The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[ChicksnMore]

I'm struggling a bit more to see the mottling on #2, sorry. The wings still look more laced to me. This is a genuine question: could you circle where you see mottling on #2?

Mottling pics added above for chicks it shows on. All the parents are mottled and I've had normal colored chicks that it shows slow on. All the slow to show mottling end up looking like this and are the only hens that how black as well as white in the breast.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Probably not lacing. I was referring to the white bands that stretch along one side of the wing feather. Is that just meant to be called “mixed patterning”?

The white bands are common amongst Columbian patterned birds.

 

[ChicksnMore]

The two Millie looking roos are columbian right. I think this hen has Columbian or is this something else too?

 

[MysteryChicken]

The two Millie looking roos are columbian right. I think this hen has Columbian or is this something else too?View attachment 3411967

She maybe a poorly colored Columbian, or incomplete Columbian.
This roo, is Columbian but not silver.

 

[ChicksnMore]

She maybe a poorly colored Columbian, or incomplete Columbian.
This roo, is Columbian but not silver.View attachment 3411973

I just read some about silver and I don't see it anywhere in my birds, but these are the only possible parents. Those roos are the only roos the hens have ever been around. Is there anything besides silver that could create those colors?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I just read some about silver and I don't see it anywhere in my birds, but these are the only possible parents. Those roos are the only roos the hens have ever been around. Is there anything besides silver that could create those colors?

Silver Columbian can't be made with white. So, I don't think so.

Have any silver chickens, that could have snuck into the pen?

 

[ChicksnMore]

No silver chickens anywhere here. I have these guys, oegb spangled, crele, and Isabel, Yokohama's, ayam cemani, alohas and one pair of d'uccles. All have their own coops/runs and only one flock is let out at a time.

 

[Frank Fodera]

Hey Nicalandia,
How would you sex chicks from a Cream Legbar roo over a Barred Plymouth Rock hen? Would the resulting hens be olive eggars?

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[NatJ]

I just read some about silver and I don't see it anywhere in my birds, but these are the only possible parents. Those roos are the only roos the hens have ever been around. Is there anything besides silver that could create those colors?

The chicks sure look silver. Maybe a very-dilute gold? (Something like a very pale cream, perhaps).

But I'm wondering if the rooster could be a gold/silver split. It's not common to see some red/gold leakage on split males, although I'm not sure if it can be as much as your rooster is showing. If he is, that would definitely explain the silver that appears to be present in the chicks.

Edited to cross out a "not" that didn't belong.

 

[NatJ]

Hey Nicalandia,
How would you sex chicks from a Cream Legbar roo over a Barred Plymouth Rock hen? Would the resulting hens be olive eggars?

The daughers would lay green eggs.

"Olive" usually means green eggs that have an extra-dark layer of brown on them, while your cross is more likely to produce hens that lay green eggs but not extra-dark ones.

For color, the chicks will probably look like Barred Rock chicks (black with light headspots, growing feathers that are black with white barring.) You will probably be able to sex them the same way people sex Barred Rock chicks. Females will have one copy of the barring gene, so they get a smaller headspot, darker legs, and their feathers have more dark/less white. Males have two copies of the barring gene, which makes a stronger effect, so they get a larger headspot, lighter legs, and more white visible in their feathers (overall lighter apeparance.)