I got her at a sorta-kinda-local feed store, and they say they get all their chicks from Mt. Healthy. Her legs as a chick were yellow with black splotches which slowly took over the yellow as she grew. Now they are a glossy coal black in front and a less glossy charcoal grey in back. She is the most people friendly of my April chicks, so she won't mind much if I check the bottoms when I go to collect their eggs and top off their feed bins, thanks.
I could care less if she is in any way 'pure' either, I was buying Easter Eggers, remember? So show quality was nowhere near my mind. I'm just curious as to what she IS. They were selling BAs as well, I forget if Jerseys were also on that list. I am assuming that a previous customer misplaced her into the EE bin while choosing their own chicks. She is only 23 weeks old, so I'm not sure if she is even full size yet.
She laid her first egg yesterday, BTW, it was a medium brown.
Her's is the one on the left.
That egg looks about the same color as the eggs laid by my nonstandard BAs. The only other difference between BJGs and BAs that I have heard is the BJG hens have some white on their face from ear to beak. My girls do not have that. Too many genes and I don't know which are dominant
At 23 weeks they are not full grown and BJGs are said to be slow to mature to full size (which is why they didn't not succeed as meat birds even though they are big). You'll just have to wait and see how big they get
Araucana (at least the APA version) is not bearded. How would using one in a cross create a bearded bird? Or are you using the Araucana only to get the blue gene?
