@LynnaePB you always put so much into your posts back to us! Thank you so much for that extra time and effort! I'm not sure I will ever understand much less grasp the genetics stuff...but I sure admire you that do!
Would love to see some of YOUR pretty babies when you get time! Do you still have your house babies as well? I remember when I had the lil baby with the slipped tendon we had talked bout your house baby! Just wondered how they were.
Oh thank you! I grabbed some pictures of some of my youngsters today and am happy to share.
Little Stumpy eventually went outside with a pullet group. I feel conflicted when it comes to him and kind of go back and forth on if putting him down or not is kinder. His growth is clearly stunted but he tries so hard. He can get around well enough to get to the food and water without issues but keeping him clean is a challenge since he pretty much just scoots around. I couldn't tell for ages what sex he was but he finally got streamers so I'm pretty sure he is a he.
Here he is resting by the feeder (excuse the egg, the younger girls tend to lay in odd places).
Here are my two grow outs with the best spots. The older one is already laying and the younger one is quite a bit younger and just starting to fill in. They have the same dad who seems to throw some nice spots.
Here are a couple of my favorite older cockerels. Funny enough they both are not anywhere near good quality when it comes to pigment, comb type, and color but I can't help loving their type and floof the little fluffballs.
This picture makes this paint boy look like he is more white than in reality....the second picture with the flash shows how he has tons of khaki off color. (Excuse his very dirty beard).
This guy is a sort of gray/silver partridge but with tons of red leakage......no wonder I'm having so much trouble with my paint boys off color when a boy with that much red is popping out of the paint pen.
Here are some of my generation 1 splash calico project babies.
The first and oldest I posted recently but the picture was not up to date.
Not at all calico like at this point but the hackles are getting some gold/orange color in. Being so young still I'm hopeful more will continue to come in.
And the two younger siblings
Here are the little project mille split satins. They are starting to fill in but have a ways to go yet.
The boys
The girls
My little surprise mauve girl (surprised my breeder friend who hatched her too, mom was a gray and dad recessive white.....definitely was not expecting dad to carry chocolate genes).
And to her left my mottled boy who is sadly losing a lot of his white in his crest. More bits of white have started showing elsewhere so it'll be fun to see where his color ends up (I'm not expecting a lot of white but I hope enough so he actually looks somewhat mottled and not just completely black).
And lastly my two most recent additions hatched yesterday evening and today. These two are out of my red frizzle satin girl. I've got more on the way from her and I can't wait to see who inherits moms frizzle gene.
The lighter little munchkin tried coming out of the thin end of the egg and got stuck in a zip. His/her little comb area got a bit scuffed and one leg was awkwardly positioned and is still held a little further forward than the other but the baby is strong and gets around well so I think he/she will be just fine.
My Lil Ms Puff Meister laid her first egg yesterday at 23 weeks of age. I'm so tickled.. Here's 3 generations of eggs side by side.. Grandma, Mother, and Puff - daughter/granddaughter.
Top left - Muffins: Grandmother, Top right Turtle Dove: Daughter of Muffins, Lower egg: Puff Meister, Daughter of Turtle Dove by General Lee.
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Muffins:
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Turtle Dove
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Puff Meister now in with dad (General Lee) to solidify the partridge and add more fluff
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Aww I just love seeing the different generations! They are all so beautiful!
