Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

[HaplessRunner]

I recently hatched 3 EOx chicks. I am trying to figure out whether the father was a Swedish Flower Hen (SFH) rooster or a cream legbar rooster. Cream legbars and their crosses will hatch with wild type chick down. That is, they have chipmunk stripes running down their backs. SFH do not show wild type down. Likewise, I do not recall that EOs show wild type down in the chicks. EOs do show barring in their wing feathers as do cream legbars but SFH do not.

Here are some pics of the first chick. The other two chicks are similar.





Your thoughts?

 

[AuroraSprings]

Our SFH/EO chicks that hatched were all basically Millie Fleur looking or mottled Basque. Some were blue-based too. I'll see if I can find pictures to post here.

 

[Flat Rock farm]

I recently hatched 3 EOx chicks. I am trying to figure out whether the father was a Swedish Flower Hen (SFH) rooster or a cream legbar rooster. Cream legbars and their crosses will hatch with wild type chick down. That is, they have chipmunk stripes running down their backs. SFH do not show wild type down. Likewise, I do not recall that EOs show wild type down in the chicks. EOs do show barring in their wing feathers as do cream legbars but SFH do not.

Here are some pics of the first chick. The other two chicks are similar.





Your thoughts?

I would guess SFH X EO. I could be wrong but I have a SFH chick right now with similar colour and it looks like it may have a crest???

Whatever it is, it sure is cute!!!

 

[HaplessRunner]

I would guess SFH X EO. I could be wrong but I have a SFH chick right now with similar colour and it looks like it may have a crest???

Whatever it is, it sure is cute!!!

Thanks for the input. Cream legbars are crested and SFH may be crested. The roosters that I have are not crested. The biggest factor that leads me to believe the CLB parenting is the wild type down on the chicks back. I really need my EO experts to comment on that. I do not recall that EOs have wild type down color patterns and I know for a fact that SFH do not have wild type color patterns.

If the cream legbar is the father, then it is an Easter Egger and the blue egg genes will have been passed on. This is important for an impending sale.

Yes, it is a good looking chick and getting better.

 

[Flat Rock farm]

I posted your pictures on the EO Forum for you

Yes I think you are right and it is CLB X, they get those stripes, right??

 

[HaplessRunner]

I posted your pictures on the EO Forum for you

Yes I think you are right and it is CLB X, they get those stripes, right??

Many thanks!!! The other two chicks have even more pronounced chipmunk striping. Here are some pictures of CLB chicks. The female has the pronounced chipmunk stripes while the male is muted in his colors and has a white head spot.





Here are some pictures of CL crosses. As you can see, the wild type (chipmunk striping) does pass on to CLB crosses.

CLBxEE Cockerel CLBxRIR Pullet CLBxRIR Pullet



CLBxRIR Pullet CLBxRIR Pullet CLBxBuff Orp (possible cockerel)



CLBxEE (possible pullets)



So when you look at these crosses, you can readily see the wild type down color pattern dominates.

 

[GaryDean26]

Of my fist 17 chicks that I got for foundation stock in 2012, two of them had chipmunk strips. They grew the same and laid the same as all the other EO but were not the standard Marraduna colors. I saw photos of a hatch in Canada 15 months ago that had a bout 30% chipmunk strips too. So the chipmunk strips could be recessive genes in the EO lines.

A lot of odd results have come out of the North American EO lines. The most unexpecting thing I have got was a Recessive Black Cockerel. The only black cockerels I have are Black Copper Marans so at first I assumed that I has a sneaky Marans cockerel, but that was not the case. I tested mated all my Marans cockerel with EO hens to test for recessive genes in the marans lines and all the offspring from the three pens all came out with feathered shanks, but that Ressesive Black copper had yellow shanks with out as much as a feather stub.

 

[HaplessRunner]

Of my fist 17 chicks that I got for foundation stock in 2012, two of them had chipmunk strips. They grew the same and laid the same as all the other EO but were not the standard Marraduna colors. I saw photos of a hatch in Canada 15 months ago that had a bout 30% chipmunk strips too. So the chipmunk strips could be recessive genes in the EO lines.

A lot of odd results have come out of the North American EO lines. The most unexpecting thing I have got was a Recessive Black Cockerel. The only black cockerels I have are Black Copper Marans so at first I assumed that I has a sneaky Marans cockerel, but that was not the case. I tested mated all my Marans cockerel with EO hens to test for recessive genes in the marans lines and all the offspring from the three pens all came out with feathered shanks, but that Ressesive Black copper had yellow shanks with out as much as a feather stub.

Well it would not/should not be possible that these are pure EO chicks since the EO cockerels I have have been exiled to a bachelor pen since just before Thanksgiving.

 

[GaryDean26]

Gotcha...that is going to effect the results then.

 

[southernmomma]

Greetings

How many lines have been imported into the USA?

Thanks,
M