Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[cjwaldon]

I have no idea why it posted my avatar pic in my post.

 

[ChicKat]

tried to quote CJWaldon -- and it didn't work - so I edited it in.
"Oh no! However, falling off is preferable to growing in, so there's something good about the situation."

agreed - and count me in on the -- match the chick to the juvenile game. ;O)

 

[ChicKat]

4 Boys left last wk end and I didn't snap picts. One had that same crest -- peach colored longer center feather and two rounder lavender feathers - one on each side. Still have that one little guy here that started the trend.

We had 3 1/2 inches come down and there was a bit of pandemonium in the pens. Silver Jackson got out (of the play-pen)-- and so since I caught him, I tried to get some snaps. He did 1. turn out to be male and 2. looks to be growing bars on his plumage. Yay. But

3. Also looks like he is going to have a crest.

The pewter color of the eye - I think is the transition color on its way to yellow. Have one pullet here with lavender eye --

I'm thinking this is the expression of a single cresting gene and the wonderful little guy that CJ posted a few posts back is double crested.

Background pullet is single crested foreground non-crested and these two are the pheontype more like the darker body and the lighter hackles -- but in this rain-light it doesn't show the same way it does in post #547,

This pullet, the other phenotype, darker hackles. Wow -- notice how much her comb and face are reddening.

 

[ChicKat]

Here are a couple more -

Bart: getting color, showing barring and keeping his duckwing -- all admirable achievements - behind him Barbara and Pearl.

Barbara, she's the dark hackles demo in the above post. These are my first 3 lavender-patterned Isabels hatched here, and Bart and Barbara are barred.


here you can see two different pullet/juveniles that show the two phenotypes that I'm seeing -- dark head and hackles and lighter head and hackles. Pict is out-of-focus, sorry -- but the colors/pattern are discernable from it.

BTW - I like to worm pullets a bit before their first egg is due, and I use a pour-on based on weight. Bart weighed 4.5, Pearl 4 and Barbara 3.5 pounds.

 

[Finnie]

Bart is turning out gorgeous!

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks Finnie, I think so too.

 

[cjwaldon]

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Bart: getting color, showing barring and keeping his duckwing -- all admirable achievements - behind him Barbara and Pearl.

 

[campingshaws]

Jim has learned that if he follows me for chick chores, I'll slip him a little starter crumble. Yesterday he brought Amethyst and Opal with him.

 

[ChicKat]

He's one smart cookie. aHA! and there are some folk who believe chickens are dumb. Nice he takes care of the girls..... pretty soon you will have a whole flock following you for chores!

 

[campingshaws]

Ok, I put numbered bands on the isabels and the numbers are already running off! Please ignore the poop. They are beyond ready to be out of that brooder and sleep in a big pile.

#1 (I think was Mr. Pink)

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