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I'm sure everybody has mutts, "experiments", hatchery/production-type, or flawed purebred chickens. Sometimes even though a chicken is completely screwy compared to the Standard of Perfection, their "off" markings or features are really awesome looking! I think chicken genetics are very interesting, and I have hatched 4 chicks so far that are complete mutts. Don't worry, I don't ever plan on selling my mutts or passing them off as something else; all of the pullets I hatch will join my free-ranging flock and roosters go to freezer camp. I also have chickens from hatcheries or that just act silly.
I know everybody else probably has Silkie or Polish mixes with wacky combs or crests, but here are some of my imperfect chickens. Please post yours, too!
Bantam birchen Cochin Decima. She has a (incubator hatched) 10 week old daughter named Pecan whose father is a LF Production/Rhode Island Red. I do not have any photos of Pecan yet, but she is almost solid black with the same markings as Decima only in red (black patterned red (incomplete) quail according to the chicken calculator)
Peanut, 10 month old hatchery Buff Brahma. I LOVE this picture!
Some of the chickens eating.
Beans and Rice, two EE mixes I hatched from eggs that I bought from a local person who was selling them for $2 eating. The people said that they had Jersey Giants, RSLs, and EEs. Beans hatched from a blue EE egg (not green-blue but actually Ameraucana blue, though I doubt Beans' mom was a real/pure Ameraucana.), but his single comb suggests that his father was one of the other breeds, most likely RSL judging by his color. Rice hatched from a medium sized brown egg but has a pea comb, so her mother was probably a RSL and her father an EE. Beans is bearded/muffed, and I love the colors on both of them.
Tallulah the alpha rooster. He tends to attack strangers (not me) and my sister wants to eat him. But he is very good with the lady chickens (he is, obviously, protective) and I have had 100% fertility with all of the eggs I've incubated, so he gets to stay. If you can't tell, he is a production/RIR. I got him at TSC last April.
Decima, Stella the BSL, and Athena and Minerva the Dominiques. Both Decima and my blue bantam cochin, Nona, do this.
Peanut again with Stella and Tallulah in the background (and their epic new pop door).
Nona the blue bantam cochin and her 10 week old daughter, Morta. Morta's father is Tallulah.
I have some other photos here; http://fleabuskitty.deviantart.com/gallery/33893503
I know everybody else probably has Silkie or Polish mixes with wacky combs or crests, but here are some of my imperfect chickens. Please post yours, too!
Bantam birchen Cochin Decima. She has a (incubator hatched) 10 week old daughter named Pecan whose father is a LF Production/Rhode Island Red. I do not have any photos of Pecan yet, but she is almost solid black with the same markings as Decima only in red (black patterned red (incomplete) quail according to the chicken calculator)
Peanut, 10 month old hatchery Buff Brahma. I LOVE this picture!
Some of the chickens eating.
Beans and Rice, two EE mixes I hatched from eggs that I bought from a local person who was selling them for $2 eating. The people said that they had Jersey Giants, RSLs, and EEs. Beans hatched from a blue EE egg (not green-blue but actually Ameraucana blue, though I doubt Beans' mom was a real/pure Ameraucana.), but his single comb suggests that his father was one of the other breeds, most likely RSL judging by his color. Rice hatched from a medium sized brown egg but has a pea comb, so her mother was probably a RSL and her father an EE. Beans is bearded/muffed, and I love the colors on both of them.
Tallulah the alpha rooster. He tends to attack strangers (not me) and my sister wants to eat him. But he is very good with the lady chickens (he is, obviously, protective) and I have had 100% fertility with all of the eggs I've incubated, so he gets to stay. If you can't tell, he is a production/RIR. I got him at TSC last April.
Decima, Stella the BSL, and Athena and Minerva the Dominiques. Both Decima and my blue bantam cochin, Nona, do this.
Peanut again with Stella and Tallulah in the background (and their epic new pop door).
Nona the blue bantam cochin and her 10 week old daughter, Morta. Morta's father is Tallulah.
I have some other photos here; http://fleabuskitty.deviantart.com/gallery/33893503
