Dreamingeeyore
In the Brooder
- Sep 5, 2021
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Hi all!
I got two chicks earlier this year that are now full grown (one is laying, one a roo).
The hen is a barred rock in looks but seems to be an Easter egger as she lays blue/green eggs. She was a slow featherer.
The roo was a white leghorn but was huge and had some black feathers and also a faint golden/tan on some feathers too so I assume he was also crossed with something. He was a fast featherer.
Fast forward to now the roo fertilised eggs in the whole flock (mostly older brown shavers) we incubated and hatched three chicks.
Two came from the blue/green eggs, and one came from a brown.
The biggest one is the brown egg result - fast feathered and mostly leghorn in looks except it too has brown/tan feathers and a few black.
The other two are smaller, and slow featherer like their mother. One is barred looking and the other looks more like father in colouring with a few black feathers.
My questions are
1. Struggling to gender. We checked wings in first two days and they all looked female. But I could be wrong. The older, bigger one is five weeks and the two smaller are 4 weeks.
2. From all my reading on this site, I know about sex link, but is it easy to use this info with such a genetic mix as this?
3. How is it that a fast featherer and a slow featherer can produce two slow featherers? Is that the dominant?
pics now attached.
I got two chicks earlier this year that are now full grown (one is laying, one a roo).
The hen is a barred rock in looks but seems to be an Easter egger as she lays blue/green eggs. She was a slow featherer.
The roo was a white leghorn but was huge and had some black feathers and also a faint golden/tan on some feathers too so I assume he was also crossed with something. He was a fast featherer.
Fast forward to now the roo fertilised eggs in the whole flock (mostly older brown shavers) we incubated and hatched three chicks.
Two came from the blue/green eggs, and one came from a brown.
The biggest one is the brown egg result - fast feathered and mostly leghorn in looks except it too has brown/tan feathers and a few black.
The other two are smaller, and slow featherer like their mother. One is barred looking and the other looks more like father in colouring with a few black feathers.
My questions are
1. Struggling to gender. We checked wings in first two days and they all looked female. But I could be wrong. The older, bigger one is five weeks and the two smaller are 4 weeks.
2. From all my reading on this site, I know about sex link, but is it easy to use this info with such a genetic mix as this?
3. How is it that a fast featherer and a slow featherer can produce two slow featherers? Is that the dominant?
pics now attached.
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