Name the eggs! Choose your baby to root for!

[ElfenLied89]

He can perform with a mini kithara and a mini pink rhinestone suit...and a mini beard

Elvis?!

 

[tlcmurphy]

Posey is gorgeous. Their name doesn't do them justice. They need a majestic name or something

Is Posey a Silkie too? Just with ALL the feathers?

 

[fluffycrow]

It's not like I can get rid of her anyways. She is family now. Even if my kid said he didn't want her, I am pretty sure yall would filet me.

This is some neat information. I kinda want to breed them. If it's a female then she will get to mingle with Snape (my black Australorp roo). If Dolly happens to be a boy, maybe mix them with my light brahma hen?

Well, we ARE chicken keepers, so I think scrambling would be more realistic. I know very basic stuff when it comes to colour genes, so I won't even go there...if she's a she, this is what you'll get in the offspring. 5 toes are dominant. If she's heterozygous (one copy if the gene), the same principle applies for the toes as for the NN. 50% non-carriers (so basically won't express or carty the gene), 50% heterozygous carriers. Most of the chicks will have little crests. All would be normal feathered, but they'd all carty the silkied feather gene (if Dolly Parton has silkie feathering). Leg feathers will not be as intense as they are in Dolly Parton. If Dolly Parton is Dude Parton, and you breed him to the light brahma, the leg feathers will be thick, just like in their parents. Again, 100% silkied feathering carriers. Petite crests for most of them. 50% heterozygous NNs, 50% non-carriers. Same for the five toes. Of course, one chick can have one, two, or three of all the "extra" genes mentioned above. Oh and I forgot to mention this at the top. If she's homozygous for 5 toes, all her/his babies will have 5 toes, but they'll be heterozygous for it, since both light brahma and Australorps don't have 5 toes. Now about the comb. Some silkies have been popping up with straight combs. If she has a straight comb, crossing her to a straight combed bird will result in straight combed chicks. I know, boring. If you cross her to a brahma, you'll get 100% heterozygous pea combed birds. Think of it as a more messy and enlarged pea comb. If she has a walnut comb, my knowledge falls short. I *believe* crossing her with a brahma would produce 50% pea combed offspring and 50% walnut comb, but I could be VERY wrong. Take everything you read with a grain of salt, I'm by no way shape or form an expert. I'm also a super confusing writer

 

[fluffycrow]

Elvis?!

Did I mention hair gel? I think not!

 

[ElfenLied89]

Did I mention hair gel? I think not!

Imagine if Elvis and Dolly had a love child somehow.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Ummm...is this a beard on Charlene? Or is this just normal dried baby fluff? It's dry but looks wet. (Like if she had styled it with hair gel type wet looking)

 

[fluffycrow]

Imagine if Elvis and Dolly had a love child somehow.

That child would have the hair volume we all seek

 

[fluffycrow]

Ummm...is this a beard on Charlene? Or is this just normal dried baby fluff? It's dry but looks wet. (Like if she had styled it with hair gel type wet looking)

She looks like an old grandpa! I think it's an extra poofy beard. Could be the baby feathers getting molted out for the next set, but I've never had bearded birds, so I don't know at what age they molt their beards

 

[ElfenLied89]

She looks like an old grandpa! I think it's an extra poofy beard. Could be the baby feathers getting molted out for the next set, but I've never had bearded birds, so I don't know at what age they molt their beards

I had Salmon Faverolles in my first chicken group. They were about a week old when we got them. Now I need to look back and see if they had baby beard.

That's the only beard experience I really have.

 

[tlcmurphy]

When you have a free moment (mine didn’t occur until I sent my youngest to college in August), can you post a pic of Jolene please? I’m guessing she’s one of the blonde and black ones