How is this possible?

[americana-chick]

I hatched out one of my EE hens eggs and guess what i got.. a chick that looks nothing like her! This chick actually looks nothinglike any of the chicks in my flock. He almost looks like a blue laced red and i wish i could keep him but he is related to one of my hens and i wouldnt want to risk interbreeding them. At the time there where only 2 possible roos in the pen with her so which one do you think mated with her and what made the chick have that blue laced red look?
Hen:

white wyandotte roo:

OEGB/EE roo:

Chick:

 

[TimG]

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That shouldn't be a big deal. Inbreeding is common in chickens.

I don't know the answer to your genetics question. What kind of silver/white is a White Wyandotte? The answer to that might answer your question.

What came first? the chicken or the egg?.... the CHICKEN how else would the egg be laid?

My son says that dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens existed. So, obviously the egg came first.​

 

[CoopCrazy]

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That shouldn't be a big deal. Inbreeding is common in chickens.

I don't know the answer to your genetics question. What kind of silver/white is a White Wyandotte? The answer to that might answer your question.

What came first? the chicken or the egg?.... the CHICKEN how else would the egg be laid?

My son says that dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens existed. So, obviously the egg came first.​

I agree with TimG.. and Tim your son is very smart young man.. Me and a few friends fought that argument out for two straight days and we all agree that the Egg came first..

To the OP.. I wouldnt worry at all about interbreeding it just isnt the same with chickens as mammals..

 

[Chris09]

It is hard to say, your White Orpington cross could be hiding some of that color in it background. White is good at covering other colors up or the chick could have got the coloring from the EE hen..
FYI - You might want to coat the White Orpington cross's legs with some Vaseline or spray them real good with WD-40 because he has a bad case of Scaly Legs mites..

Chris

 

[RAREROO]

It's not suprising that he doesn't look like your other chicks, after all, you're crossing two mutts so who knows what he could look like. your chick appears to have blue in him so I would say the the blue OE X EE roo is the dad.

And it doesn't hurt to breed him with hens he is related too, breeders do it all the time in sibling crosses or line breeding to get certain traits they want in their birds. It would be perfectly fine to keep him if you want.

 

[americana-chick]

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I already know he has scaly leg mites. I have been trying to get rid of them and i have used vaseline and other products but they wont go away..

 

[americana-chick]

Thanks everyone. I heard somewhere that inbreeding can make the offspring eat eggs, not be quite as fertile, and a few other things.

 

[americana-chick]

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That shouldn't be a big deal. Inbreeding is common in chickens.

I don't know the answer to your genetics question. What kind of silver/white is a White Wyandotte? The answer to that might answer your question.

What came first? the chicken or the egg?.... the CHICKEN how else would the egg be laid?

My son says that dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens existed. So, obviously the egg came first.​

I agree with TimG.. and Tim your son is very smart young man.. Me and a few friends fought that argument out for two straight days and we all agree that the Egg came first..

To the OP.. I wouldnt worry at all about interbreeding it just isnt the same with chickens as mammals..

I still disagree.. what i am talking about is a CHICKEN egg not a dino egg. let me fix it so people dont get confused anymore.. lol

 

[RAREROO]

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That shouldn't be a big deal. Inbreeding is common in chickens.

I don't know the answer to your genetics question. What kind of silver/white is a White Wyandotte? The answer to that might answer your question.


My son says that dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens existed. So, obviously the egg came first.

I agree with TimG.. and Tim your son is very smart young man.. Me and a few friends fought that argument out for two straight days and we all agree that the Egg came first..

To the OP.. I wouldnt worry at all about interbreeding it just isnt the same with chickens as mammals..

I still disagree.. what i am talking about is a CHICKEN egg not a dino egg. let me fix it so people dont get confused anymore.. lol

What did the chicken hatch from then ?

 

[Chris09]

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I already know he has scaly leg mites. I have been trying to get rid of them and i have used vaseline and other products but they wont go away..

If the vaseline didnt work then you could try ivermectin oral or topical, use ivomec injectable for oral treatment and you will need a syringe to get ivomec out of the bottle, and you can use it to apply the dosage listed below by holding the birds mouth open, and dripping it into the back of its throat. Another method is to apply the correct dosage to a piece of bread, then feed it to the bird you are treating. The oral treatment also good for treatment of lice, mites and worms..

5 to 7 drops orally for adult size birds.
3 to 5 drops orally for bantam size birds.

http://www.merckveterinarymanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/204715.htm

Chris