Rumpless, black skin, 5 toes, kinda bearded mix...but with what???

[ZooMummzy]

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They do have black skin and 5 toes so definitely some silkie going on there.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Oh my goodness – wait till you see this…………………..rummages around, throwing things over her shoulder, pushing items under the couch………….HA HA found them.

Pictures were taken 4.23.10 – this chick is from my own cross APA Orp over hatchery Dels. She is rumples and after much searching and reading have found she is an incubation oops. She has no tail bone and no utopia gland (believe that is the spelling – the oil gland above the tail) – the info I found had a chart that showed those hatched with no gland were incubation ooops.

 

[High Roost Ranch]

I was going to guess favorelle (for the bearding), silkie (the black skin-toes), rumpless araucana (for the rumpless) mix??? Who knows! They are different and cool looking though.

 

[Redcatcher]

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Even if they were picked, you would still see the parsin's nose.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Wow! So they could be "oopses" lol. That is what their ends look like. I haven't been able to get a photo of it because they do not like to be messed with so it's all I can do to just pick them up and give them a look over. Never had hand raised birds like these

Well, I will definitely go with the oops factor because she doesn't have any rumpless type birds in her flock or breeding pen. Very interesting stuff, thank you!

 

[pamperedpoultry]

WOW! not sure where the rumpless came from..... Were they labeled frizz or sizz??? if sizz they came from my sizzle pen which is cochins and silkie crosses.. they have the coloring of one of my roo's

heres some of my smooth hens but their not rumpless??? maybe they'll pick up in the "hindend area" as they grow...

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Hmmmm I thought Frizzle but you know, they could have been Sizzle.

The coloring of your roo explains a lot of my other colors

They do kinda resemble the chickens in these photos...so maybe? I'll keep an eye on their rumps but I really thought they would have something by now? Doesn't matter, I love them, just thought it would be fun to maybe know why!



Here is my frizzle from you (I'm guessing a boy but hoping girl)

And here is my blue/lemon/copper Cochin from you.

You have wonderful birds btw

and your Seramas? OMG! 3 hatched, all girls. How lucky can I be?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Even if they were picked, you would still see the parsin's nose.

What on earth is that? Are you referring to the coccyx bones or the uropygial gland?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Even if they were picked, you would still see the parsin's nose.

What on earth is that? Are you referring to the coccyx bones or the uropygial gland?

AH HA - that is it - not utopia gland

- uropygial gland

Parson's nose (or pope's nose) is what the tail bone (pygostyle) is sometimes called.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Thank you...because I was completely lost on that.

So there is definitely no tail and no coccyx bones that may form the tail? The lack of the coccyx bones means true rumplessness. I've seen it pop up in Leghorns.

I've never even considered that it looks like a nose...how weird!