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Feathered legs? What happened there??? Crazy!I have to agree, that is one yummy tail on him!
I have two that I hatched (my hatch rates are really dismal) one of which is a roo, at about 8 weeks he has a bright red comb already. He also has blue/grey legs with feathered feet
I have one large looking possible hen that is 3 weeks younger. She is already larger than he is so I am pleased! I'll get pictures once they lose their ratty betwixt chick/juvenile feathering. She looks to orange/pumpkin coloured with white spots.
I'm re-posting this older post to show y'all a better set of pics of the roos/hens of the five week old chick batch . . .. I currently have about 50 chicks from this pen. Derek also got some eggs from this pen when my 'bator was full. The roos have been sold, pen is broke up, so whatever we get is "it" from this bloodline!
For those of you new to this thread, this is their DADDY, "Cheeto" a huge-bodied 1/2 Buff Rock roo who carried the gene for spots:
These big-bodied roos are being put in with my small but most colorful hens. Both of these roos carry the gene for spots and you can see a stray spotted feather tip here and there. It is hoped that when they are put in with these super-colorful hens, that hopefully some of the babies will be fully spotted from head to toe. The dads would help improve body shape and size, and the boys both have yellow legs, whereas all but one of the hens have either pink or mixed gray legs.
So these chicks would still be kind of small, because their dads are actually about 2/3rds Aloha and only about 1/3 "big chicken" which means the babies from this mix will be only about 1/6th "big chicken" and the rest little Aloha blood. But they should have better body type, with wider chests, and possibly yellow legs. If they end up improved and super colorful, that's still a step in the right direction!
Look at how stout the roos are compared to the hens:
The above photo also shows the itty-bitty white spots on the chest of #3. Can you see them? They are faint, but they are there.
I just set 30 (!!!) eggs from this pen last night. I'm SO hoping the eggs are fertile! But I'm worried since I don't see a lot of "action" happening in that pen.
Going to drive me crazy, waiting a week to candle these eggs for fertility! ARRRGH!