mystery bird??

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Ok so should it lighten over time?

 

[buttercup95]

Yeah I just sorted through like a hundred pics of sebrights and the pullets seem to have pointed hackle feathers too. That sort of bums me out I think they're very pretty but I'm not a fan of twiggy chickens lol I just prefer more hardy birds and these seem so fragile. Who knows, if this hen withstands the winter I might look in to getting her a cockerel for a companion. I could always sell the babies I live in such a rural area

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Yeah. . . My 4h leader had 6 sebrights and she just got rid of them because they would escape the pen and get into some of her purebred bantams and mess all the breeding up

 

[buttercup95]

I got this from Murray Mcmurray hatchery and in the same batch was what I was told a frizzle with two copies of the same gene. I guess this makes them more fragile so I might try a different hatchery but the other cochins and my RIRs are looking beautiful

 

[buttercup95]

Yeah. . . My 4h leader had 6 sebrights and she just got rid of them because they would escape the pen and get into some of her purebred bantams and mess all the breeding up

Haha I was just thinking the local 4h leader for poultry has bantams and I might give it to her! We don't get along anyhow so what's one slightly misleading gift.

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Frizzles are hard because then you have to deal with homozygous and heterozygous chromosome pairs and what not

 

[buttercup95]

Well what I did was I ordered a variety pack of cochins and I got a frizzle. I already have a bunch of cochins so I just wanted to get a few more and see if maybe I'd get some new breeds. I keep each breed separate I hate ending up with mixes because they don't turn out very pretty. I have two golden laced hens and I got three more in the variety pack and two of them look like roos so that means the hens will have to be separated. (that means I have to build yet another pen :/ ) My frizzle will just end up being a pet kept with my hens I reserve for their eggs alone. If it turns out he's a roo it won't matter because I'll eat the eggs anyways.

 

[buttercup95]

If I do keep her would she be okay on her own in a pen next to the hens? Maybe one a little more heavily fortified as I don't want to clip her wings again. (I will if I have to but with her breed they look much better with all their feathers in tact and my other hens don't need their wings clipped)

 

[Kelsie2290]

That color looks pretty typical of young hatchery Sebrights I've had (mostly McMurray), as they grow and get their adult feathers those do usually have a lot more lacing, some birds are a lot darker than others (white part of the lacing is not as wide or nonexistent). They are definitely on the flighty side, and tiny, yours even looks big to me for an 8 week old. Sebrights have rose combs which look really flat in young birds, yours looks like a girl to me also.

 

[buttercup95]

That color looks pretty typical of young hatchery Sebrights I've had (mostly McMurray), as they grow and get their adult feathers those do usually have a lot more lacing, some birds are a lot darker than others (white part of the lacing is not as wide or nonexistent). They are definitely on the flighty side, and tiny, yours even looks big to me for an 8 week old. Sebrights have rose combs which look really flat in young birds, yours looks like a girl to me also.

I got these from mcmurray so I'm super glad to hear that. It's not very elegant looking right now. Do you know how they do on their own? Since their flighty I can't keep it with my other hens and I like to keep my breeds separate