Just for fun

[madrona]

First, thank you to all who guessed about Clovis!

I'll post what he is tomorrow. (Sorry for being slow in returning to the forum; I was travelling for the last couple days and away from the computer.)

Meanwhile:

Nobody so far has made a correct guess!

When Clovis was hatched, I did not own any Rhode Island Reds, Leghorns, red sex links, or gold sex links. I did own Buff Orpington hens, but the male offspring of those hens with Clovis's father (my only rooster) looked distinctly and recognizably different. Those orpington-cross offspring had much smaller combs and blockier bodies.

Hint #1: Neither of Clovis's parents had even one white feather.

Hint #2: Clovis's mother (who went broody twice in one year) is of a breed which is consistently labelled in every reference source as NOT being broody.

More hints tonight...

 

[fshinggrl]

Black Austrolope (sp?) and umm... Black star?

 

[madrona]

fshinggrl --

Nope.

Let's see. Two more hints:

Clovis inherited his tall single comb and somewhat slender body type from his mother.

His father's breed matures slowly and is not supposed to be all that good at egg production, which is why we ended up culling his father from the flock last fall.

 

[madrona]

If anyone is still tuned in, Clovis is the offspring of a partridge cochin rooster and a buff minorca hen.

 

[fshinggrl]

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I would never have guessed that!

Cool!

 

[farmerChef]

I don't think I would ever guessed Cochin! Or partrdge! He's pretty!He's colored almost like my unknown mixed breed rooster
"phoenix"

he's stocky, but has short legs, he probly weights about 3-4 lbs

 

[lady feathers]

I have one too that looks like yours except hackles are darker red... but tail is white also! I believe he is either a mix of RIR x BO, ISA brown x BO, or
RIR x ISA brown? I think that's what my mother-in-law has and we got him from her. He is super sweet though.... even gets bullied a bit by the girls every now and then!

 

[Gypsy07]

That's so interesting. And surprising! My first thought was Leghorn....

 

[Chickenrandomness]

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Wow! our roosters must be brothers! lol, my unknown mix Nate, has short legs and weighs about the same to!

i don't believe i added a picture of my little Nate yet, but even if i have, here he is again

 

[PioneerPrincess]

If anyone is still tuned in, Clovis is the offspring of a partridge cochin rooster and a buff minorca hen.

Wow! He is a handsome rooster! Do you have any hens like him out of Clovis's parents? I wonder if I could get a chicken like yours out of my Buff Minorca roo and Bantam Partridge Cochin hen? That would be really neat.