The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[Joca13]

Hi,

A question for Nicalandia.

FBCM(m) x FBCM(f) -> in 25 eggs , two chicks are completely white (yellow fluff when chicks), feathered white shanks
- its posssible for them to be something other than white Marans? (recessive white?)

FBCM (m) x FBCM (f) (different strain for the above)-> in 15 eggs, one chick with partridge like fluff ( dark stripe from head to tail with lateral white stripes in the back)
- possibly golden salmon?

Thank you, I love this thread....

 

[Nero70002]

What breeds of chickens have the longer tails that aren’t the phoenixes? I love the long tail on my EE and was wondering what her parents might have been. Maybe EE x ? She also has long thin green legs. Also what would I call her patterns? She’s also starting to get a few small mahogany colored feathers on her head

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[JacinLarkwell]

What breeds of chickens have the longer tails that aren’t the phoenixes? I love the long tail on my EE and was wondering what her parents might have been. Maybe EE x ? She also has long thin green legs. Also what would I call her patterns? She’s also starting to get a few small mahogany colored feathers on her head

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Wow, she looks a ton like some of the phoenixes that I used to hatch out colorwise, and her tail is exactly the same shape as some of my better females.

Sumatra and Yokohama also have longer tails. My isabel leghorn hens had decent tails too.

 

[nicalandia]

Hi,

A question for Nicalandia.

FBCM(m) x FBCM(f) -> in 25 eggs , two chicks are completely white (yellow fluff when chicks), feathered white shanks
- its posssible for them to be something other than white Marans? (recessive white?)

Its likely Wheaten. Wheaten has been hiding on BCM lines for generations. ER/eWh can look identical to ER/ER and hide on lines until two ER/eWh come together

 

[NatJ]

What breeds of chickens have the longer tails that aren’t the phoenixes? I love the long tail on my EE and was wondering what her parents might have been. Maybe EE x ? She also has long thin green legs. Also what would I call her patterns? She’s also starting to get a few small mahogany colored feathers on her head

Leghorn hens can have long tails like that. Some Easter Eggers have long tails like that too. I think quite a few Easter Eggers have had Leghorns mixed in to help them lay better. So she probably does not have a Leghorn mother or father, but maybe some Leghorn great-grandparents or something like that.

 

[Joca13]

Its likely Wheaten. Wheaten has been hiding on BCM lines for generations. ER/eWh can look identical to ER/ER and hide on lines until two ER/eWh come together

Really? I thought that wheaten chicks had white spots on their heads. And these didn't. I guess we'll se when they start to feather.


What about the second question? Any ideias?

 

[NatJ]

Really? I thought that wheaten chicks had white spots on their heads. And these didn't. I guess we'll se when they start to feather.

https://www.thechickhatchery.com/product/french-wheaten-marans/
This hatchery has a photo with lots of Wheaten Marans chicks, if you want to compare appearance.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/wheaten-marans-pullets-or-roos.645893/
And this thread has a nice photo of two Wheaten Marans chicks.

 

[NagemTX]

Yokohama is one of the other longtails. It has a pea comb and yellow legs so that could be the cross. I almost went with them for my longtail EE project but wanted to keep slate legs so I ruled them out.

 

[nicalandia]

Hi,

A question for Nicalandia.

FBCM (m) x FBCM (f) (different strain for the above)-> in 15 eggs, one chick with partridge like fluff ( dark stripe from head to tail with lateral white stripes in the back)
- possibly golden salmon?

Thank you, I love this thread....

Pictures please. As far as I am aware there is no Partridge eb allele on Marans, just Extended black(BBS/Cuckoo), Birchen(Birchen and Black Copper) and Wheaten(Wheaten and Black Tail), so I find this very unusual

 

[Nero70002]

Yokohama is one of the other longtails. It has a pea comb and yellow legs so that could be the cross. I almost went with them for my longtail EE project but wanted to keep slate legs so I ruled them out.

Yeah, I can definitely see that as an option for a parent or grandparent, also with the coloring