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[MEMama3]

http://maine.craigslist.org/for/4124639917.html

great deal! - $25 (rockland, me)
Partially eaten chicken only 5 days old. Two thigh pieces still intact. $25

 

[crazyaboutchickens]

I don't know if an albino chicken is possible....?
Cream Legbar - purebred albino rooster Chicken - $10 (Loomis)

Rare!!!! A true purebred albino cream legbar rooster. He is roughly 8 months old. As you can see he has the albino red eyes and lacks all pigment.

No pigment. .... really. .... red comb. ....

Exactly.

Albino chickens are VERY rare, and I doubt he is one, but the red comb could be because of blood vessels... Isn't that how combs are red anyways?

Yep, well how they should be... Pale or discolored combs usually means something is wrong and/or they are unhealthy... unless you get a black-skinned breed.

 

[Christabelle]

I know that Cream Legbars occasionally throw whites. I'm sure that is all he is. This insight has made me wonder if I know too much about chickens... Can you know too much? I don't even have cream legbars... Sigh.

 

[Phage]

My cream legbar rooster is white ( double recessive white) most of is babies are normal colored, but sometimes we get white chick as one of the hens carries white also. The white crested hens are spectacular.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

My cream legbar rooster is white ( double recessive white) most of is babies are normal colored, but sometimes we get white chick as one of the hens carries white also. The white crested hens are spectacular.

Hm.... maybe I'll go grab the guy...

He's definitely pretty.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

I don't know if an albino chicken is possible....?
Cream Legbar - purebred albino rooster Chicken - $10 (Loomis)

Rare!!!! A true purebred albino cream legbar rooster. He is roughly 8 months old. As you can see he has the albino red eyes and lacks all pigment.

No pigment. .... really. .... red comb. ....

Exactly.

Albino chickens are VERY rare, and I doubt he is one, but the red comb could be because of blood vessels... Isn't that how combs are red anyways?

Yep, well how they should be... Pale or discolored combs usually means something is wrong and/or they are unhealthy... unless you get a black-skinned breed.

Yeah, so an albino chicken will have pink legs (or white?), white feathers, white eyes & a red comb. So how would you tell if a chicken is truly albino, apart from having a black skinned breed suddenly producing a red combed, no color-producing bird?

 

[Angelicisi]

True albino chickens are very rare. Lack of pigment is all skin-hair-feathers including Combs. The red coloring may be pinking in the comb but not red as in a normal comb.

If left to their own with hens, hatch mates will peck at the red in the eyes of an albino sibling, hens may discard the eggs before hatch too, just knowing somethin is 'off'. Many of the albino chicks that did get noticed didn't live to laying age and if they were a prized breeding stock they'd be culled. As would the parent that throws that gene.
A member on one of theses BYC threads has an albino hen that's VERY close to being a TRUE albino and was about 3 months old in this pic. The bird has some color shading of buff peeking through on a few feathers but is a great example of almost albino.
This is Jenooni, a members picture

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Yeah, so an albino chicken will have pink legs (or white?), white feathers, white eyes & a red comb. So how would you tell if a chicken is truly albino, apart from having a black skinned breed suddenly producing a red combed, no color-producing bird?

 

[Sandstorm495]

http://maine.craigslist.org/for/4124639917.html

great deal! - $25 (rockland, me)
Partially eaten chicken only 5 days old. Two thigh pieces still intact. $25

Now that is a chicken worth getting

 

[Pyxis]

Flagged as 'best of' if anyone wonders why I flagged

 

[sgtmom52]

Make mine a Mai Tai!

http://york.craigslist.org/grd/4130555340.html

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I have a couple cocktail birds,grey ones, 40 dollars each and white ones 60 each. If interested feel free to contact me at *********