Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[WaveyCreekChickens]

Chip and Silvana restin.

 

[Cathy Roberts]

Sergeant is gorgeous!

 

[Sarahs Hens]

This is Amelia, my favorite chicken who I just lost today to cancer . She was so sweet, curious and adventurous. She was at the bottom of the pecking order but didn’t seem to care, perfectly content to venture off on her own and into the neighbors flower beds. She just *had* to be in my feet anytime I was in the yard, convinced that whatever was in my hands was absolutely a treat for her. I’m going to miss her

 

[Egger4me]

T-Rex she was name by one of the grandson we thought she was a rooster. She a Isbar lays green eggs.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The mail rooster or the Fuller Brush rooster came by and bred some of your hens?

I wonder if black skin is recessive. I have a black Blue Ameraucana purchased from Meyer. 25% of Blue x Blue are expected to be black, 25% splash, 50% blue.

But ZERO % should have 5 toes per foot like Nyx has. Otherwise she looks like an Ameraucana and does lay very blue eggs. Meyer has some bad genes in their Ameraucana flock and they came out in Nyx. Perhaps your black skinned Australorp cross is the same?

Black skin isn’t recessive. Nyx is a favaucana, some of them lay blue eggs.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Curious, so only the skin on her face is black, not the rest of her body? We need someone well versed in chicken genetics here!

I agree that it’s gypsy face

 

[Jalloway]

Little bitty baby, so fresh and full of life

 

[janiedoe]

This is Amelia, my favorite chicken who I just lost today to cancer . She was so sweet, curious and adventurous. She was at the bottom of the pecking order but didn’t seem to care, perfectly content to venture off on her own and into the neighbors flower beds. She just *had* to be in my feet anytime I was in the yard, convinced that whatever was in my hands was absolutely a treat for her. I’m going to miss her

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I'm very sorry for your loss.

 

[alinas2010]

No need to wait for mom to pass the treats out

 

[ReluctantChickenOwner]

I generally look for cockerel specific feathering and comb and waffle development. I had a Wyandotte pullet in the bunch (not in the photo) so it was easy to tell the difference between the two.

Here are a couple photos.

View attachment 3241090 Very early on, Zoro’s comb was bigger and more red than the pullet’s.
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You can see the pullet in the top right corner of the photo has very little comb or wattle development. (I had two pullets, but I gave one away)

Hopefully this helped.