Meet Hiccup

[RowanTheRed]

Hiccup is one of the chicks hatched from my Mother's Day weekend incubation. He started off as a blue chick but as his male colors came in he has become one of the more handsome cockerels I have seen.

His mom is a splash orpington and his father is either my lavender ameraucana or my easter egger (that I no longer have). I love his color combinations and his markings.

 

[Ptera]

Handsome boy!

 

[Sneebsey]

Gorgeous boy. His father is likely the EE; both the Orp and the Am should be based on Extended Black, therefore you would not see any of the lovely gold colour.

 

[Ladybird CA]

So majestic, I love the combination of blue and red, reminds me of the sky

 

[silkiemother]

so adorable!it must be hard to be mad at him

 

[Shorty22366]

He is beautiful.

 

[RowanTheRed]

Handsome boy!

Thanks

 

[The Phantom]

I love the combination of colors!!!

 

[RowanTheRed]

Gorgeous boy. His father is likely the EE; both the Orp and the Am should be based on Extended Black, therefore you would not see any of the lovely gold colour.

thanks. At first I was certain that the EE was the daddy. However we sold him half way into May and since then we have had two broody hens each hatch a clutch of eggs. Among these we are having colors I wouldn't think were possible with the lavender being based on extended black. We have 2 cockerels right now that are black with red and gold coming in and they were hatched at the end of July to 2nd week of August. The mother to these two is a brown leghorn. And we have had 2 white chicks to hatch as well. One I sold so I am not certain how it looks now, but the other one is snow white with black spots coming in quite a bit now. I though that the mother to the white ones were from one of my golden comets, the build of the pullet looks more like her than the leghorn. And I know it isn't from the splash because all of her chicks (4 so far) have been blue.

here is the lavender roo, you can see he has some golds bleeding through so that was why I thought that he might be the dad to Hiccup.

 

[RowanTheRed]

So majestic, I love the combination of blue and red, reminds me of the sky

so adorable!it must be hard to be mad at him

He is beautiful.

I love the combination of colors!!!

thanks everyone. I love his color combination too. And so far, he has been a good young cockerel. Hopefully he will stay that way!