Miscellaneous Meeps - Hatching my Dreams

[TwoCrows]

Pipd to the rescue!

Let me see if I can find the chick photos. I think the light colored one was pure white and extra fluffy. Will look for pics...

These chicks are from my "BBS" silkies, but I had the one blue partridge, and then that mauve, all three of these should be from those two females and I had a blue satin male with them.

Ok, found a bunch of photos, hopefully I can pair them up correctly!

Two had chipmunk stripes, one was solid yellowy/ white

The ones with original pg stripes as chicks
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Yellow / white chick
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Baby pics, the two chipmunk chicks are the two blue based satins ans the pale one I have is one of the two yellow / white chicks in the box (not the smokey chick though)
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All beautiful!

 

[2ndTink]

I still think they are love bites.

I agree

 

[2ndTink]

I still think they are love bites.

Oh, and he got me last night. I was already petting him and he turned his head and got my arm, there's an inch between the point of the top beak and bottom beak marks on my arm

 

[TwoCrows]

Oh, and he got me last night. I was already petting him and he turned his head and got my arm, there's an inch between the point of the top beak and bottom beak marks on my arm

Oh no, there's no love in the bites anymore!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I looked up wheaten chickens and other than the black in her hackles, it does look possible. Now I'm wondering, where did that come from!?! Is wheaten recessive and takes two copies?

Males I have to cross her with (next year) are a mauve, chocolate frizzle, black, and light blue. Would any of these throw cool patterns with her? Or will they just make "normal" color patterns?

Wheaten is kind of a middle-of-the-road e-locus gene as far as dominance goes. It tends to be partially or co-dominant with the eb and e+ genes from my understanding. There is allegedly a recessive wheaten gene as well... I just don't personally know anything about its expression or behavior. I don't know how much you know about the parents' background, but Buff and Red varieties of most breeds are wheaten-based, so if either of those were crossed in at some point then that's where it would have come from.

Looking at the chick down and the parents, I think it's completely possible for the mother to be EWh/eb based on how a lot of Easter-eggers who are genetically that combination look, and the father looks to be E or ER based but could be carrying EWh or eb because E or ER would cover those up. The light chicks with stripes are eb/eb or maybe EWh/eb. EWh/EWh wheaten chick down usually is yellow or whitish, sometimes with some gray or brown striping. So I'd say looking at all of that together that your satins are a partridge eb based pair and then a wheaten pullet.

 

[2ndTink]

Oh no, there's no love in the bites anymore!

Maybe that's his love language?

 

[TwoCrows]

Maybe that's his love language?

Lets keep this theory alive!

 

[2ndTink]

Lets keep this theory alive!

He didn't bite me tonight! I mean, he wanted to, but I avoided the strike zones and scooped him up he seemed confused and couldn't relax, poor guy.

 

[2ndTink]

The grow outs just got their run finished yesterday so still aren't venturing out yet. Hopefully tomorrow they'll be out and about and I can get some photos in the natural light.

These two mauves are almost identical in color and seem to be uniform, no variation in their color like the Piper mauve cockerel. So interesting! The one does have a straight comb but I will breed her anyway, if very many chicks hatch with a straight comb I may remove her, but if not, these are just pet quality adorable floofs anyway but I'll pair them with either Mini Muffin or the chocolate frizzle (the mauve frizzle of course would not get this option).

This photo makes them look more different in color than the naked eye, the one on the left is the frizzle


This shows the color better. It's like the color of the water when washing your car after a long drive down a dirt road


And the Piper cockerel


Might he be a fun cross with my two satins? He had some chipmunk stiping as a chick.

I'm still working on digesting the Wheaten genetics this might take me awhile!

 

[wrathsfarm]

He didn't bite me tonight! I men, he wanted to, but I avoided the strike zones and scooped him up he seemed confused and couldn't relax, poor guy.

I'm no therapist here, (or anger management teacher) but it seems to me your giving him anxiety and a complex.

I would just give in to the biting because that's just your connection and bond with him. I mean after a few months the skin will scar and callous and it won't be as painful....