Happy Easter everyone.
Since hatching the first white chick I had more eggs in the bator and had set several more and all that have hatched were normal colors so kinda just thought the first one was just a fluke. I even traded a buddy of mine 2 sets of english orp eggs away equaling about 16-18 with about half being from this pair. So maybe I shouldn't have said "breaking news" LOL but was just very excited when I opened the bator and found 2 more oddballs and wanted to share with the community. Now Im curious to what my buddy will hatch and asked him to keep me posted. Also I already promised him and made arrangements for Mrs. Buttersworth (mother of the oddballs) to take the 6 hour journey to go live with him for a few months on April 15th as she will b paired with his very impressive English lav roo that I recently posted pics of and we will b splitting their chicks. She has the heavily exaggerated skirt gene that we felt was the only thing his gorgeous lav roo was missing. Both r huge birds so we r combining efforts to try to improve the English lavs here in the US closer to the English SOP. I have more of her eggs in the bator and will b collecting all she lays up to this date so this may b my last oddball chicks for a while but feel its well worth the sacrifice to improve the English lav birds here in the US as I gotta say and forgive me English lav owners but his roo is about the only English solid lav that I have even seen pics of here in the US that I was actually impressed with. They seem to b going the way of the lemon cukoo Orps, IMO, which is a shame.
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Julie I did look at the mottled looking chicks feet. There is some mottling on one of its upper legs and its just on one side and goes almost half way down. When I hatched the white chick b4 he was solid yellow but feathered in solid white so far. This new yellow chick has a small black speck on the top of its head, a black spot on its back and if u pull its right wing out there is a very large black spot where the wing connects to the body that u don't really see unless it stretches its wings. Anyways decided to check its legs too and no mottling there but it kinda puts me in mind of a paint silkie chick in color. This is all very strange to me as I swear the adults look pure and don't have a single white feather. All of the others chicks I have hatched from this pair have been black with white chest and some having a lil white on the face. A small amount have been blue but same combination. Someone posted a pic of very dark black chicks with solid black feet and got to say I have only hatched one this season that was that dark but it has white toes. The parents and most the offspring I have been hatching have more of a penguin pattern with half to most the toes being lite colored with speckled to dark beaks but not near as much white down as mottled chick in question. That may just be my birds tho. Who knows maybe I need to check my feed bags for GMO's LOL. 
