Geeesh Tim! That Delawegger on top of the feeder, looks for all the world like some deranged and demented male hawk got in your flock and did everything
but what they're known for doing to chickens!
Keep track of that one, would you please, and post as soon as you know its gender. My money is on cockerel.
The trend, so far, with Del over Amer or EE, seems to be this: If they hatch looking like a pure Del, they end up being pullet. If they hatch out looking like your litle guy did, they seem to all be cockerels. I'd be very interesed to see what yours turns out to be.
This is by no means a fact as yet. Just an observation that a number of us with Delaweggers have made. I have had two such that started life looking like pure Del's but with the cheek puffs and beards of their EE mother. They were both pullets! Sadly, I lost one of the little girls just a couple of days before she started laying. Her sister lays a beautiful olive/bluish egg.
Talk to Kathy [aka kathyinmo] as it was from her that I received the trio of mother and two chicks. I seem to recall that Cyn [aka speckledhen] also produced one or two [maybe more?] with one of her EE girls and her beautiful Isaak. The girls started out with the full Delaware look as well.
If I had the time, money and facilities to do so, this is a crossing that I would love to persue all the way to recognition by the APA as a new breed! A bird that is as friendly as the Dels that lays a bluish/olive egg!?!?! What could be better!!!
