Genetics Experts - Can someone please explain HOW this happened???

[HenThymes]

Our neighbor has our orpington stock exclusively. I know the parentage as I still own them. This weekend their solid black bantam orp hen became a mom for the first time, dad of the chicks can only be either a solid black bantam orp or a splash bantam orp ad these are the only two they have. Where is the world did this coloring come from!!!

I still hatch from the parent stock of these offspring and have nothing like these hatch, mine are all black or blue depending on what rooster/hen cross. I am just stumped.

There are a total of 4 chicks in these colors.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I've learned through the years it doesn't matter how well you know your parent/breeder stock something genetic can and will pop up with your generations anywhere down the line.

Doesn't matter what someone else sold you it happens more often than you think!

 

[ChooksChick]

OOOOH!!

What fun! It will be exiting to watch them feather out. (In a singsong voice) Ooooooooh,Henk69!!!??? What's going on here?

 

[ChooksChick]

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Errrr... EXCITING, that is.

 

[HenThymes]

I about hit the floor when I came around the corner and these are what I saw!

Definitely not what I was expecting at all. The good thing it that if they grow out to be anything cool.... I can start a new bantam orp project.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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There ya go!!! Never a glass half empty but a glass half full!!!

 

[big medicine]

Your neighbor didn't have some one watching their birds, or a family member, with a sense of humor maybe ? Time will tell.

 

[HenThymes]

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Nope, we are the only ones who tend to their animals when there gone and no one around them has any chickens, let alone any that could get into their coop.

I actually brought that last one down to my house to hatch out as mom had gotten off the nest with the other three. The eggs are hers, they only have a few chickens and she is the only bantam orp hen they have and only two roosters and both are bantam orps.

 

[big medicine]

Just checking, wouldn't be the first time somebody swiched eggs as a joke.

 

[tazcat70]

I like em!