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[lualshannon]

Ohh, my! He is adorable, and beautiful, and deserves to have attitude : )

 

[fowlsessed]

Quote: Yes, I meant to say thank you and you're welcome, Lual.

 

[JShubin]

R.I.P. Black Snow & Black Hen

They were killed by my jack*** dog yesterday while I was at work. Black Snow was barely breathing when I got home and took his last breathe as I picked him up. He is remembered by his three sons that roam my yard still.

 

[Penny Hen]

My hen used to be sweet and nice. No she bites and attacks me. She has one spur, crows sometimes but its very pitiful, and doesnt lay but i know shes a hen. ,my roo tries to breed her. WHy do you think this is.?

It may be possible that she is a hermaphrodite. Or a chimera. This is what a chimera looks like in horses.

The brindle coat pattern is occassionally caused by a rare genetic occurence called chimerism. Dunbar's Gold, pictured at left, is an example of this odd phenomonon. In a nutshell, a chimeric horse develops when two fraternal (non-identical) twins fuse into one embryo in utero. Dunbar's Gold, therefore, has two sets of DNA, resulting in his brindled coat. For more information about his fascinating story, check out this article published in the February 2006 American Quarter Horse Journal:

Here is another chimera horse:


For those that don't know the black butt and the chestnut front can't express simultaneously any other way except by the fusing of fraternal twin zygotes.

Here is what a cardinal looks like:
Now this is a definite male/female split. The horses that I have come across seem to have been male or female. The original article that I read on this bird said that he lived to himself neither hanging with the males or female cardinals and never took a mate.



And in a lobster:


Notice that in the bird and lobster the fusion line is right down the middle but in the horses (mammal) it is more stirred up. Since your bird has only one spur I am betting that it is a chimeara. and that the feather pattern is not so evident because the male and female versions are not too different. She was probably a double yolk egg that fused into one bird.


Check out this thread and read what Oly has to say about behavior modification in roosters (or other chickens)
My Beloved Roo Is Becoming A Problem...despite all attempts to turn him around.

 

[sdm111]

pic from today

 

[sdm111]

another

 

[chickletteSarge]

pic from today

what color is he? I like the golden hackle and slate breast! can we see more?

 

[sdm111]

only other pic he's different shades of blue with gold hackles and mahogany shoulders

 

[chickletteSarge]

did you breed him yourself? the coloration he has is what I am looking to achieve in a longtail game project I have started! love his colors! how is his attitude?

 

[sdm111]

Got him as a chick. The miner blues can come any color and any pattern you can hatch from pyles to solid color to whatever all from the same parents. And he's the best blue stag I own far now but he's only about 6 mo. Old