Ok, unsure. So even the downy feathers will be curled? One of them i think might have some curls, but it doesn't seem that obvious. Frizzled or not I still love them, but frizzled would be funny as heck. Did I mention my daughter named the trio Turkey, Raisin and Stuffing? LOL
LOL that's funny! A friend of my nephew's came for a visit once, he seemed to have a fun time. However when he went back home, he told his parents I shaved the necks on my chickens.....
The down is normal, the curl is on the feathers as they grow out on the body. Let's ask others for frizzle chick pictures! (I used to have them but not any more)
It can be really hard to see the white head spot on light colored chicks but if they are cuckoo, look closely at the rear part of their caps and see if you can make out a white spot.
barred/cuckoo are very easy to make- just breed any barred bird to a solid black chicken. could use your barred olive eggers with a black NN.
did the seller's lemon cuckoos have any black in their tails?
Hm, have buff laceds or anything red/buff with white tails? Those two chicks suspiciously sound like possible dominant white, especially the pullet. It's possible to get recessive white but that's a bit of a coincidence from two totally different lines.... if these throw whites/off whites from being bred with a black(especially a white with random colored flecks or black feathers), I'd say these two had a buff laced daddy...
Yes they had black in their tails.The pictures that were posted on ebay were of a cuckoo/barred columbian naked neck rooster.a cuckoo naked neck rooster,and a black tailed red naked neck rooster,the hens were black tailed buff,white,black,and lemon cuckoo.
I will post pics of all 4 of the birds from that mating.I understand what you are saying about the possibility of buff laced.I did have a buff laced polish rooster but he was never with the blue cuckoo olive egger hen and he was not a frizzle.The only frizzle was the golden laced/tolblunt split polish.And all 4 hatched from the olive green eggs.I was puzzled by this outcome. I did have a blue laced golden pullet from this mating,but it was sickly and did not make it.Here are the pics of the polish rooster and the four f1.
Ah yes with that info, it couldn't be buff laced roo... by the way that picture of pullet shows blue legs, usually a rather reliable sign of recessive white as dominant white tends to remove leg pigment leaving the legs either white or yellow. So it's down to a nice coincidence of both lines having recessive white...
as for the other bird, at a glance would have said cockerel due to the color however it might be a deep red based on silver pullet.
Yes they had black in their tails.The pictures that were posted on ebay were of a cuckoo/barred columbian naked neck rooster.a cuckoo naked neck rooster,and a black tailed red naked neck rooster,the hens were black tailed buff,white,black,and lemon cuckoo.
I will post pics of all 4 of the birds from that mating.I understand what you are saying about the possibility of buff laced.I did have a buff laced polish rooster but he was never with the blue cuckoo olive egger hen and he was not a frizzle.The only frizzle was the golden laced/tolblunt split polish.And all 4 hatched from the olive green eggs.I was puzzled by this outcome. I did have a blue laced golden pullet from this mating,but it was sickly and did not make it.Here are the pics of the polish rooster and the four f1.
Ah yes with that info, it couldn't be buff laced roo... by the way that picture of pullet shows blue legs, usually a rather reliable sign of recessive white as dominant white tends to remove leg pigment leaving the legs either white or yellow. So it's down to a nice coincidence of both lines having recessive white...
as for the other bird, at a glance would have said cockerel due to the color however it might be a deep red based on silver pullet.
Thanks Kev,why do you think that the brother to the pullet has white legs?I will have to check the leg color of the blue cuckoo olive egger hen.Could there also be dominant white in the line,and would that result in white birds?
