Newest feather baby cross!

[Rennifer]

There are some fun markings coming in on my latest cross baby and I feel like sharing. Back story... I started my flock with some black silkie chicks (all hens) but I wanted to hatch so I snagged a couple of non HOA approved free old English roos. Voila! My own mini chicken crossing experiments. I ended up with a variety of colorations and kept a few hens over a couple of years. I was raising Cotournix quail and I ended up with an extra male, so he went into his own separate cage (Stud). He wasn't happy about being alone and I had a cross chicken hen (Dawn) thatthat ne some extra tlc so I put them together. I didn't get any eggs from Dawn for almost a month since she had gone broody. And then one day I found an egg! I figured it was infertile so I put it in the food pile, but when I cracked it, it was fertile! I felt horrible and excited all at once. Luckily, the next day there was another egg! And so into the incubator went her eggs with a special D to mark them. I only got 4 before the bomb cyclone hit. Out of those 4, 3 were fertile but only one made it to hatch. I'm having a hard time hatching this year, besides my new little one! Here's some pics of him (just assuming so I don't get my hopes up)! He has the sounds of a quail, just a little lower! He's a lovely little addition to our cross posse and once he gets all of his full feathers I'll add more pics!

 

[GirlsMommy18]

I was under the impression that only a female quail under a rooster would produce viable offspring, but you've done it in reverse? That's pretty cool!

 

[Rennifer]

I was under the impression that only a female quail under a rooster would produce viable offspring, but you've done it in reverse? That's pretty cool!

She escaped her cage a couple of weeks ago when my toddler figured out the latch but she's been separated from my chicken roo for 2 weeks now so I'm going to see if I can hatch some more. It's funny because even though she's a bantam she's still twice his size but I've seen it happen so here's to more successful adorable hatchlings!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Wow! I had no idea that this was possible!

 

[Rennifer]

Wow! I had no idea that this was possible!

I didn't either lol that's why I cracked the first egg!

 

[drumstick diva]

keep us posted

 

[Rennifer]

A couple recent pics of little guy He has 4 siblings in the incubator and I hope they end up with the same markings