Very unusual chick, Guinea / chicken hybrid!!

[Kev]

Yeah I was aiming for NN hybrids.... I'm going to keep trying LOL. The peacock seems to be too young as nothing fertile, so hopefully next year...

Awww. Please keep posting pictures, they are always wonderful!

 

[ColesCreek]

I have got heaps of different bird locked up together making hybrids

so far I have
4 eggs from chicken x quails
6 eggs from call dewarf ducks x seb geese
3 eggs from palm urkey x sebright

I hope to try a black swan x whistling duck next

 

[bemba]

Awww. Please keep posting pictures, they are always wonderful!

Yep will do.... Second one is out and drying off, looks very similar to a partridge chicken chick.

 

[rollyard]

It looks like the black gene from the black barred father has expressed in your latest hybrid. Very interesting.

 

[bemba]

Yes it looks identical to a Cuckoo colour chicken chick, will be interesting to see how that pattern comines with the guinea pattern! Should be a very interesting looking bird! Second hybrid is up and running.... both together in a brooder and are very tame! I like that there are 2 as my older hybrids really do prefer to hang with each other rather than the chickens or Guineas. They are getting more stocky and more colourful as they age.

 

[rollyard]

Hope the second hybrid this latest hatch does ok & you find time to post a pic of same.

How old are the earlier bred hybrids now?

 

[bemba]

Yes they are both very lively and doing great! Here is a pic of the second one....

 

[bemba]

The adult hybrids are doing great also... they are about 15 months old now......

 

[ColesCreek]

I have got heaps of different bird locked up together making hybrids

so far I have
4 eggs from chicken x quails
6 eggs from call dewarf ducks x seb geese
3 eggs from palm urkey x sebright

I hope to try a black swan x whistling duck next

To add to this I am hoping for some incompletely autosomal dominant hybrids with more symmetrical colours also a few duclair mutation in the mix (d/d) - (D+/-):- md/md, Bl/bl+ li/li, e+/e+, Bl/bl+ m^d/m^d, Li+/?, D+/d

Will post heaps more soon for all the specialist hybrid lovers here

 

[chooks4life]

Very interesting Bemba, your older hybrids are looking good too.