Silkie and project egg Hatch-A-Long

[NagemTX]

Aphrodite is confusing me. The down is yellow with a bit of brown on its lower back, while the wings are dark. I know I don't have any dominant whites in the parent flock. Why in the world would the down be yellow if the feathers is dark? *Sigh* so many genetic mysteries when you hatch mixed breed chicks...

Humm, strange. Mottled? And is it the lighting or are the feathers dark blue?

 

[Cloverr39]

I'm trying to catch up all the treads but, I don't see Hermes any where. Don't remember the number

Hermes didn't hatch, sorry. I'm not sure what went wrong.

 

[Cloverr39]

Humm, strange. Mottled? And is it the lighting or are the feathers dark blue?

They do look like an odd blueish-brown color. I did have a blue and a blue cuckoo silkie in the pen.
As far as I'm aware, my birds don't carry the mottling gene.

 

[NagemTX]

They do look like an odd blueish-brown color. I did have a blue and a blue cuckoo silkie in the pen.
As far as I'm aware, my birds don't carry the mottling gene.

It's going to be intresting watching it feathers in!

 

[Antiocheggers]

Hermes didn't hatch, sorry. I'm not sure what went wrong.

Oh so sad but I understand now that I had a hatch.

 

[Cloverr39]

I made the growing up thread! I'll post the 1 week old photos soon.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/clovers-2024-chicks.1613912/

 

[gwells1980]

Aphrodite is confusing me. The down is yellow with a bit of brown on its lower back, while the wings are dark. I know I don't have any dominant whites in the parent flock. Why in the world would the down be yellow if the feathers is dark? *Sigh* so many genetic mysteries when you hatch mixed breed chicks...

Because Aphrodite is awesome Can we see an updated photo of her?

 

[gwells1980]

Aphrodite is going to be the 1st reverse Lipizzan chicken ever! Born white, turns black as it gets older!

 

[CosmosEclipse]

S1 @Debbie292d
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6 @KathiQuacks Dionysus
S7 @HappyHippyChick Zeus
S8
S9
S10
S11
S12
S13
S14 @calicocows Faun
S15
S16
S17
S18
S19
S20 @Nero70002 Apollo
S21
S22
P23 @NagemTX Azaelean/Azaelon
P24 @Bella the Chicken Lover
P25 @GreenJay Abigail
P26 @Nero70002 Alouette
P27 @Obsessed With Silkies Artemis
P28 @Nero70002 Ares
P29
P30 @gwells1980 Aphrodite
P31

S - Silkies
P - Project chicks

P23 is the only egg from my isabel brahma bantam, Zombie.
P24 is the only confirmed egg from my frizzled bantam cochin (there may be more from her).

If this is still open, P9 as Calypso if female, Faun if male.

 

[CosmosEclipse]

If this is still open, P9 as Calypso if female, Faun if male.

(Oop, we already have Faun. Atticus, then.)