what the heck?! this is CRAZY!!

[wjallen05]

So, I set 16 eggs in the incubator. I candled a few days later and 2 of them were not fertile. So, I tossed those 2 and it left me with 14 eggs. They hatched yesterday and during the night. I woke up this morning to 15 fluffy chicks... but the weirdest thing... one of them is BLACK!!! These are out of my White (236) Leghorn hens and Rhode Island Red rooster. ALL the chicks are white and then there is this black one. What the heck?!?!

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[FenDruadin]

You have a Brownie in your house! Remember those old tales about "little people" who come out at night and do helpful things around the house? Well, apparently your "Brownie" is a little black hen with more children than she knows what to do with, ROFL

That really is amazing. Here's what I think happened: One of your eggs was a double-yolker. Another of your eggs contained a mutant E/E gene (actually, I don't know much about chicken genetics--E/E is the extended black gene in ducks).

How cool. And weird.

 

[Emilys3guppies]

I know nothing of genetics...I just wanted to chime in at how amazing that is!!!

Did you suspect that one of them was a double yolker?

 

[WitksChicks]

Well, every family has its black sheep.

Congrats on your new additions.

 

[GreenGoddess]

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Ummmm.... you had 16 eggs, minus the two that you threw out.. ok... I understand that part.. those were the 14 normal looking chicks.. the 15th was the black one??? I'm confused!!!

Goddess

 

[LarryPQ]

math doesn't make sense...world crumbling...

 

[barred-rocks-rock]

thats amazing

 

[GreenGoddess]

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Must be that dang global warming... Now it's destroying math as we knew it!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Goddess

 

[MaggieRae]

WAHHHTTT?!

Well, I must say that sounds quite peculiar.

 

[wjallen05]

I am 100% dead-serious!! It is the craziest thing!! Yes, I blame it in Global Warming as well. Or is it Global Cooling??