Miscellaneous Meeps - Hatching my Dreams

[TwoCrows]

I don't think I'll ever get passed being amazed at how they go from a spec to a chick in 21 days, it's so amazing!

I don't seeing this speck turning into a life ever gets old. It will always be amazing!

 

[TwoCrows]

Good morning eggies! Up and at em', it's hump day!

 

[GreenJay]

good morning little eggies, keep up the good work!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I took a peak!

I have a lot developing! No GNs but it looks like 1, likely 2 of the silkie / GN crosses are started! I didn't turn the room lights off and was trying to move fast so if it wasn't craY obvious that they were growing I didn't mess with them. Waiting on Saturday for a full candling!

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I may have missed it, what does GN stand for?

This little one wasn't thrilled with getting its photo taken and I didn't get a good angle on the color coming in on the wings, but I'm still thinking this may be a chocolate splash. I had two like this and sold one. You can see the little dark spot of a feather up near its back.

What genes did the rooster have to have to create a chocolate splash from my chocolate hen?

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Assuming you mean splash as in blue / black / splash, that could not have come from a Chocolate hen. Splash requires that the chick inherits a blue gene from both parents, and since the gene is a partial dominant, it expresses if even one copy is present. A Chocolate hen has no blue genes to impart or otherwise she would instead be Mauve, so the offspring of a Chocolate parent could never genotypically be splash. There are colorations that can mimic the appearance of splash, though, such as blue paint. Is it possible the chick is blue or mauve paint, maybe? What are the possible fathers?

 

[2ndTink]

I may have missed it, what does GN stand for?




Assuming you mean splash as in blue / black / splash, that could not have come from a Chocolate hen. Splash requires that the chick inherits a blue gene from both parents, and since the gene is a partial dominant, it expresses if even one copy is present. A Chocolate hen has no blue genes to impart or otherwise she would instead be Mauve, so the offspring of a Chocolate parent could never genotypically be splash. There are colorations that can mimic the appearance of splash, though, such as blue paint. Is it possible the chick is blue or mauve paint, maybe? What are the possible fathers?

@pipdzipdnreadytogo to the rescue of this mystery! Ok, the potential fathers are blue, blue with some sort of partridge something going on, black split to chocolate, then there was some diluted / silver partridge with a lot of red leakage. I really have no clue what else they are hiding genetically. No chance of paint though, I have had him, wait hold the ponies... I have to think now... heading to check my photos to get the date I marched my little terrorizing Chonkers up to the layers coop... ok, I moved him just before Christmas and didn't get my first eggs until mid-January. Not likely to be from him? He's a paint with a chocolate gene but is expressing black for some reason. Nope, can't be him he got booted early December for bad behavior

And, I know the chocolate hen I have is truly chocolate because she is from a chocolate rooster with no chocolate hens in the pen, so the only way to be chocolate was for her to be a female.

Here is the blue


blue / partridge something or other, he was hatched with brownish down and chipmunk stripes


silver / partridge who knows what? Lol. He was born silver and had faint chipmunk stripes



And the black split to chocolate of course just is solid black.

GN is the Golden Necked D'uccles! I would love to have maybe 2 pullets to be so cute hanging out with my Ameraucana bantams, we'll see if anyone develops.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Alright, tagging some peeps who have been on my other hatch-a-longs, come join the madness!

@ElfenLied89 @GreenJay @ShrekDawg @Antiocheggers @pipdzipdnreadytogo @fluffycrow @Obsessed With Silkies @CoopBoots @QueenofKings @TinyHandsHomestead105 @Sc_chickengirl @Galaxy_rules @BantyChooks @Nero70002 @GirlsHuntToo @Chive @Oob Child @LTAY1946 @1Slayer @tlcmurphy @NagemTX @Tookie @Insnesnakos @KathiQuacks

I'm gonna start owing chick support with all these babies I keep picking

 

[fluffycrow]

I'm gonna start owing chick support with all these babies I keep picking

A couple of people on here have on their threads what they call "chicken tax". I think it's a brilliant idea

 

[ElfenLied89]

I will take a Chonkers EE egg and call them.... Chonky Boo. Or Godzilla the 2nd. Whichever is more fun to say.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Oh and Millefleurs are awesome too, all so pretty! ❤

Look here. I seriously wish I had room to have some of each breed. Pokemon but with chickens. Hubs wants a Serama now btw. No roosters. Only hens. I still have 2 roosters I need to rehome. Pelican and Thales. Lucky and Kithara are staying. Unless they end up mean. Then they will grace my kitchen table with their presence.

 

[ElfenLied89]

A couple of people on here have on their threads what they call "chicken tax". I think it's a brilliant idea

I am all up for getting some eggs to hatch from these babies I picked. That counts right? Just have to find a way to hide peeping babies from my husband