The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[Aricawithtwins]

@NatJ thank you for answering and helping me learn new things.

 

[3KillerBs]

@nicalandia

I failed miserably in choosing only Australorp eggs for my July 3rd hatch and have these oddballs. Can you help me figure out what was going on?

Possible males are a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

The only Pea-combed female was a Light Brahma.

The Rose-combed females are a Dominique and 4 Lavender Orpington x Silver-Laced Wyandottes.

The feather-footed females are 2 French Cuckoo Marans, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Silver-Laced Cochin, and 1 Black Langshan.

#1, When he was a couple weeks old and developed these luxuriant feathered feet I assumed that he was 1/2 Cochin. Then he developed this comb and that gold/buff(?) leakage. He's massive, the largest bird in the hatch with the biggest feet.

#2, With the sparse foot feathers I figured he was 1/2 or full Langshan. But he's got the same weird comb. In the last couple weeks the silver leakage showed up.

I appreciate the help figuring these guys out. They're probably future chicken dinners, but I'd still like to know what they are.

 

[nicalandia]

@nicalandia

I failed miserably in choosing only Australorp eggs for my July 3rd hatch and have these oddballs. Can you help me figure out what was going on?

Possible males are a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

The only Pea-combed female was a Light Brahma.

The Rose-combed females are a Dominique and 4 Lavender Orpington x Silver-Laced Wyandottes.

The feather-footed females are 2 French Cuckoo Marans, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Silver-Laced Cochin, and 1 Black Langshan.

#1, When he was a couple weeks old and developed these luxuriant feathered feet I assumed that he was 1/2 Cochin. Then he developed this comb and that gold/buff(?) leakage. He's massive, the largest bird in the hatch with the biggest feet.


#2, With the sparse foot feathers I figured he was 1/2 or full Langshan. But he's got the same weird comb. In the last couple weeks the silver leakage showed up.

I appreciate the help figuring these guys out. They're probably future chicken dinners, but I'd still like to know what they are.

If your only source of Pea Comb is that Brahma, then she is the dame of both birds.

Blue Australorp is the sire of the both chicks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@nicalandia

I failed miserably in choosing only Australorp eggs for my July 3rd hatch and have these oddballs. Can you help me figure out what was going on?

Possible males are a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

The only Pea-combed female was a Light Brahma.

The Rose-combed females are a Dominique and 4 Lavender Orpington x Silver-Laced Wyandottes.

The feather-footed females are 2 French Cuckoo Marans, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Silver-Laced Cochin, and 1 Black Langshan.

#1, When he was a couple weeks old and developed these luxuriant feathered feet I assumed that he was 1/2 Cochin. Then he developed this comb and that gold/buff(?) leakage. He's massive, the largest bird in the hatch with the biggest feet.

#2, With the sparse foot feathers I figured he was 1/2 or full Langshan. But he's got the same weird comb. In the last couple weeks the silver leakage showed up.

I appreciate the help figuring these guys out. They're probably future chicken dinners, but I'd still like to know what they are.

Thinking the Brahma has to be the father, the silver in the neck is a good clue, since light Brahmas are Silver Columbian.
Do any of your birds carry gold, or Autosomal Red? Only thing I can think what's going on in the shoulders.

 

[nicalandia]

Thinking the Brahma has to be the father

Only two possible Sires(Australorp and Langshan) Only one Pea Comb Dame(Brahma)

My take is that the Blue Australorp is the Sire of both Chicks and the Dame is the Brahma Hen

 

[3KillerBs]

If your only source of Pea Comb is that Brahma, then she is the dame of both birds.

Blue Australorp is the sire of the both chicks.

How does one have silver and the other gold? That's part of what's baffling me.

I'm also confused about the luxuriant foot feathers on the blue one and the extremely sparse feathers on the black one.

Do any of your birds carry gold, or Autosomal Red? Only thing I can think what's going on in the shoulders.

The only visibly red/gold bird I have is an OE who hatched on Easter and hasn't laid yet (pelvic check still at one finger last Friday).

When I had a male with gold leakage in an earlier hatch, @nicalandia told me that it had come from the Lavender Orpington x SLW hens.

Thinking the Brahma has to be the father,

My only Brahma was female. The males at the time were a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

 

[nicalandia]

How does one have silver and the other gold? That's part of what's baffling me.

I'm also confused about the luxuriant foot feathers on the blue one and the extremely sparse feathers on the black one.

Both are golden(S/s+), the blue one shows more orange on the shoulders, if he was s+/s+ he would have been Red Shouldered instead. But in any event Australorps can be s+/s+, S/S or S/s+ you might never know since they are All Black.(Yours could be S/s+ indeed)

Foot feathering on F1s can always range from sparsely to abundant.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Only two possible Sires(Australorp and Langshan) Only one Pea Comb Dame(Brahma)

My take is that the Blue Australorp is the Sire of both Chicks and the Dame is the Brahma Hen

I read Female, as Male by accident. Still waking up. I slept in.

 

[3KillerBs]

But in any event Australorps can be s+/s+, S/S or S/s+ you might never know since they are All Black...

I didn't know this. Thanks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

How does one have silver and the other gold? That's part of what's baffling me.

I'm also confused about the luxuriant foot feathers on the blue one and the extremely sparse feathers on the black one.



The only visibly red/gold bird I have is an OE who hatched on Easter and hasn't laid yet (pelvic check still at one finger last Friday).

When I had a male with gold leakage in an earlier hatch, @nicalandia told me that it had come from the Lavender Orpington x SLW hens.



My only Brahma was female. The males at the time were a Black Langshan and a Blue Australorp.

I read Female, as Male by accident. Still waking up. I slept in.