lilwanderer
Crowing
I have multiple questions, not all being a genetic thing- but all about the same chicks.
But I've got 4 chocolate bantam cochins.
All the same age and hatched at the same place and in the same time period.
But 1 has way more feathering, like completely different. The other 3 only have wings ( hardly any) and little pants. I'm aware some just feather slower but its kind of crazy here. They're 2½ weeks old.
Could it mean they're likely boys?
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The 1 with more feathering also has a lot of white spots, I know it's normal on the wing tips (first 2-3 flight feathers) until they're older. But it's also got white all over its chest, and its speckled on the wings. I've never raised chocolates, so maybe this is normal thing?
I went to the lady i got the babies from, and she said her flock was all sold chocolates, she did have 1 mauve hen that had recently passed, but she didn't think she was laying. But this chick doesn't look mauve anyways.
I've got mottled chicks and they're more patchy in larger portions, so I don't think thats the case. And she doesn't have mottled hens or roos.
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Pictures of all- (Each chick pic had been marked with a number of who's who.)
The feathered baby:
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Fathers (Some of the hens are in the back of a few photos):
But I've got 4 chocolate bantam cochins.
All the same age and hatched at the same place and in the same time period.
But 1 has way more feathering, like completely different. The other 3 only have wings ( hardly any) and little pants. I'm aware some just feather slower but its kind of crazy here. They're 2½ weeks old.
Could it mean they're likely boys?
-
The 1 with more feathering also has a lot of white spots, I know it's normal on the wing tips (first 2-3 flight feathers) until they're older. But it's also got white all over its chest, and its speckled on the wings. I've never raised chocolates, so maybe this is normal thing?
I went to the lady i got the babies from, and she said her flock was all sold chocolates, she did have 1 mauve hen that had recently passed, but she didn't think she was laying. But this chick doesn't look mauve anyways.
I've got mottled chicks and they're more patchy in larger portions, so I don't think thats the case. And she doesn't have mottled hens or roos.
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Pictures of all- (Each chick pic had been marked with a number of who's who.)
The feathered baby:
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-
Fathers (Some of the hens are in the back of a few photos):
