Java Thread

[Chickielady]

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I've never seen a Java chick with that coloration: unless, perhaps, you have the 'so-called' Auburns.

I have never seen a pureblood java chick hatch with that coloration either..in fact, I have never seen any chick hatch with that coloration.
Cute little guy though!!
I must edit to add: That really is a pretty chick, seriously, I would band that one and watch it as it grows up...and find out the sire & dam..

 

[Chickielady]

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So you going to let us guess, or are you going to tell us her bloodlines ?

 

[rsf31tmp]

I honestly don't know her blood lines, just the she is a chick from some Java's that are in the line of Lyle's birds. So she goes back to those Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

Here are some pics of her from this afternoon.

I love her neck

another angle

3rd angle

 

[cedar post]

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Is she from java to java? I've seen some from Lyles line that look just the same. She looks like a big bird. Beautiful

 

[rsf31tmp]

oh yeah, she is Java to Java and I think this chick is hers

 

[Chickielady]

you may be very right !
can you mark the egg which she lays from now on ?
Maybe make a trap nest or just watch when she lays ?
She looks almost partridge...

 

[javachick]

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Hi rsf31tmp

She is a lovely lady. Do you think your hen might have Welsummer in her?

Feathersite.com has a good photo of a Welsummer hen.

Link: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wels/BRKWelsummers.html

javachick

 

[cedar post]

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Hi rsf31tmp

She is a lovely lady. Do you think your hen might have Welsummer in her?

Feathersite.com has a good photo of a Welsummer hen.

Link: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Wels/BRKWelsummers.html

javachick

She is a java starting to express the auburn gene is all. Now breed from her and try to extract the correct coloration and spangleing.

 

[rsf31tmp]

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The only ways I know what eggs comes from what hens are:

1) by egg color and that is not an exact science
2) seeing a hen in a box and finding one egg....sometimes 8-10 eggs are in a box

Two hens I know for sure, 1) my easter egger that lays mint green eggs and 2) I have a RIR mix that lays a super dark cherry egg
My Java's and my Barred Rocks lay lighter eggs, my SLW lay a slightly darker egg and my sex-links lay a brown egg.

At times there are 18 eggs in he nest boxes and I would say about 10 different shades of brown and one green.

When I is a bit warmer, I will put all my Java's in one pen and hatch all Java eggs

 

[rsf31tmp]

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Lyle let my neighbor borrow a "Auburn Java Roo" and some black java hens and a few hens that were black and auburn mixed. Both my Sgt. Pepper and Goldilocks are from these birds. I think Sgt. Pepper came from a hatch or two before Goldilocks.

I am hoping that this:

plus this:

= this: