yeye5
Songster
Thanks so much for sharing this info! My Ollie started out all dark brown. I saw all of the chicks (also including my Ernie, Bert and Taz, pictured a few pages ago). I worked at talking the hen's owner into leting me pick one more, with my eye on Ollie! And she (I think) came home about a week ago!Stella is a chipmunk Easter Egger. She's had those chipmunk markings since we got her at two days old. I have no idea if she is a mixed breed or not. I figured since I wasn't going to show them, it didn't matter. I just thought she was cute! Sioux is an Iowa Blue, which I gather not many people have or even have heard of. I love the pencil markings she is getting on her back and neck! She's so pretty. Trudy (Gertrude) is an Australorp. She's the only one that I am not sure is a pullet. Junebugga keeps telling me it's too early to tell, so I've been posting every week! She's probably so tired of me.
From dark brown Ollie developed markings and then in a couple of weeks showed the incredible plumage!
From your description of Stella having her colors from the start I doubt they have the same make up genetically. But I'll sure holler if I see an "Easter eggs"!