Unique chick?

[Chickycammy]

I have a mixed group of pure breeds. One Buff Orpington Rooster, the hens are Sapphire Gem, RiR, Black Sex-link and Americana. I had this chick hatch from a very dark brown egg and I can't get over the colors on it!

I'm trying to figure out who the Mom could be so I could breed more. Any idea?

 

[ella2025]

I have a mixed group of pure breeds. One Buff Orpington Rooster, the hens are Sapphire Gem, RiR, Black Sex-link and Americana. I had this chick hatch from a very dark brown egg and I can't get over the colors on it!

I'm trying to figure out who the Mom could be so I could breed more. Any idea?

Very dark brown sounds unlikely for the breeds you mentioned. Do you have a picture of the egg it hatched from?

 

[Chickycammy]

Very dark brown sounds unlikely for the breeds you mentioned. Do you have a picture of the egg it hatched from?

Here is the eggs when they were hatching. The arrow is the egg it hatched from.

 

[ella2025]

Here is the eggs when they were hatching. The arrow is the egg it hatched from.

Thats not super dark for brown egg layers. Id say Rhode Island red but I can't say for sure.

 

[Chickycammy]

The light makes it seem brighter but I have been getting darker eggs then I expected.

Thank you! I hope it stays unique when the feathers come in.

 

[AinaWGSD]

The Americana looks to be laying blue/green eggs (based on the pic at hatching) so you can rule her out. I would expect buff orpington/RIR to be more or less solid red chicks so that seems unlikely. That narrows it down to sapphire gem or black sexlink.

 

[Chickycammy]

The Americana looks to be laying blue/green eggs (based on the pic at hatching) so you can rule her out. I would expect buff orpington/RIR to be more or less solid red chicks so that seems unlikely. That narrows it down to sapphire gem or black sexlink.

That's why I was wondering. I've hatched before with the same flock but this is the first with this colors and patterns. Normally they're black with yellow on wings or solid yellow/orange. I'm obsessed with this little one. So beautiful

 

[ella2025]

The Americana looks to be laying blue/green eggs (based on the pic at hatching) so you can rule her out. I would expect buff orpington/RIR to be more or less solid red chicks so that seems unlikely. That narrows it down to sapphire gem or black sexlink.

Yes, I agree. I also thought it was weird that rir mixed can have the stripe on the back but the others seemed unlikely.