Such feathery feet, what is it?

[gritsar]

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And if she's a standard, she's gonna get ALOT bigger!
Mariposa, I agree yours is a cochin.

 

[MariposaMama]

Thank you all, Cochin was what I was guessing, too, but I'm still new to chicks and wasn't sure. Oldtime, what do you mean by self-blue? I'm not familiar with that term.

I noticed last night that one of the feathered-feet yellow ones has a comb that seems to be redder than most of the others, so if you're right I think I've just identified our first roo. I only ordered 12 pullets and there were 20 chicks in the box. I don't mind a few roos, but 8 roos to 12 hens would be too many, so I'm hoping not all the extras are roos. Think I'd better start checking combs.

 

[mikarod]

Self-blue. It's when you can breed two blue birds together and get blue chicks, I believe 100%.

Blue birds are usually made by crossing Splash and Blues, Blacks and Blues or Splash and Black birds. Hence, not "Self-Blue" because you won't always get 100% blue offspring from these crosses.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Self-blue is also called a lavender. It breeds true when bred to another lavender. It is a gene at a specific locus on the chromosone that is recessive.

It's rather unusual and folks usually go "ga-ga" over lavenders...me included. Some hatcheries offer "lavender" cochins but typically they are pet quality with feathering that is not up to APA standards for cochins as far as showing.

 

[cthrash1]

Some hatcheries(Ideal in particular) will add packing peanuts as warmers to your order if it is less than 1/4 box order. The first shipment I got from Ideal in March had 9 BR peanuts added to it, that order was a day late and all my babies were dead except one and the peanuts. They reshipped the next week and sent 9 RIR peanuts that time. Ended up giving all the peanuts away except Raoul my DDs BR that immediately took a liking to her.