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Totally agree with you! I have had some color variations before in chicks but the blue greys seem completely different from the little black chick. Maybe it is a color variation? I’ll post a picture when they at the tween stageMy wish is that people that sell eggs and chicks are forthcoming if their birds are purebred or mixes. I also wish that people would keep breeds separate from 3 weeks before and all through the breeding season.
That said, I've only had one breed and one variety of that breed anywhere on the property for perhaps 6 years or so. I continue to get sports of colors and other aberrations from time to time - wrong feather, earlobe, leg and eggshell colors.
These are the correct color and right out of the hatcher a couple weeks ago.
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I currently have one batch of chicks (from the same flock the very next hatch) that has a bird with lots of brown feathers and three more that look like Anconas (more white than black)
I imagine some people don't believe me when I tell them that is all I raise.
The breed was brought back from extinction in the 1980s and they assembled 4 varieties from various colors of landrace fowl in Catalonia.
I'm sure there are genes of all sorts of colors that will crop up from time to time.
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