Throw Back Project.

[MysteryChicken]

She could be a splash wheaten.

Both my pullets have the white speckles in their hackles. Seems to be too organized to be splash though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Getting update pictures of the pullet I'm gonna be using for the project. She's now 15 weeks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's Pea, at 15 weeks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

One particular trait I want seen in the chicks, is a clear upright posture.

 

[NatJ]

She could be a splash wheaten.

Both my pullets have the white speckles in their hackles. Seems to be too organized to be splash though.

Splash only affects black.

So she could be (genetically) a wheaten chicken with black speckles in the hackles. And then splash (two copies of the blue gene) turns those black bits into white bits. Dominant White could do the same thing, turning black into white without affecting the red & gold shades.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Splash only affects black.

So she could be (genetically) a wheaten chicken with black speckles in the hackles. And then splash (two copies of the blue gene) turns those black bits into white bits. Dominant White could do the same thing, turning black into white without affecting the red & gold shades.

I will find out once I start breeding them.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Buffy, seems to be another Red Wheaten Columbian. She's getting in a black tail.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's a side view of one of my Cracker hens.

Here's Pea.

I have nothing else better to do right now, so I'm comparing similarities.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Pea, also seems to look like she's not gonna be very big, or she's just slower to grow.

 

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The Malays that are gonna be used for the project. They recently turned 5 months old.