Show Off Your Funky Chicken Colors, & Patterns??!!!!🐓😋

[MysteryChicken]

Sorry about the horrible image quality, this tablet doesn't take pictures very well. Fluffball, the overwhelmed chicken mama of twelve chicks.

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She's usually quite fat, but she's been giving most of her food to her chicks. Darn chicken.
I wish I could find a rooster like her so I could breed her. She used to lay six beautiful tan eggs a week. Earlier this year, at four years old, she laid five eggs a week.
I've always loved the black dots on her hackles.

She looks like a poor quality buff Orpington. I can see alot of Wheaten. Wheaten is one of my favorite colors.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Here's Maran my big baby.
He's a Split Sex-linked Albino.
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What makes you think he’s split albino? He looks like a normal heterozygous dominant white with some leakage.

 

[MysteryChicken]

What makes you think he’s split albino? He looks like a normal heterozygous dominant white with some leakage.

I actually confirmed this by breeding him. He produced 2 sex-linked albino females, & 1 Wheaten Male. So I know he's not black Copper, but Wheaten based.

I sold the pullets, & waiting for someone to pick up their brother.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Popcorn, a buff mottled serama x Mille fleur d’uccle.

 

[MysteryChicken]

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Popcorn, a buff mottled serama x Mille fleur d’uccle.

Lovely colouring.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I actually confirmed this by breeding him. He produced 2 sex-linked albino females, & 1 Wheaten Male. So I know he's not black Copper, but Wheaten based.
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Ok, but I still don’t see why you think he has albino. What makes you think those chicks are albino?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Ok, but I still don’t see why you think he has albino. What makes you think those chicks are albino?

Very pink skin, takes over the black of silkie skin. Leaves only dark skin spots.
Sex-linked albino is also an incomplete albino since it doesn't fully take over eye color nor feather color.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I gotta go.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Very pink skin, takes over the black of silkie skin. Leaves only dark skin spots.
Sex-linked albino is also an incomplete albino since it doesn't fully take over eye color nor feather color.

I see. I do think it’s possible that he’s an albino split, and his offspring are albino. However, it’s extremely unlikely. Silkies, especially hatchery quality ones, have been known to have offspring which don’t inherit their melanistic skin. Your only evidence for them being albinos is that they have pinker skin, which I would think is very hard to judge. The much more logical explanation is that he’s dominant white and his offspring are either dominant white or silver, or even that they aren’t his offspring.
When I’m trying to figure out what breed a chicken is, or even what breeds might be in a mix, I focus a lot on what’s most likely. For instance, I could say Popcorn is a Easter egger mix. It is possible that she’s an Easter egger mix, but it is extremely improbable. For one, she’s a bantam (and a small one at that) and bantam EEs aren’t too common. She also only shares one trait with an EE; her beard. So I could say she’s an EE mix, but it wouldn’t make any sense.

 

[Chickeng1rl567]

Here is my hen Graycie, we aren’t sure what breed she is but she has some unique feathers