EE crossbred questions--pics of cockerel p. 3

[michickenwrangler]

Thank you, Illia, you've been very helpful

 

[ChickenWisperer]

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He came from Townline Hatchery so I doubt they are keeping the meticulous breeding records of breeders.

"Hey, Townline, I got an EE chick out of the bin at the TSC in West Branch, MI. Anyhoo, it was a silver-chipmunk color and this was mid-April. So ... you happen to know the chick's parents and if they're homozygous for the blue gene for eggs? Just wonderin'."

Yeah, that's the problem. I'd assume he's heterozygous, to be on the safe side - especially since he's from a hatchery.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Here's pictures of the cockerel: Twinkie (don't ask, DH named him and I was supposed to get rid of him and keep Snickers)

So what color would you call this?

And what possible color combos would he have with RSLs and BSLs?

Again, this is for curiosity's sake and for my own layers.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

I honestly don't think there is a way to describe that color. I would call it mixed. There is too much there for me to decipher what's going on.... the best I could guess is spangled and duckwing?

 

[draye]

Wow, very beautiful. I'd call that some kind of spangled breast or something on that order. He being an Araucana (Easter Egger) he should mix well with red and black sex links.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

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He is not an Araucana

He is an EasterEgger though. EasterEggers are mutts, birds crossbred with other breeds or not meeting breed requirements/standards.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Thank you.

DH hates the chicken but as soon as I told him that people here on BYC thought he was handsome, he started strutting like a rooster himself.

I always thought his color was pretty and unusual (gorgeous chick he was, a fuzzy little silver chipmunk) and his personality is very nice. He's a nice flock rooster for non-descript layers. He doesn't go after DD, he's not too rough on the hens and he looks after them. I would like to see him perpetuated as well as my hens, but I do understand that they would be nothing more than mixed layers.

 

[draye]

He is not an Araucana

He is an EasterEgger though. EasterEggers are mutts, birds crossbred with other breeds or not meeting breed requirements/standards.

I know he's not according to the standard for Araucana, I put that inregard to him looking like one (Rumpless). That is also why I put Easter Egger in ( ). And I would thank you to not call my chickens mutts.​

 

[Illia]

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I know he's not according to the standard for Araucana, I put that inregard to him looking like one (Rumpless). That is also why I put Easter Egger in ( ). And I would thank you to not call my chickens mutts.

I'm sorry, but in America, Araucanas do not have beards, muffs, or white skin. . .


His color, though it looks very difficult to describe, is actually just a golden duckwing with perhaps some dominant white coming through and some melanizers. (the white "spangling" on him) It happens a lot with Easter Eggers.

draye - Noone was calling your birds in particular "mutts," just clarifying that Easter Eggers are indeed "mutts," as most have no goal in their breeding. Araucanas do.

As for crossing him - The RSL's will give you colors a lot like this, both of them being with dominant white. . . You'd actually get a good chance of pure white bird with gold smutting on it.

The BSL's will cross with him to give you birds that look like typical EE coloring.

 

[michickenwrangler]

So if my partridge cochin hen happened to "accidentally" wander into the pen with him and he just happened to "service" her, what kind of coloring would that be? Aren't the golden duckwing and partridge kinda tied to one another?

Although every bone in my Arabian horse-pedigree-memorizing body balks at mating one of my quality non-hatchery cochins to some EE of dubious background, I'm curious now.