Is it normal for australorp to have this much coloring?

[SmiYa0126]

I'll help identify after dinner. I'm hungry, hard for me to focus on an empty belly.

Someone hangry? Hehe? What's for dinner? I have manicotti in the oven.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Whenever I read a chicken genetics thread I'm just in awe of all of your knowledge

 

[MysteryChicken]

Someone hangry? Hehe? What's for dinner? I have manicotti in the oven.

Alittle bit. Haven't eaten anything since breakfast.
Pork loin, asparagus, mashed potatoes, gravy, & carrots.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Alittle bit. Haven't eaten anything since breakfast.
Pork loin, asparagus, mashed potatoes, gravy, & carrots.

Yum!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I thought the barring gene was "an absence of coloration in the
feather, causing white stripes (bars) on the feathers".

So isn't this just misplaced lacing. Blue Australorps and Blue Marans are laced. The bottom of the hens foot could give a clue to if she was Marans.

I can't see it well, but doesn't that chick have yellow legs?

It's not that defined with blue most of the time.
Better barring is something that needs to be selected towards.

Chicks from white skinned parents can have yellow legs, they often transition to white as they age.

 

[Iluveggers]

Here is my Blue Cuckoo Marans from Ideal, if anyone wants to see what they send. She is about 6 months old now, and lays a darker brown egg than my Welsummer.

 

[NanaK]

It's not that defined with blue most of the time.
Better barring is something that needs to be selected towards.

Beautiful blue but without white bars I would not say cuckoo.
I guess hatcheries get away with that though.

Chicks from white skinned parents can have yellow legs, they often transition to white as they age.

Marans would not have yellow legs. Another thing hatcheries take liberty with.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Beautiful blue but without white bars I would not say cuckoo.
I guess hatcheries get away with that though.


Marans would not have yellow legs. Another thing hatcheries take liberty with.

Clearly you didn't understand what I said, about chick leg color.

 

[NanaK]

Clearly you didn't understand what I said, about chick leg color.

Yes I did. We evidently disagree about Marans leg color. Not a problem just a difference.

 

[3KillerBs]

All of my chicks from white-skinned breeds have had white legs from hatch.

I was under the impression that it's a serious flaw of breeding for them not to.