My new little ones! - Wheaten Penedesencas

[jeremy]

I picked up 5 babies today that mediazeal hatched for me, Wheaten Penedesencas. They came from gorgeous dark eggs, I'll be using the pullets as the mothers of my Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Olive Egger project. They'll be bred with my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana roo next spring when they all reach maturity. I wanted to share some pictures of the gorgeous little ones! Thanks again to medizeal for the pictures!

These two hatched first, last week.

And these chicks just hatched yesterday!

These are the eggs they hatched from, I think they're AMAZING!

This is Claude, the cockerel that they'll eventually be paired with- he still has a lot of growing to do too.

Thanks for looking everyone, as much as I love seeing them at this age I can wait for these to reach POL, I want to start my project right now!!

 

[NaomiSarah]

AAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!! I love them! And the eggs are gorgeous, looks like milk chocolate!!!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

Cool! I have a young Wheaten Marans cockerel that I am giving to a friend with Wheaten Ameraucanas so we can make some Wheaten Olive Eggers too! Maybe we'll have to trade some eggs and make and f2 cross!

 

[jeremy]

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That would be too cool! I'm really excited about this potential project, I love colored egg layers. That and I think Wheaten birds are beautiful. I thought about using Wheaten Marans but I wanted to try another dark egg layer and see how the cross would work out. Marans seem to be everywhere nowadays. I believe a moderator here on the forum, Wynette, has used Penes for an Olive Egger cross resulting in some beautiful birds.

 

[sloallie10]

CUTE.
Also, what set up did you do or how did you take your pictures?

 

[jeremy]

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I think the photography is great, however I didn't take the pictures! The person I bought them from, medizeal here on BYC, shot the photos and sent them to me.

 

[sloallie10]

oh ok, thanks anyways

 

[jeremy]

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I'm sure she wouldn't mind a PM asking about her photography.

 

[noodleroo]

I never get tired of looking at these sweet little pictures! Your babies are so cute; I don't know much about breeding but I do enjoy learing. Thanks for posting....

 

[jeremy]

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No problem! I'm having to keep myself from checking on them every 5 minutes in the brooder, it's so much harder not to just watch them in real life!