she looked so much like the silver duckwings. She was very white so not as much like the gold duckwings. Then I remembered the Japanese bantam rooster that had been running around when I picked up my chicks and figured out who the daddy was.The rooster there was from the same cross. Well same Daddy anyway. I had a coyote come through and take out all six of my flock. My chicks are our new beginning. I loved my Banties and I'm loving getting to raise all my chicks by hand this time. I had some second hand birds that taught me a lot but had medical issues and took a long time to tame. This time I needed birds that looked nothing like my girls so I went wild with the breeds and so, ee's, mille fleur d'uccles, mottled cochins, all bantams then an egyptian fayoumi, standard EE, two partridge cochins, two speckled sussex, a blue andelusian and two silver spangled apenzeller spitzhaubens. Now that I'm hooked on EE's I really hope one of them is a rooster though because I do want to hatch more bantams down the road so I can get more girls.
It is so cute and think that it is my new favorite chicken
Fern is the standard and is about the same size as Ida right now. I ordered by three bantam ee's from Meyers Hatchery. Fern was the only one I picked from the mystery chick bin that wasn't in my original order. The bin was all girls and they told me she was a standard size. She is beautiful but I"m surprised by her size compared to the others. On the other hand my partridge cochin will be 8lbs when full grown is only a third bigger than my bantam chicks.Okay whichever baby is in the back of the last picture is a roo hands down. HUUUUUGE COMB![]()
Ida might be a roo.... Big chance, but give it another week or so and it'll be obvious what she is.
Bantam EEs are really rare. If Ida is still the same size as them, then either they're all just really small or they're all standard sized.