Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

[Farmgirl283420]

This years breeding session opens with a 50 shades of gray theme. Due to the unexpected death of my nice little black rooster (I think he've gotten in a fight with another one and broke his neck against the coop, I found him lying straight on his back, dead, a hour before he was all well) I put every egg from his girls available into the incubator. Got 7 little chicks with color variation from solid black (comb and beak included) to slate blue, two black mottled maybe.

The millefleurs are still a difficult theme. Currently I have the last batch of hopefully MF eggs in the incubator, due in a couple of weeks.

Anyway, things looking bright this season.

Chicks are just so cute! I’m glad things are going well, sorry about your rooster.

These are somme of my black pearls and the late rooster

Very pretty.

and here some of my Millefleurs, it's still quite difficult tohatch or find birds who respect le standards color scheme, which is quite restrictive when it comes to the color pattern.

This makes me want some

 

[Amer]

and here some of my Millefleurs, it's still quite difficult tohatch or find birds who respect le standards color scheme, which is quite restrictive when it comes to the color pattern.

The millefluers are so pretty!

 

[Amer]

For those who are interested, I had some oddly colored wheaten mottled(?) offspring this year. I bought a light yellow mottled hen this spring and bred her to a) a eww blue mille fleur and later to an black eb-millefleur - i got a whole palet off yellow and wheaten mottled hens, not one alike the other.

The fist was a indefined yellow pullet with lighter wings and tail. I can't say how she turn out definitly because I rehomed her.
Then I got a wheaten without black markings which let me think the hen has to have some dominante white to erase any dark color. this was confirmed by the third pullet, full sister who is now sommes sort of light wheaten mottled.
The cross with the eb millefleur produced a real yellow mottled pullet who is currently very pretty. It looks like a "real" color. as a chick she was buff colored, with a touch of orange.

Wow! She is so pretty! It's like a coral color, pinkish.