Silver-Laced Sebright crossed with Orpington?

[ClareScifi]

Wait until you see his tail. It has had a growth spurt. I will post a photo soon. I think it looks like a SL Sebring's (Bantie) tail!

 

[OSUman]

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Some people say that EEs look like that LOL.

 

[ClareScifi]

Oh, really, OSUMan? That is interesting to learn. I did not know that. There are some EEs where he came from, but I didn't think there were any EE roosters there. But maybe???

You mean the EEs tend to have Raptor Type Beaks?

 

[stormylady]

Raptors don't mate with chickens, Raptors eat chickens so no worries with him being part Raptor.

 

[Tracydr]

It would be physically impossible for a Seabright rooster to fertilize a Large Orpington hen. I have an Old English Banty rooster and he can't even fertilize my smallest Sicilian Buttercup, Hamburg or Fayoumi.
Raptors don't cross with chickens, impossible.
Maybe the farmer had a rooster he didn't know about or the hens visited a neighbor rooster or wild rooster?

 

[ClareScifi]

Someone else claimed a certain cross was impossible, not ever having seen it from personal experience, but another chicken owner said that person was wrong, that he had had an "impossible" cross and knew it was possible.

I know that raptors don't typicallly mate with chickens. That was a joke.

But people in another chicken group, when I posted the Orpington/Bantie cross query said it is, indeed, possible.

 

[stormylady]

Maybe the farmer had a rooster he didn't know about or the hens visited a neighbor rooster or wild rooster?


This sounds like a viable option.

 

[ClareScifi]

This farm is in the middle of nowhere, and the nearest farm is over a mountain an hour away, so I doubt it. But it's fun to think up possible scenarios like these. :>)

This is the post I was telling you about, from a different thread:

Ducks and Banny hens wrote:

I don't have pictures but I have info. In case you're not good with genetics I will not get in to all that, but the result would be: Just like a Silver Laced Sebright (comb, feathers and everything) except: instead of white he would be covered in yellow, creamy laced feathers instead of white laced. Hope this helps in any way.

P.S. You can't cross a Sebright X standard Orpington. The size difference is astronomical and they can't breed. However Orpi bantams can be crossed with sebrights.


Another poster responded to the above with: Not true. My Sebright rooster, even though he's a hatchery bird, successfully mated my Australorp hen. I have the pictures of the cockerel to prove it.

My note: My bird does have some yellow creamy almost-laced-looking feathers. But it's his tail that now makes me highly suspect a Bantam father. I need to post the 10-week-old photo, Stormy, so you can see what you think of this theory. I will try to do so today.

 

[keesmom]

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Tim certainly is an expert on color genetics so I suspect there's another roo in the bunch.

 

[stormylady]

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Clare, there is a huge difference between a Australorp hen and a Orpington Hen, in terms of size, shape, and the amount of feathers that a tiny sebright would have to get through just to fertilize the eggs, might be a very slight possibility, but it is Extremely unlikely.

like keesmom said, Tim really seems to know his stuff and he says that he doesn't believe that a sebright fathered your chick.

We have feral chickens in the cities, and this is a farm, chances are there are other little farms around, or maybe someone had chickens a long time ago and some of them got loose and roamed around , bred and spread, and one Rooster found their farm?? That is a very real possibility. Chickens go missing all the time, some show up days or weeks later, where did the go?? Who knows. So anything is possible.