Mosaic Chickens?

[Ilovechickens2525]

Here she is at 6 weeks. I know there’s been a lot of doubt/negativity toward where I got her from. However to my (admittedly untrained) eye her skin does look quite blue, so I imagine there is some amount of mosaic in her, I’m not aware of any other breed with blue skin?

Hoping to hear from others who have raised mosaics as to whether she’s looking more like a pullet or cockerel?

In the second pic, she is on the left. The chick on the right is also 6 weeks but I think a cockerel, much larger/pinker comb and wattles are evident. I’m a little worried they both might be cockerels because of the feathers. But I’ve never raised mosaics and it could just be the patterning…

 

[Pigeony]

Here she is at 6 weeks. I know there’s been a lot of doubt/negativity toward where I got her from. However to my (admittedly untrained) eye her skin does look quite blue, so I imagine there is some amount of mosaic in her, I’m not aware of any other breed with blue skin?

Hoping to hear from others who have raised mosaics as to whether she’s looking more like a pullet or cockerel?

In the second pic, she is on the left. The chick on the right is also 6 weeks but I think a cockerel, much larger/pinker comb and wattles are evident. I’m a little worried they both might be cockerels because of the feathers. But I’ve never raised mosaics and it could just be

Here she is at 6 weeks. I know there’s been a lot of doubt/negativity toward where I got her from. However to my (admittedly untrained) eye her skin does look quite blue, so I imagine there is some amount of mosaic in her, I’m not aware of any other breed with blue skin?

Hoping to hear from others who have raised mosaics as to whether she’s looking more like a pullet or cockerel?

In the second pic, she is on the left. The chick on the right is also 6 weeks but I think a cockerel, much larger/pinker comb and wattles are evident. I’m a little worried they both might be cockerels because of the feathers. But I’ve never raised mosaics and it could just be the patterning…

They do appear to be "mosaics" per se, but are quite light in feather and skin color for mosaics. Also much browner than most I've seen, they tend to be somewhat monochrome with maybe brown hints here and there. I unfortunately do suspect both are males.

 

[Pigeony]

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@Ilovechickens2525 This is a male at about a month and a half.

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Here are two of my females at the same age (ignore the middle pullet, not a mosaic). Notice how much more white the male's face is. His chest was already growing in darker colors at this point, but when he hatched out he had a lot more white on his chest as well as on his face.

@Ilovechickens2525 These were my chicks at similar ages. Both males and females had completely dark skin, the male only started to pink up closer to maturity and even then it was subtle (I don't have him anymore). My females still have completely black combs and leg skin and may not even develop any color in them at POL.

 

[Ilovechickens2525]

They do appear to be "mosaics" per se, but are quite light in feather and skin color for mosaics. Also much browner than most I've seen, they tend to be somewhat monochrome with maybe brown hints here and there. I unfortunately do suspect both are males.

They do appear to be "mosaics" per se, but are quite light in feather and skin color for mosaics. Also much browner than most I've seen, they tend to be somewhat monochrome with maybe brown hints here and there. I unfortunately do suspect both are males.

Thank you, that’s helpful. Can you tell me what’s indicating male to you? I am finding the mosaics much trickier than other breeds I’ve had.

I have hatched 4 more mosaics since, they are two weeks old. 2 have blue skin and 2 are lighter (like the one on the right in the pic I shared). Seems to be an issue this breeder is having, some of her stock isn’t strong with blue skin I guess.

Anyway, I suspect I’ll have trouble telling which are pullets and cockerels with the younger ones too. So, it’s good to know what to look for. They seem to feather out slower than other breeds? Or maybe it’s just because my two are both cockerels and that’s why they are a bit slower feathering out.

 

[Ilovechickens2525]

Pictures of the two week olds. As you can see, two don’t have the blue skin really at all. I do fear all of these might be cockerels as well.

In the first pic, the one on the left has a red speck coming through on the comb. The one on the right doesn’t but it’s a very dominant little chick. It is quite a bit slighter/smaller than the other though.

The two lighter skinned ones in the second pic aren’t blue skinned at all so I’m not sure how strong they are as actual mosaics (like the one with the bigger comb I got in my first hatch).

 

[Ilovechickens2525]

@Ilovechickens2525 These were my chicks at similar ages. Both males and females had completely dark skin, the male only started to pink up closer to maturity and even then it was subtle (I don't have him anymore). My females still have completely black combs and leg skin and may not even develop any color in them at POL.

Ok I see, the colouring is the bigger indicator.

Did the females feather out faster? And was there a size difference fairly early on?

 

[Pigeony]

Ok I see, the colouring is the bigger indicator.

Did the females feather out faster? And was there a size difference fairly early on?

Yes, the females feathered out much faster for me. The male was very slow and a decent bit smaller

 

[Pigeony]

Pictures of the two week olds. As you can see, two don’t have the blue skin really at all. I do fear all of these might be cockerels as well.

In the first pic, the one on the left has a red speck coming through on the comb. The one on the right doesn’t but it’s a very dominant little chick. It is quite a bit slighter/smaller than the other though.

The two lighter skinned ones in the second pic aren’t blue skinned at all so I’m not sure how strong they are as actual mosaics (like the one with the bigger comb I got in my first hatch).

The one with the red comb I would strongly suspect male, the other is a wait-and-see, nothing screams male so far. Your two lighter chicks look so drastically different from my mosaics I'm not sure how helpful I can be with sexing them, but I don't see anything obvious.

 

[Lexxieas]

I do have a chick from the same breeder do you think my chick is a true mosaic

 

[Ilovechickens2525]

I do have a chick from the same breeder do you think my chick is a true mosaic

It looks like my ones that have ended up with blue skin, so I’d say yes.