**UPDATED** 09/10/2010 PAGE 7 Brown Houdan Bantam PICS!

[Illia]

Well first, I'm betting it's a boy. . . Why? Because normally any partridge, BBR, or related color like that has nice red boys, and "she" is getting some red feathers popping in.

Second, beautiful!! S/he really is an interesting fluke. Houdans should have slate/grey legs, yes?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

on the boy comment, LOL Although, with my "luck" it will be!

My mottleds have pink with mottled legs.

My white has mostly white with some faint mottling on her legs..

 

[blackclownfish16]

Hopefully I'm this thread isn't tooooo old

I got plenty of chicks just like her in the first batch of Mottled Houdan Egg's I hatched. They do grow up to look mottled but with red hackles and random red feather's throughout. Not a pattern I enjoyed. The fact that this come from two perfect mottled parents is always a surprise. In fact it's a big reason I decided not to work with Mottled Houdan's anymore. Hope that helps.

Tucker

 

[blackclownfish16]

Hopefully I'm this thread isn't tooooo old

I got plenty of chicks just like her in the first batch of Mottled Houdan Egg's I hatched. They do grow up to look mottled but with red hackles and random red feather's throughout. Not a pattern I enjoyed. The fact that this come from two perfect mottled parents is always a surprise. In fact it's a big reason I decided not to work with Mottled Houdan's anymore. Hope that helps.

Tucker

 

[RAREROO]

Any of you think it may be the recessive auburn color like found in Auburn Javas that has recently popped back up over the last couple years ?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I've hatched out LOTS of mottleds and one in about 50 is white. This is the first brown I've had. It's still looking about the same as far as the color goes. I'll have to get some pics tomorrow or this weekend...

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I'm not familiar with that....could be???

 

[RAREROO]

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I'm not familiar with that....could be???

If you find the Java Thread, there are some pics of them in there. If the do end up being mottled then they may be Spilt Auburn ( Carrying 2 copies of Mottleing and 1 copy of Auburn) Like with Auburn Javas, if they are split they will look like auburns as chicks and while they are young, but they will mature to be black. But if the bird was also carring two copies of the mottling gene, then they could mature to be mottled instead of black. I wonder if that may be possibly what you have there in your bird. If so and you end up with a pair that are the same ( split Auburn) and if you breed them together, you should get a small percentage of pure auburns that will breed true. At least that's how it works in Javas.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Here is an updated picture of HIM I took today....he's in with all of my other babies...

HE is for sale, BTW. My hubby said no more "projects."

I'll be posting him in the sale section shortly...

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Awww

But he's pretty!