Huh? (Del x BR/blu Amer = BROWN?)*~Post 73- new baby pix! Male?~*

[kathyinmo]

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i love this picture.
she looks like she is saying "could you let me freshen up a bit before you start taking pics..geesh".lol

OH, that is a PERFECT caption!

 

[speckledhen]

Still snowing here and the baby is with Nugget out in the broody pen so will have to rely on poor Tom to take pics of the chick when he goes out to check on everyone later today. Hope she's just like Lilly.

 

[speckledhen]

Sent DH out to take pics of the babies while they came out from under mama. He didn't turn off the red light so I had to lower the red content of the photo, but it doesn't show color that well. He says the baby looks gray, quite unlike the male chick of Riley's I raised here--he had the little eye stripes so we named him Bandit, but he was very black with a tiny head spot. This one does have a spot on its head and with this cross, Delaware sire over a mom who is a Barred Rock/blue Ameraucana cross, I'm thinking this may be a male, too. Oh, pooh.

I couldn't tell it had a spot on its head when Tom took it out to Nugget, but now, it's right there. Bummer.

Genetics folks, please weigh in on this one, if you would. Lily didn't have a head spot so this one is probably male, right, even though it's grayish? Could it be blue barred, you think, unlike Bandit?

Here is Bandit as a chick, full brother to Lilly and this new little one. See how black he was? Next pic after that is the one from the first page of the thread of their sister, Lilly as a chick.

 

[speckledhen]

Updating pics of Lily:

 

[farmerChef]

no egg pics???

 

[Illia]

I don't know if anyone explained why, but the reason you got a brown chick turned mock-Birchen with barring is because it is E^Wh (from the Delaware) and E (from the Ameraucana)


The crossing of the Wheaten and straight black (or in this case, blue) results in a color born black, often with lots of brown, and maturing to mock brown-red/birchen very well. Same happens when you cross duckwing with black.

 

[phasianidae]

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The barring looks a little messed up, probably due to Co/Co?

 

[nicalandia]

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The barring looks a little messed up, probably due to Co/Co?

actully show stock Barred birds carry Co to make the barring alot nicer not messy...

 

[nicalandia]

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I've never seen birds with this type of pattern...interesting

 

[speckledhen]

I was told that Delawares carry dark brown (is that Db or eb or what?)was the only explanation. Never heard they had wheaten. I have a mental block when it comes to gene designations so you can tell me all day long about them with all their accompanying symbols and I promise, it will never sink in. I just can't get it, sorry. I have no idea what Co/Co is or E is. I was just updating older pics of the bird (no egg pics--her eggs are not surprisingly, brown, since you can see she has a single comb). She is very interesting, I think. I'll stick with my barred Rocks and the BBS Rocks-much easier to understand!