Never hatched one like this before!

[rosemarythyme]

That is awesome, and yes I'm wondering if it's a chimera. Definitely would love to see more photos as it develops!

 

[3KillerBs]

What a beautiful, little harlequin!

 

[M Brennen]

So a broody stole a nest under a Bush and presented me with 6 adorable mixed breed chicks. They are about a month old now and I realized today one of the chicks has one blond wing and one black wing. The down under the wings is also yellow on one side black on the other.
I have had chickens for 50 years and never gotten a non-symectrical feathering on a chicken.
Anybody ever seen anything like this?
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Pretty!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Nope, never seen anything that dramatic. Main reason I'm posting is so I get any updates.

Sometimes when you cross a chicken that has five toes with a chicken that has four toes you get a chick with a different number of toes on each foot. Sometimes when you get "leakage" you can get small differences in feathers from one side to the other but I've never seen that dramatic difference in feather color one side to the other.

I have seen patterns in juvenile feathers that don't show up in the adult plumage. Mottling for example, but that is just a few feathers in the juvies. I've seen some dramatic changes in feathers when a hen goes through an adult molt. It will be interesting to see that chick as it goes through juvenile and adult molts.

 

[Folly's place]

Years ago @Candy442 has a rooster named Two Tone who was very definitely different on each side. There may be photos somewhere here, but he was very different!
See how this one matures, and post more pictures!
Mary

 

[Candy442]

Yes, Two Tone was purchased at a feed store out of a pullet bin. Over the next weeks, she became very pretty and had very unusual pattern. Well, you usually don't talk about a pullet being pretty so guess what? Two Tone was a boy and a chimera! He was a sweet boy with two male halves. Sometimes they get one female, one male half! Here are photos of our boy, we lost him last year He was 7 years old. His baby picture, then both sides and a front view

 

[Folly's place]

He was a very neat bird!
Mary

 

[Littlelisa77]

Wow ! She will make for a beautiful hen cant wait to see updated pics !

 

[Sonya9]

Yes, Two Tone was purchased at a feed store out of a pullet bin. Over the next weeks, she became very pretty and had very unusual pattern. Well, you usually don't talk about a pullet being pretty so guess what? Two Tone was a boy and a chimera! He was a sweet boy with two male halves. Sometimes they get one female, one male half! Here are photos of our boy, we lost him last year He was 7 years old. His baby picture, then both sides and a front view

Wow he was beautiful!

I have read it can be a real problem for them if they are half male and half female, apparently when it happens to wild song birds the little guys become lonely because they can't attract partners (they don't look like or behave like either gender).

 

[FlocksOfFluff]

Beautiful bird! My swedish flowers have very slightly different patterns and colors on either side but nothing like that!